"Il faut veiller à ce que les achats de terres soient conformes à des normes éthiques et socialement responsables, notamment en reconnaissant les droits des utilisateurs locaux, en organisant des consultations avec les communautés locales et en versant un dédommagement juste, au prix du marché, pour les terres acquises," selon la Banque mondiale.
What we call land-grabbing is often more about access to irrigation. We urgently need to know how much is being purloined
"In the rush to allocate land for agribusiness, care needs to be taken so that acquisitions are conducted according to ethical and socially responsible standards, including recognizing local users’ rights, holding consultations with local communities, and paying fair market-rate compensation for land acquired," says the World Bank.
The Beidahuang Group has been dismayed by what it regards as negative media coverage of its investment in agricultural land in Australia and plans to scale back while it still purchases more farms.
It alleges that the dealings of Karuturi Global, one of India’s largest flower growers, in the African nation do not smell as sweet as what it grows
The report “Uncertain Futures. The impacts of Sime Darby on communities”, produced by SDI and WRM, gives a deeper insight in how industrial oil palm plantations affect women in a differentiated way.
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.
Ecologistas acusan a la universidad norteamericana de Harvard de ser una de las principales responsables de la destrucción de miles de hectáreas en el Iberá.
Exigen a las autoridades pronta solución antes que corra sangre.
The private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to back the medium-term expansion of ETC Group (ETG), incorporated in Mauritius and specializing trading in food and drink products.
North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said
A Malaysian company that came to Liberia and acquired huge land space, promised to plant about 20,000 hectares to do Liberia proud by investing in oil palm is today embroiled in controversy and internecine conflict.
With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.
Tianjin Agribusiness Company, which is handling large plots in northwestern Bulgaria, plans to build a factory for processing Bulgarian waste constituents of milk production and to export it to China in the form of dried derivatives.
There's been considerable disquiet over the presence of foreign buyers in the farmland market place, but the stats on the extent of foreign ownership and the emerging trends are far from clear.
