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Global land grabs on Valentine’s Day at IATP
- 14 February 2013
Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.
Vanderbilt University divests from "land grab" in Africa
- Oakland Institute
- 13 February 2013
This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure
América Latina y el Caribe: las disputas por poseer la tierra
- Nicaragua Hoy
- 13 February 2013
De acuerdo con Perspectivas, la concentración y extranjerización de la tierra continuará en América Latina en los próximos años, aunque también se generan legislaciones e iniciativas en algunos países por regular la propiedad extranjera de la tierra.
Uruguay: Proponen registro de extranjeros que tengan tierras en la frontera
- El Observador
- 13 February 2013
El proyecto de los legisladores oficialistas ya está en poder de Mujica
Swedish buffer fund AP2 seeks to grow timber, agricultural portfolio
- IPE
- 13 February 2013
Sweden's second buffer fund hopes to increase its agricultural and timberland investments beyond the current 10% strategic benchmark for real estate, the fund's chief investment strategist has told IPE
O projeto Prosavana - uma visão menos maquiada
- Palvraberta
- 13 February 2013
Entrevista com o governo federal deputado Luiz Nishimori
Agriterra grows in cocoa with Sierra Leone deal
- Agrimoney
- 13 February 2013
Agriterra revealed headway in its long-held desire to expand into cocoa production, acquiring 1,750 hectares of plantations, and forecasting further purchases with a windfall from a sale of oil interests.
Indonesia plans to expand palm oil, cocoa plantations to Nigeria
- Xinhua
- 13 February 2013
"Nigeria has offered land for us, no matter how large we need," says Indonesian Industry Minister MS Hidayat
Los rostros de los que sufren el acaparamiento de tierras
- OXFAM - CRECE
- 12 February 2013
Las familias campesinas que han vendido su fuente de sustento no tienen otra alternativa que trabajar en las plantaciones de palma que han invadido literalmente todo lo que alcanza su vista.
Nederlands bedrijfsleven moet verantwoordelijkhead nemen
- Vice Versa
- 12 February 2013
De hoorzitting over landroof die afgelopen maandag in de Tweede Kamer werd gehouden benadrukte het belang van transparantie in het beleid. Ook werd het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven aangesproken op haar verantwoordelijkheid om het landroof probleem een halt toe te roepen.
Corporations, investors 'grabbing' land and water overseas
- Mother Nature Network
- 12 February 2013
There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.
Lobby wants land grabbers stopped
- The Citizen
- 11 February 2013
“We are not against land investments, but the land should not be given out to foreigners. Citizens should reserve the right to access it,” says Mr Bernard Baha of ActionAid in Tanzania.
Burma ‘latest flashpoint’ in global land grabbing epidemic
- DVB
- 11 February 2013
Burma has become the “latest flashpoint in an alarming trend” of global land grabs, which continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the world, two new reports have warned.
To be expected: Faulty land matrix database goes academic…
- Oil for Food
- 11 February 2013
The continuous hyping of large and unverified figures does a disservice to the important issues that are at stake.
Land grabbing in a forgotten country – MIFEE-affected villager visits Netherlands
- Awas MIfee
- 11 February 2013
‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.