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Kagame woos Indian investment
- East African
- 09 November 2014
Rwanda is pushing for massive irrigation projects to boost agricultural production, where an investment of $200 million is needed for 35,800 hectares of farmland.
40 mil personas de 60 países piden tierras de Marina Cue para familias víctimas de la masacre
- E'a
- 07 November 2014
Se cerrará el viernes 14 de noviembre la campaña que promueve que las tierras de Marina Cue sean para familias víctimas de la masacre. Las organizaciones nuevamente pedirán una reunión con el presidente Horacio Cartes.
Campesinos de Sierra Leona luchan por sus tierras
- Telesur TV
- 07 November 2014
Entre las multinacionales y los campesinos de Sierra Leona se libra una batalla por las tierras, teleSUR te muestra cómo ese país azotado por el ébola tiene luchas paralelas.
Telling family farming fairy tales
- Reuters
- 07 November 2014
A recent comprehensive survey by GRAIN, examining data from around the world, finds that while small farmers feed the world, they are doing so with just 24 percent of the world's farmland.
NGOs say ethnic areas have no ‘virgin lands’
- DVB
- 07 November 2014
The Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF) released a statement on Thursday which slammed Burma’s draft National Land Use Policy for failing to protect small-scale farmers and ethnic minorities.
Sell out African food & farming system
- AEFJN
- 07 November 2014
The current flow of agricultural investment is focused just on export-based industrial agriculture, while smallholders and family agriculture remain deprived of investment.
Australia the largest single beneficiary from PNG rainforest destruction
- Act Now!
- 07 November 2014
Australia is the largest single beneficiary of rampant and unsustainable logging and land grabbing in Papua New Guinea, according to leading community activist group, ACT NOW!
NGOs fear draft land use policy fails to deal with land grabs, farmers’ rights
- Mizzima
- 07 November 2014
Groups say draft law prioritizes and gives special privileges to business investors, which could spark more land grabs and create more land problems within the country.
Tanzania: Prisons, Turkish firm in farming partnership
- Daily News
- 07 November 2014
A Turkish agriculture firm, Tarbim, will invest billions of shillings to establish a modern rice farm at Tanzania Prisons Bagamoyo farm.
Yangon statement on human rights and agribusiness in Southeast Asia released
- FPP
- 07 November 2014
Policies to generate foreign investment and commodity exports are imposing heavy costs on communities, such as land grabs, loss of livelihoods, lack of food security, and degradation of the environment and biodiversity.
In Defence of Land in Melanesia: AidWatch Speaking Tour
- AIDWATCH
- 07 November 2014
In the face of various threats to land, Melanesian are struggling to retain control over Melanesia land. Join us in hearing their stories and learn how you can support their struggle.
Manglares en extinción
- Radio Mundo Real
- 07 November 2014
Caña y palma ponen en riesgo la desprotegida biodiversidad y soberanía alimentaria de Guatemala
Colombia: Aumenta polémica por tema de tierras
- Portafolio
- 06 November 2014
En Bogotá y Villavicencio las discusiones se centraron en el proyecto de ley de las Zidres.
Proyecto de baldíos “acaba con lo poco que quedaba de soberanía campesina” en Colombia
- Minuto 30
- 06 November 2014
Varias organizaciones colombianas e internacionales presentaron un estudio que denuncia un proyecto de Ley impulsado por el Gobierno que, según concluyen, restará tierras a campesinos en favor de grandes empresas.
Swiss banks and institutional investors financing landgrabbing companies
- Bread for All
- 06 November 2014
Report assesses the financial relationships of 17 companies involved in land grabbing, human rights abuses or environmental pollution with 17 selected Swiss banks and institutional investors since January 2011.