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L'autre guerre d'Ukraine
- Mediapart
- 12 May 2015
La partie la plus lucrative des conditions imposées par le Fonds Monétaire International réside dans la suppression du moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles.
Conglomerados económicos “comiéndose” a países enteros
- REL-Uita
- 12 May 2015
Compran enormes superfícies de tierras adecuadas para la agricultura
Con tres heridas
- Palabre-ando
- 12 May 2015
Denuncia de cómo las haciendas agrícolas israelís, ilegal e injustamente instaladas en asentamientos en Cisjordania, son un impedimento absoluto para que la población palestina de la zona pueda sacar sus vidas adelante.
Exigimos a Suspensão e Invalidação Imediata da “Auscultação Pública do Plano Director do ProSavana”
- ADECRU
- 12 May 2015
As auscultações surgem como resposta formal e cosmética dos três governos às irrefutáveis críticas e fundamentadas demandas das comunidades do Corredor de Nacala, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos do campo, que dizem não ao ProSavana.
China's COFCO, CIC to set up venture to run agricultural businesses
- Reuters
- 12 May 2015
China's largest grain trader COFCO is setting up a venture with sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) to control COFCO's investments in Dutch trader Nidera and Noble Group Ltd's agribusiness.
Nourrir la planète, le défi de l’Exposition universelle de Milan
- Le Temps
- 12 May 2015
La société civile du Sud s’alarme des «fausses solutions» comme l'agrobusiness ou l’«agriculture climato-intelligente»
Dogged by abuse allegations, Mitr Phol pulls out of Cambodia
- Bangkok Post
- 11 May 2015
Mitr Phol Sugar Corp has pulled out of its three plantations in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province after years of allegations about illegal business practices and human-rights abuses, a media report said Monday.
Chinese ripples in the paddy fields of central Myanmar
- Mizzima
- 11 May 2015
The water-rich region of Myanmar has become the target of land speculation, driven in part by local Myanmar-Chinese merchants and Chinese speculators and businesspeople.
Palm sustainability group puts expansion ban on Golden Agri unit
- Reuters
- 11 May 2015
A palm oil industry body orders one of the world's major producers to stop buying or developing new plantations in Indonesia, in a dispute seen as a test case on expansion by agribusiness firms versus local land rights.
Report looks at dark side of sugar concessions
- Anadolu Agency
- 11 May 2015
More than 2,000 families have been affected and at least 3,000 hectares misappropriated for logging by three sugar plantations in the north Cambodian province of Oddar Meanchey, according to a report released Monday
Duas associações moçambicanas exigem que governo rejeite projeto para vale do rio Lúrio
- Lusa
- 11 May 2015
ADECRU e GRAIN exigiram que o governo de Moçambique rejeite um projeto de desenvolvimento do vale do rio Lúrio (nordeste), devido aos "destruidores e fatais impactos na vida de mais de 500 mil pessoas e biodiversidade".
A development fairytale or a global land rush?
- IPS
- 11 May 2015
The land rush unleashed around the world to own and exploit Earth’s natural bounty is not only fierce and unfair, but increasingly fatal, with lands, homes and forests bulldozed and cleared for foreign investors.
Ethiopia: Midroc announces 8 billion birr expansion for Midroc Gold, Elfora
- Addis Fortune
- 11 May 2015
Midroc's subsidiary Elfora Agro-industry Plc plans to cultivate alfalfa on 300ha of land at Nettle and Shallo in the Oromia Region with an objective of producing 600 tonnes of forage a month.
Governo do Distrito de Malema persegue e ameaça camponeses que rejeitaram o ProSavana
- ADECRU
- 11 May 2015
A ADECRU que acompanha com preocupação os contornos das reuniões de auscultação pública do Plano Director do ProSavana manifesta profunda indignação e condenação as ameaças, intimidação e perseguição aos camponeses e comunidades locais
Stalking and intimidation of the Malema district administration　マレマ郡行政府が、ProSAVANA事業を拒否した農民らを付きまとい、脅迫
- ADECRU
- 11 May 2015
マレマ郡行政府の主催で行われた4月28日の公聴会を、途中でボイコットしたProSAVANA事業を拒否するムトゥアリの農民やコミュニティが、同郡行政府の傘下にいるムトゥアリ行政ポスト長、首長ムショナ（Muchona）とSDAE（郡経済活動振興部）関係者らによって付きまとわれ、脅迫の標的となっている。