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Mali : les victimes d'accaparement des terres
- RFI
- 19 September 2014
Au Mali, l’accaparement des terres est un fléau contre lequel les autorités sont décidées à lutter.
Honduras: Nueva Armenia y su lucha por la vida
- Nicaragua y mas
- 19 September 2014
La comunidad garífuna de Nueva Armenia, a pocos kilómetros de La Ceiba, en el litoral caribeño de Honduras, está luchando valientemente contra la expansión de la palma africana. Desalojos, detenciones y juicios amañados no han podido detener el proceso de recuperación de sus territorios ancestrales.
Declaración Foro-Taller Agrocombustibles
- OFRANEH
- 19 September 2014
La expansión frenética y masiva de los monocultivos en América Latina, colocan en condiciones precarias a campesinos, pueblos indígenas y negros; además de generar un enorme impacto ambiental.
Karuturi fails to comply with SEBI
- Business Standard
- 18 September 2014
Move to seek an extension of AGM date comes after a series of issues it has been facing at its expansive roses farms in Kenya and allegations of land grab at its ambitious agriculture foray in Ethiopia.
Argentina: Conflicto en Iberá: cortaran la ruta nacional N° 118 en reclamo de tierras
- Corrientes Hoy
- 18 September 2014
Organizaciones campesinas, sindicales, sociales y ecologistas piden la titularidad de las tierras de la Fundación San Nicolás (intervenida por el gobierno provincial) y reclaman el fin del avance de las plantaciones forestales de Harvard y otras empresas.
Ethiopian Government Campaign of Murder in Gambela
- Anywaa Survival Organisation
- 18 September 2014
September 11: eight ethnic Majengir murdered by in cold blood by Ethiopian highlanders in Godere District, Gambela as tensions between settlers and indigenous peoples escalate.
La déforestation illégale peut nuire à la majorité des produits de consommation
- IPS
- 17 September 2014
La plus grande menace pour les forêts vient aujourd'hui de l'agriculture commerciale
FGCCC calls for expanded role of sovereign funds in agro investments
- Arab News
- 17 September 2014
Secretary General of the Federation of GCC Chambers Abdulrahim Hasan Naqi has stressed the need to expand the role of sovereign funds to have investments in agriculture.
Nigeria: Group announces $2.2m rice farming investment
- This Day
- 17 September 2014
WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation ‎in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
Rapport : "La faim un business comme un autre"
- CCFD-TerreSolidaire
- 16 September 2014
Comment la nouvelle alliance du G8 menace la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique. Un rapport publié par le CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Oxfam France et Action contre la Faim
Not so mega? The risky business of large-scale public-private partnerships in African agriculture
- Oxfam
- 16 September 2014
Oxfam policy adviser Robin Willoughby shrugs off the big ag groupthink and argues that the current trend of mega projects in African agriculture is a risky and unproven way to help poor farmers.
Chinese investment fund to tip billions into Australian farm projects
- ABC
- 16 September 2014
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
La lutte des communautés pour défendre leur territoire
- Bulletin Nyéléni
- 16 September 2014
L’accaparement des terres arables mondiales s’étend de jour en jour. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de l’exploitation pour des entreprises agricoles mais aussi l’extractivisme.
Ethiopian government campaign of murder in Gambela
- ASO
- 16 September 2014
The cause of this high level insecurity and loss of innocent peoples' lives is a government policy to take away the indigenous communities land and give it to so called investors both foreigners and Ethiopian highlanders.
Interview with Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation
- African Agribusiness
- 15 September 2014
AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.