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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.
Landgrabbing continues unabated worldwide
- Nyéléni Newsletter
- 15 September 2014
This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.
Women agricultural workers crave fair working conditions
- FIAN
- 15 September 2014
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.
Bulgarian REIT Advance Terrafund sells 2,336 ha of farmland in Jan-Aug
- SeeNews
- 15 September 2014
Bulgarian real estate investment trust Advance Terrafund said on Monday it sold 2,336 hectares of farmland.
Chinese fund to splash $3bn on Australian agriculture
- Weekly Times
- 15 September 2014
A new $3 billion fund jointly initiated by the Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund and Yuhu Agriculture Investment Pty Ltd. is planning to invest $3 billion capital in various projects in Australia.
85 squatter farmers face arrest
- Bangkok Post
- 15 September 2014
Authorities plan to arrest about 85 farmers who have occupied a large tract of land, formerly an oil palm plantation, in Plai Phraya district of Krabi today.
Sénégal : Accaparement du foncier, et des espaces cultivables ménace contre l'autosuffisance alimentaire
- SudOnline
- 13 September 2014
Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.
La division des terres agricoles menace la sécurité alimentaire
- IPS
- 11 September 2014
"L'acquisition de terres à grande échelle non seulement réduit les terres disponibles pour les populations locales, mais aussi ce qui est disponible aux populations locales doit être encore subdivisé," indique Allan Moshi
Le commerce mondial, moteur de la déforestation illégale
- Le Monde
- 11 September 2014
Près de la moitié de la déforestation dans les pays tropicaux s’explique par la conversion illégale de terres en exploitations agricoles à vocation commerciale, selon une vaste étude publiée par l’organisation américaine Forest Trends
Argentina: Campesinos salen a defender a los Esteros de la extranjerización
- Corrientes Hoy
- 11 September 2014
"Hoy tenemos por delante una lucha contra el monocultivo forestal (que goza de subsidios y exenciones impositivas) y la extranjerización de las tierras, como por ejemplo las que le entregaron a Tompkins y a Harvard".