With vast tracts of rich, black earth but antiquated infrastructure, Ukraine is attracting interest from Chinese companies hoping to meet their nation’s growing demand for grains and meat.
In Dzumajlija there is not enough land, water and space to breed the cows announced by the Indian company Sahara Group
A violent attack on a tea plantation leased by Indian-owned Verdanta Harvest Plc, a subsidiary of the Noida-based Lucky Group, has renewed concerns over Ethiopia’s policy of leasing out large tracts of land to international investors.
La Coalition pour la protection du patrimoine génétique africain a engagé le combat contre les acquisitions massives de terres en Afrique de l’Ouest.
In the face of evidence, the UK and US continue to deny systematic human rights abuses are occurring in the Lower Omo as thousands are displaced for an irrigation scheme.
La dirigencia gremial entiende que el gobierno no ha actuado a la altura de las cirscunstancias
Cross River State has become one of Nigeria’s premier agricultural investment destinations, crowding out smallholder production systems and creating new avenues for rent capture by elites.
For the world’s people to have secure access to the quantity and quality of food needed for a decent life, the land grabs and the development of large, highly mechanized factory farms must stop.
On 10th October, Miguel Galván was stabbed to death in the doorway of his own home in Argentina. Almost one year earlier, Cristian Ferreyra had also been shot and killed in his house. Both men were murdered because they refused to give up their land to multi-national soybean plantation companies.
On Our Land chronicles the experiences of rural communities in Papua New Guinea who are being dispossessed of their land and natural resources through illegal logging operations and exposes the resulting destruction to local communities and the environment.
Colombian and Argentine experts discuss foreign acquisition of land in their countries and whether government efforts to limit the often negative effects of land grabbing are working.
The Brazilian State prosecutor for Pernambuco announced last week that the Federal Public Ministry will launch an investigation into delays in resolving one of the cases highlighted in Oxfam's report.
Au Cameroun, le projet pharaonique et controversé de la société américaine Herakles Farms de planter des palmiers à huile semble avoir tourné court. Et le pdg de la firme a disparu comme par enchantement.
La Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo junto al CELS presentaron ante Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos un informe y petitorio regional de los derechos económicos sociales y culturales.
Ce nouveau numéro de possibles, avec des auteurs du Québec et d’Europe, des milieux universitaires comme de la société civile, explore les racines du phénomène, ses différentes dimensions et enjeux, ainsi que ses multiples formes à travers les continents.
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