Mali: le combat des paysans contre l’accaparement des terres
    Au Mali, de plus en plus de paysans se disent victimes d’accaparement des terres. Découvrez les témoignages de Yaya Konaré, paysan chassé de son champ, Massa Koné, militant qui défend les victimes d’accaparement, et du colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, le nouveau ministre malien de l'Administration territoriale.
    • RFI
    • 17 December 2012
    Commission will report over 300 land grabs to Myanmar MPs
    A government commission formed to identify farmland ownership disputes will bring over 300 cases of land grabs to the attention of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw before the next session begins.
    • Myanmar Times
    • 17 December 2012
    Uruguay: MPP ataca a Aguerre por concentración de la tierra
    Mientras aumenta la concentración y extranjerización de la tierra y el gobierno muestra distintas opiniones sobre qué hacer al respecto, cada día de los últimos diez años tres establecimientos rurales tuvieron que optar por dejar el negocio.
    • El País
    • 16 December 2012
    Moçambique: Governo defende transferência de tecnologias no Baixo Limpopo
    O governante falava na capital provincial da Gaza durante a cerimónia de assinatura de memorandos de entendimento entre as empresas RBL e Wanbao, formalizando a concessão de cerca de 20 mil hectares de terra arável no Baixo Limpopo à companhia da China, que deverá explorar durante meio século.
    • Diario de Moçambique
    • 15 December 2012
    Accepter l'argent chinois et rester ferme: le Canada cherche l'équilibre
    Pétrole, charbon, minerais ou terres agricoles: les entreprises chinoises, à la recherche de matières premières, investissent massivement au Canada où le gouvernement cherche à ménager cette précieuse source de devises tout en marquant sa fermeté face à Pékin.
    • AFP
    • 14 December 2012
    Grabbing at solutions: Water for the hungry first
    This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.
    • National Geographic
    • 14 December 2012
    Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
    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.
    • Joseph Hanlon
    • 14 December 2012
    Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
    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.
    • IRIN
    • 14 December 2012
    Sime Darby’s response to report by Basta! and Friends of the Earth Liberia
    "If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby
    • Sime Darby
    • 14 December 2012
    Bolivia: Precio de la tierra está por las nubes
    La presión internacional con intereses comerciales genera que cada vez más tierras se encuentran en manos de extranjeros.
    • La Prensa
    • 13 December 2012
    Why Africa’s agribusiness sector holds potential for private equity
    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.
    • HowWeMadeItInAfrica
    • 13 December 2012
    Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
    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.
    • EJOLT
    • 13 December 2012
    Swedish fund stokes Australia farm-buying spree
    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.
    • Agrimoney
    • 12 December 2012
    Tendencias políticas en disputa para la gobernanza global del acaparamiento de tierras
    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.
    • TNI
    • 12 December 2012
    The controversy of land deals in Liberia
    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.
    • BBC
    • 11 December 2012

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