PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) urged the Indian and Manipur governments to respect the human rights of small farmers and indigenous peoples in Manipur, India.
More than 9,400 hectares of Amazonian rainforest has been removed for two oil palm plantations in the Peruvian region of Ucayali linked to Czech entrepreneur Dennis Melka.
Ce projet colossal dont le maître d'oeuvre est le géant singapourien Olam génère la controverse: ses défenseurs y voient une promesse de diversification d'une économie de rente pétrolière à bout de souffle; ses détracteurs critiquent son impact environnemental, social et culturel.
La Saskatchewan a lancé une consultation publique en ligne sur la loi qui régit la propriété des terres agricoles de la province pour déterminer entre autres si les régimes de pension et les fonds d'investissement devraient avoir le droit de détenir de tels titres de propriété.
O coro de lamúrias dos camponeses do norte de Moçambique, que travam batalhas para manter as suas terras perante a apetência dos investidores estrangeiras, prevalece.
The master plan of Prosavana, a large agricultural project to be implemented in three northern provinces of Mozambique, is due to be approved by the government by the end of 2015, the project’s coordinator said in Maputo.
The resistance to ProSavana stems from the fact that it aims to integrate peasants in a production process which is exclusively controlled by large TNCs and multilateral financing institutions.
Neither “global land grab” nor “South-South cooperation” discourses do justice to the complexity we witness since Chinese investments in the Brazilian soybean agribusiness have begun taking shape in recent years.
Après trois années de résistance et de grincement de dents, le projet Senhuile serait prêt à renoncer à 10 000 ha des 26 000 soustraits de la réserve du Ndiaël.
The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.
A 100,000-acre sugar farm around 300 km east of Luanda is a partnership between state-oil company Sonangol, Brazil's Odebrecht and Damar, an Angolan company owned by Vice President Manuel Vicente and top state security officials.
Any action by the PNG government to address the SABL land grab and illegal logging is very welcome - but landowners have been waiting two years, not six months as the Chief Secretary claims
The special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies demonstrates that political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed.
A Chinese-backed company’s dealings with a family were put under the blowtorch yesterday at the start of a Supreme Court trial into the collapse of an $8 million deal to buy farmland in Western Australia
«Le protocole d’accord, c’est de la mascarade. C’était initié par le gouverneur de la région de Saint-Louis pour dire que les populations sont d’accord sur le projet alors que ce n’est pas le cas».
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