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«Si les populations se battent, l’accaparement des terres s’arrêtera»
- Librération
- 27 Mar 2015
Interview avec Francis Ngang, secrétaire général d'Inades-Formation, au Forum Social Mondial
APC denounces World Bank’s role in global land grabs
- APC
- 27 Mar 2015
The Asian Peasant Coalition denounces the World Bank on its “16th Conference on Land and Poverty” that brings together corporations, governments and some civil society groups
Naivasha’s Karuturi seals debt buyout deal, planning comeback
- The Standard
- 27 Mar 2015
Deposed Indian flower firm is planning a major comeback to Kenya next month, after entering a debt deal that would enable it retake its vast farms currently under control of its creditor CFC Stanbic Bank.
Burmese leaders outed by Global Witness over alleged land grabs
- The Diplomat
- 27 Mar 2015
A new report reveals the extent of land grabbing in Myanmar, especially along the border with China.
Georgia to curb foreign land sales
- Global Voices
- 27 Mar 2015
A new bill to make it harder for foreigners to buy farmland is part of the current ruling coalition’s move away from the open-door investment policy of the last government.
Indigenous rights ‘denied’
- Phnom Penh Post
- 27 Mar 2015
Land concessions and economic development have trampled efforts by Cambodia's indigenous communities to secure customary lands. In 2015, a report says, 267 Economic Land Concessions occupied 2,196,628 hectares, or more than 60 per cent of Cambodia’s arable land.
#NoLandNoLife Groups to declare 29 March as “Day of the Landless”, launch anti-land grabbing campaign
- PAN AP
- 27 Mar 2015
The PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) together with farmers, farmworkers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, rural women and youth across Asia Pacific declare 29 March as the “Day of the Landless” aims to highlight land and resource grabbing as human rights issue.
Phoenix Africa: A boxer, a grandee and an ex-soldier seek $27m for rice-producing business in Sierra Leone
- Independent
- 27 Mar 2015
An Oxford University boxing blue, a former Shell chairman, and an ex-SAS commanding officer are looking to raise $26.6m to build the biggest food company in Ebola-scarred Sierra Leone.
«La nouvelle alliance, initiative de la banque Mondiale, est en train de favoriser l’accaparement des terres »
- Flamme d'Afrique
- 26 Mar 2015
Une interview avec ZAKARIA SAMBAKHE, de ACTIONAID
FSM 2015 : « La voix des sans voix » dénonce l’accaparement des terres
- WADR
- 26 Mar 2015
Le droit coutumier et traditionnel sur la terre doit primer sur le titre foncier selon l’ONG No-Vox « la voix des sans voix » qui dénonce l’accaparement des terres.
Retour sur l’action du 25 Mars à Bruxelles contre les accaparements de terre soutenus par la Banque mondiale
- CADTM
- 26 Mar 2015
Le 25 mars 2015 s’est tenue une action pour dénoncer l’implication de la Banque mondiale dans le phénomène des accaparements de terre
Why the land grab in Ethiopia doesn't benefit the indigenous people? PART 1
- ESAT
- 26 Mar 2015
ESAT's WWH Show interviews Obang Metho on land grabs by Karuturi and other companies in Ethiopia.
NGOs criticise World Bank involvement in agricultural land grabbing
- Brussels Times
- 26 Mar 2015
Belgian NGOs organised a protest on the occasion of the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty which is taking place in Washington, DC this week.
Alternative investment strategies: Investing in farmland
- Rabo Farm
- 26 Mar 2015
Presentation in Amsterdam
Cambodian land grabs threaten traditional communities
- VOA
- 26 Mar 2015
Seoung Sarat says he lost his right leg in 2009 because of a conflict with a company that was granted his land by the government to use for large-scale farming.