This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
“El conflicto de Ucrania es utilizado para vender tierras a los grandes consorcios”
Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Un alto porcentaje de la actividad bananera está en manos de empresas transnacionales.
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights.
Selon le ministre sénégalais de l’Agriculture, le Sénégal ne doit « pas accepter un marché foncier rural car la terre pourrait être achetée par d’autres et les Sénégalais se replieraient dans les grandes villes. »
La ley de garantía a las inversiones viola un principio básico de la Constitución, el de la igualdad. Concede un "congelamiento" de impuestos de hasta veinte años a quienes hagan grandes inversiones.
What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.
The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.
Une bataille judiciaire a été déclenchée entre l'ancien directeur général de Senhuile, Benyamin Dummai, et Tampieri Financial Group.
What kind of role should the private sector have in the post-2015 fight against poverty and food insecurity? And how should EU governments ensure it is genuinely inclusive and responsible? Yaekob Metena explores the possibilities.
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