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公開質問状　プロサバンナ事業における「市民社会の関与プロジェクト」及び JICA契約現地企業MAJOL社について
- 25 January 2016
posted by: Mozambiquekaihatsu published: January 25 2016
Sénégal : Des terres dépossedées au profit des riches
- Sud Online
- 25 January 2016
La réforme foncière en cours au Sénégal cherche à doter le pays d’un outil qui puisse préserver la paix sociale de manière durable, en évitant certains pièges qui risquent de précipiter les terres entre les mains de l’agrobusiness.
Israël veut s’approprier des terres agricoles en Cisjordanie
- Medias-Presse-Info
- 24 January 2016
Le gouvernement israélien est sur le point de déclarer « terres d’État » 150 hectares de terres situées près de la ville palestinienne de Jéricho en Cisjordanie.
Preliminary analysis of the JICA primary documents
- No! to Landgrab, Japan
- 24 January 2016
Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports
Poland: State ag land sales to be suspended
- USDA FAS
- 22 January 2016
Polish Ministry of Agriculture proposes new legislation suspending for 5 years sales of the state owned agricultural land. The proposed legislation aims to strengthen the protection of agricultural land in Poland from speculative purchases by domestic and foreign buyers
Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
- OWAP
- 22 January 2016
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation.
Largest halal beef farm to be built in Kazakhstan
- Global Meat
- 22 January 2016
Dubai-based company AMK Metal Fzco is to construct a livestock farm for 20,000 head of cattle and a meat processing plant for the production of 5,000 tonnes of high-quality beef in Kazakhstan.
Appel à la mobilisation pour la Caravane ouest-africaine pour la terre, l’eau et les semences
- CGLTE
- 22 January 2016
La Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau – Afrique de l’Ouest vous invite à rejoindre et soutenir la Caravane ouest-africaine pour la terre, l’eau et les semences, qui mobilisera 15 pays de la sous-région en mars 2016
Call for mobilization: West African caravan for land, water and seeds
- GCLWS
- 22 January 2016
The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa invites you to join the West African Caravan for Land, Water and Seeds, which will mobilize 15 countries of the sub-region in March 2016
Chinese buy big WA farms in $35 million deal
- West Australian
- 21 January 2016
A Chinese company with strong links to the family of Li Ka-shing, one of Asia’s richest men, is on the verge of securing farms covering almost 70,000ha after the biggest single offering of freehold land in Western Australia’s history.
Camponeses moçambicanos preocupados com investimentos externos
- VOA
- 20 January 2016
Temem que suas terras sejam entregues aos mega-investimentos
Chinese firm to enhance food security in Nigeria
- Xinhua
- 20 January 2016
A Chinese firm in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State has set up an integrated poultry farm in order to focus on enhancing the nation's food security through commercial agricultural production.
Chinese investment in Australian macadamia farms on the rise, as demand for native nut soars
- ABC
- 20 January 2016
Chinese investors are buying up macadamia orchards in Queensland and New South Wales to protect their own supply
P1.3 B ready for investment in Maguindanao
- Philstar
- 20 January 2016
The Gintong Ani Corporation of Singapore aims to initially put up a 5,000-hectare oil palm plantation in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao.
Protecting community lands & resources in Africa: Grassroots advocates’ strategies & lessons
- Namati
- 20 January 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.