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Il land grabbing è neocolonialismo?
- RAI
- 26 June 2014
La corsa alla terra, o land grabbing, è uno dei temi più controversi del momento. Per qualcuno è un'opportunità economica, per altri una forma di sfruttamento.
Canadian firm to launch Shari’ah-compliant farmland investments
- CPI Financial
- 25 June 2014
AGInvest Properties, which owns and manages farmland across Ontario, Canada, has entered into a Shari’ah Advisory agreement with Shariyah Review Bureau to attract Islamic investors in Canada, GCC and elsewhere.
Groupe Louis-Dreyfus en stand-by à Abidjan
- Lettre du Continent
- 25 June 2014
Près de dix-huit mois après sa signature, l'accord entre le Groupe Louis-Dreyfus et les autorités ivoiriennes visant à tripler la production annuelle de riz du pays n'a pas connu l'ombre d'un début de commencement.
The Freetown Declaration
- Green Scenery
- 24 June 2014
180 citizens of Sierra Leone propose measures to combat land grabbing at the National Conference on Land and the Constitution in Freetown.
SiLNoRF and Bread For All release 2014 Annual Monitoring Report on the Addax Bioenergy Project in Sierra Leone
- SiLNoRF
- 24 June 2014
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
Communities protest that UK’s Equatorial Palm Oil is poised to seize land in Liberia
- Global Witness
- 24 June 2014
Members of the Jogbahn Clan will deliver a petition with over 90,000 signatures reminding company that it does not have community consent to expand onto their lands.
Questions to answer for Tate & Lyle in Cambodian land-grabbing action
- food-navigator
- 24 June 2014
This month, one of Britain’s biggest sugar producing companies resigned from a voluntary ethical sugar initiative it founded amid suggestions of illegal land-grabbing.
Survey reveals foreign ownership of farmland on the rise
- The Age
- 24 June 2014
A new survey reports that foreign ownership of Australian farmland grew by 4.7 million hectares in just two-and-a-half years.
Fury over Senegal’s private land buyers
- IRIN
- 24 June 2014
A liberal land regime in Senegal over the decade has favoured large-scale acquisitions of arable land by both foreign and local investors.
El caso Marina Kue y la “masacre de Curuguaty”
- Food First and TNI
- 24 June 2014
El día 15 de junio de 2012, 17 personas—once campesinos y seis policías—murieron durante un operativo fiscal-policial con fines de desalojo, efectuado contra familias campesinas sin tierra que habían ocupado un predio conocido como Marina Kue, en el distrito de Curuguaty de Paraguay.
IFC invests up to $250 million in poultry producer MHP to fuel Ukraine agribusiness
- IFC
- 24 June 2014
The World Bank's IFC is providing $250 million in debt financing to Ukraine's leading poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct, which has a land bank of 320,000 ha in Ukraine and 40,000 ha in Russia.
Rural land grab has unleashed mass dislocation, imposed financial risks on Ethiopia – while benefitting some investors: Case Karuturi
- Ethiopia Observatory
- 24 June 2014
The entire edifice of Karuturi's enterprise, especially the Gambella 300,000 ha, is allegedly founded on corruption (bribery) and too many lies, writes The Ethiopian Observatory.
ActionAid rencontre une entreprise italienne pour lui demander de mettre fin à ses investissements fonciers au Sénégal
- PSO/ActionAid France
- 23 June 2014
ActionAid a rencontré l'entreprise italienne Tampieri Financial Group pour l'appeler à retirer son projet agro-industriel de la région de Ndiael au Nord du Sénégal et lui remettre une pétition signée par 60 000 personnes à travers la planète.
Zambia: Government opposes land allocation to investor
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 23 June 2014
The Central Province government opposes the allocation of 10,000 ha of land in Serenje’s Mphande area by Chief Chibale to Blackstar Investment which might result in over 1,300 people being displaced.
Colombia: Mirando a ver
- Prensa Rural
- 23 June 2014
El Incora y el Incoder, según la investigación de Carlos Salgado y Oxfam, han repartido más de 23 millones de hectáreas, pero nadie sabe en manos de quién está esa tierra.