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Stop land grab in Hungary!
- LMV
- 10 April 2013
La Via Campesina, Transnational Institute, World March of Women and some other organizations approved a statement supporting the struggle against land grab in Hungary.
La Banque mondiale veut mettre l’accent sur les droits fonciers
- IPS
- 10 April 2013
La Banque mondiale mettra un accent plus fort sur les questions de régime foncier et des investissements agricoles durables aux plans social et environnemental, a-t-elle annoncé lundi à Washington.
Accaparement des terres au Sénégal (FIARA 2013)
- CCPA Kaolack
- 10 April 2013
Sidy Ba, secrétaire général du CCPA, fait un exposé sur l'accaparement des terres lors de l'atelier de partage et de réflexion «La sécurité alimentaire face aux enjeux liés aux OGM et à l'accaparement des terres»
Si la ONU quiere acabar con el hambre, debe cambiar las políticas que lo causan
- Tercera Información
- 10 April 2013
Con ocasión de la reunión de alto nivel sobre hambre, seguridad alimentaria y nutrición que Naciones Unidas celebra en Madrid, la Plataforma Rural -en la que participa Ecologistas en Acción- reivindica la lucha contra la agricultura industrial, el robo de tierras y la especulación financiera.
Qatar firm defends WA farm investment
- West Australian
- 10 April 2013
Hassad Australia chief executive Tom McKeon said the company employed people from local communities, supported local businesses and paid tax. The company owns 11 farms over 250,000ha in Australia, including three in WA.
Foncier rural: Le Bénin au cœur de l’accaparement des terres
- L’Evénement Précis
- 10 April 2013
Les terres agricoles sont bradées sur l’ensemble du territoire béninois.
Egypt aims to become self-sufficient in sunflower oil by using farmland provided by neighboring Sudan
- Global Post
- 09 April 2013
Private Egyptian investors to plant sunflower on 210,000ha of land earmarked for joint agricultural projects under a deal reached by President Mohamed Mursi and President Hassan Omar al-Bashir.
More needs to be done to curb land grabbing
- The Citizen
- 09 April 2013
Tanzania's The Citizen says land grabbing is a potentially explosive issue that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency before it leads to widespread violence and bloodletting.
Broken promises: rural women hit hardest by corporate land deals
- Oxfam
- 09 April 2013
Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. Marc Wegerif introduces a new Oxfam briefing paper.
Al-Amoudi’s Horizon eyes global banana market following acquisition of enterprises
- Capital Ethiopia
- 09 April 2013
Horizon Plantations, an emerging agro-specialized business owned by Sheikh Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, plans to compete with world’s leading banana producers following acquisition of several state enterprises.
Ram Karuturi mulls taking his rose-to-maize company private
- Business Today
- 09 April 2013
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi feels a growing sense of unease these days. It stems from an email that Karuturi received on March 7. The sender wrote he had lost Rs 7 lakh by investing in Karuturi Global Ltd's shares.
Main basse sur les terres
- Oxfam
- 08 April 2013
Le journaliste italien Stefano Liberti a enquêté de l’Ethiopie au Brésil, du Middle West américain à la Bourse de Chicago, en passant par l’Arabie saoudite, la Tanzanie et la Suisse sur le phénomène des accaparements de terre. Son livre "Main basse sur la terre", vient de paraître en français.
La sojización de Uruguay: La tierrita de los orientales
- Rebelion
- 08 April 2013
Un estudio presentado por Gabriel Oyhantçabal e Ignacio Narbondo demuestra varios datos interesantes. Veamos apenas dos: 1) El aumento del precio promedio de la tierra en operaciones de compraventa y 2) El surgimiento del “rentista”.
“I would rather have my land back”: Subaltern voices and corporate/state land grab in the Save Valley
- LDPI
- 08 April 2013
Under an obscure 50,000 ha land deal with Macdom and Rating Investments, 250,000 communal farmers stand to lose or have already lost their lands and livelihoods.
World Bank to strengthen focus on land rights
- IPS
- 08 April 2013
The World Bank formally reiterates its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.