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Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
- Joseph Hanlon
- 14 December 2012
The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.
Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
- IRIN
- 14 December 2012
Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
Sime Darby’s response to report by Basta! and Friends of the Earth Liberia
- Sime Darby
- 14 December 2012
"If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby
Bolivia: Precio de la tierra está por las nubes
- La Prensa
- 13 December 2012
La presión internacional con intereses comerciales genera que cada vez más tierras se encuentran en manos de extranjeros.
Why Africa’s agribusiness sector holds potential for private equity
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 13 December 2012
Ander Einarsson, a partner at Phatisa and the team leader responsible for the Feronia deal, answered a few of How we made it in Africa’s questions.
Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
- EJOLT
- 13 December 2012
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
Swedish fund stokes Australia farm-buying spree
- Agrimoney
- 12 December 2012
A Swedish pension fund has become the latest of a series of purchasers of Australian farmland, a buying spree which has fuelled public concerns, and raised discussion over curbs on foreign ownership.
Tendencias políticas en disputa para la gobernanza global del acaparamiento de tierras
- TNI
- 12 December 2012
En respuesta a la actual oleada de acaparamientos de tierras, se está librando una batalla política para controlar el carácter, el ritmo, los parámetros y trayectoria del discurso, y los instrumentos de gobernanza de la tierra.
The controversy of land deals in Liberia
- BBC
- 11 December 2012
From a a palm oil plantation run by a Malaysian company, Sime Darby, the Today programme's Evan Davis looked into whether lands deals are a route into better life, or a signing away of the nation's wealth.
African Agricultural Growth Corridors: Who benefits, who loses?
- EcoNexus
- 11 December 2012
Governments, IFIs and corporations are collaborating in major new projects to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of ha in Africa to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets.
Mercy Corps planning $10 million private-equity fund in Ethiopia
- Bloomberg
- 11 December 2012
Mercy Corps, a non-governmental aid agency, plans to set up a $10 million private equity fund in Ethiopia to encourage foreign investment, primarily in agriculture.
Land Rush: How do you feed the world
- Why Poverty?
- 11 December 2012
Documentary film examines the experience of Mali with large-scale farmland grabs.
La prolétarisation des agriculteurs et la souveraineté alimentaire
- Gaïa Presse
- 10 December 2012
L’Union des producteurs agricoles a sonné l’alarme concernant l’accaparement des terres par des fonds spéculatifs et la multiplication des contrats d’intégration, craignant qu’on se dirige vers une agriculture de locataires plutôt que de propriétaires.
Une réunion communautaire au sujet de l’huile de palme au Liberia conduit à une déclaration vive sur le développement futur de l’huile de palme au Liberia
- FPP
- 10 December 2012
Des représentants communautaires provenant des quatre coins du Liberia se sont réunis du 27 au 29 novembre dans la ville de Bopolu, dans le Comté de Gbarpolu, afin d'examiner les répercussions des activités des concessions agricoles d’huile de palme au Liberia sur des terres déjà utilisées et détenues (de façon coutumière ou autre) par les communautés.
Uruguay: Aumenta la concentración y el MPP insiste en la reforma agraria
- El País
- 10 December 2012
MPP. Dice que el ICIR fue "tímido"; hay planteos de "expropiaciones". El polémico impuesto que se comenzó a cobrar este año es un "tímido intento" por frenar la extranjerización de la tierra, afirmaron a El País integrantes del MPP.