• Rubber barons - a Global Witness report
    • Global Witness
    • 12 May 2013

    Rubber Barons shows how vast amounts of land have been acquired for rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos by two of Vietnam's biggest largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG).

  • Tunisie: Pour un mécanisme de partenariat investisseurs-conglomérats agricoles de l'OTD
    • Webmanagercentre
    • 11 May 2013

    "La cession des terres agricoles tunisiennes aux étrangers représente un danger pour la souveraineté de l'Etat et une ingérence dans ses affaires," estime Mohamed Mabrouk de l'Institut tunisien des études stratégiques

  • Uruguay: Marcha en defensa del agua y la tierra contra los mega proyectos
    • Unoticias
    • 10 May 2013

    Los manifestantes exigen que se pare "la entrega de la tierra y los bienes naturales del país a la inversión extranjera que saquea nuestras riquezas, al igual que lo hacen en el resto de nuestro continente y del mundo".

  • The global land grab: The new enclosures
    • Wealth of the Commons
    • 09 May 2013

    Everywhere in Africa the story is more or less the same: communal rights are being grossly interfered with, farming systems upturned, livelihoods decimated, and water use and environments changed in ways which are dubiously sustainable.

  • Liberia's next big war
    • FrontPageAfrica
    • 09 May 2013

    Liberia's silent land war has now become a war of words and placards with tension brewing daily either between individuals and families or companies and tribes or clans.

  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
    • 09 May 2013

    The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people. Most people think these demographic projections, like most of those made over the last half-century, will in fact materialize. But this is unlikely, given the difficulties in expanding the food supply, such as those posed by spreading water shortages and global warming. We are fast outgrowing the earth’s capacity to sustain our increasing numbers.

  • Ethnic activists warn of surge in land grabs after ceasefires
    • Irrawaddy
    • 09 May 2013

    About 40 ethnic activist groups are calling on the government, ethnic militias and the international community to address a surge in land-grabbing, as companies move into Burma’s ethnic regions following recent ceasefire agreements.

  • La concepción instrumental de la política de tierras en Colombia
    • Prensa Rural
    • 09 May 2013

    La pretensión oficial por resolver la titularidad de la tierra se inscribe en el cumplimiento de una exigencia del capital para establecerse en el territorio colombiano. Este reposicionamiento del capital sobre el territorio inaugurará un nuevo ciclo de despojo, pero esta vez se tratará de una desposesión legal.

  • BMI: Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report (Apr-13)
    • Zawya
    • 07 May 2013

    A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund - agreed to pay US $92mn to acquire Continental Farmers Group located in northern Poland and western Ukraine

  • Maharashtra’s sugar cooperatives seek to expand in Africa
    • Live Mint
    • 07 May 2013

    Governments in African countries lease out land at low rates, which makes it attractive to investors

  • Africa is 'the Brazil of the 1970s' in agriculture
    • Agrimoney
    • 07 May 2013

    Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.

  • Colombia: El Meta y los Llanos también sufren acaparamiento de tierras
    • Notillano
    • 07 May 2013

    La Orinoquia ha sido llamada oficialmente como la última frontera agrícola del país, y es el escenario de múltiples intereses de acaparamiento de empresas nacionales y multinacionales que han venido promocionando el modelo del Cerrado brasileño para emularlo en la región, con el único interés de transferir tecnología al suelo.

  • Foro Internacional de Acaparamiento de Tierras
    • CENSAT
    • 07 May 2013

    El objetivo es abrir un espacio de debate y análisis sobre el acaparamiento de tierras como fenómeno global y relacionar esta práctica mundial con la política agraria en Colombia.

  • Olam Moçambique announces “large investments” for next four years
    • Macauhub
    • 07 May 2013

    Olam is putting together an investment plan for the areas of agricultural production and food distribution, which could equal the amount of investment made since it started operating in Mozambique.

  • BrasilAgro flags buoyancy of Brazil land market
    • Agrimoney
    • 07 May 2013

    BrasilAgro flagged the buoyancy of Brazil's farmland market by selling off part of its holding for the equivalent of $6,000 an acre – more than four times the price it paid six years ago.

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