Ce numéro spécial des Cahiers Agricultures analyse la place accordée au foncier et aux diverses formes d’agriculture dans les stratégies des Etats, des investisseurs et des communautés d’acteurs locaux.

Green Scenery calculates that 60% of the total area in Pujehun district is already being, or could soon be converted for large-scale industrial agriculture, primarily for oil palm plantations.

Actualmente una de cada nueve rosas llegan de una única multinacional de la flor cortada, la hindú Karuturi Global Ltd, que en sus viveros de Etiopía y Kenya produce 580 millones de flores anualmente.

Authorities have attributed the growth of a saline lake to irrigation runoff, including that from a company bought this year from the government by Horizon Plantations, a venture majority owned by Mohamed al- Amoudi, the largest single investor in Ethiopia.

The briefing suggests a series of questions for asset owners to pose when considering a land investment either directly or via a shareholding to enable them to make an informed risk assessment.

Des paysans d'Ecoruralis dénoncent la mainmise des sociétés multinationales sur près d'un million de terres arables, soit 6% des superficies cultivables roumaines.

Le ministre de l’agriculture du Mali a visité les réalisations du projet Malibya. Les travaux sont arrêtés en attendant la reprise que les responsables de l’Office du Niger espèrent de tous leurs vœux.

Seguiremos luchando por la suspensión de las concesiones de territorios a empresas transnacionales. Seguiremos expulsando a esas compañías de nuestras regiones. Buscaremos derogar las normas que legalizan el despojo y que amenazan la vida y la permanencia en los territorios.

Ethiopians stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis

With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good examples tend to be forgotten

Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale spoke with campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran to discuss why it is such an important issue.

Capital Alternatives, which offers investments ranging from holdings in African agriculture to pop memorabilia, claims it can generate returns of more than 20% over five years on West Australian wheat farms.

La agricultura familiar lucha en todo el mundo por sobrevivir en medio de una gran competición por los recursos naturales.

Sweden’s SEK227.3bn (€26.7bn) state buffer fund Andra AP-fonden (AP2) has been accused of a lack of transparency and snapping up cheap agricultural land in Brazil by campaign group Swedwatch. AP2 denies the allegations.

Karuturi Global Limited, société holding de droit indien et dont le siège est situé à Bangalore, peut se retrouver sous la loupe de l'administration fiscale du Kenya pour fraude fiscale, mais les plaintes déposées contre elle vont plus loin.