• PNG land grab update
    • Development Policy
    • 22 August 2012

    It is expected that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) will shortly be tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national parliament, but no one yet knows what it will recommend, let alone whether Peter O’Neill’s new government will act on those recommendations.

  • Côte d'Ivoire : multinationales en quête de terre
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 21 August 2012

    Des grands groupes agro-industriels étrangers s'intéressent de près à la riziculture ivoirienne. Parmi eux, Mimran, Olam et Louis Dreyfus.

  • Cargill fund boosts agri firm expansion
    • Malaya
    • 21 August 2012

    Powered by a $34.45-million infusion from a Singapore-based hedge fund owned by Cargill Inc., the expansion and acquisition binge of AgriNurture Inc. has accelerated into a buildup of farm hectarage that will see the company buy up some 1,400 hectares.

  • Brazilian companies eye agricultural sector
    • Daily News
    • 21 August 2012

    The companies, which produce mainly soya, sugarcane, corn and cotton, were informed about the opportunities for investment in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).

  • Accaparement des terres et souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre
    • GRAIN
    • 20 August 2012

    Lors d’un atelier organisé par Synergie Paysanne, GRAIN et le RAPDA, avec le soutien de Pain pour le Prochain, à Ouidah (Bénin) du 7 au 9 février 2012, plus d’une trentaine de participants représentant des organisations paysannes et des ONG actives sur les questions d’accaparement des terres en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre ont échangé leurs expériences et approfondi cette question.

  • Land grab compromises food sovereignty in southern Africa
    • La Via Campesina
    • 20 August 2012

    The ongoing rush to African land by national and transnational investors was a dominant theme at the People’s Dialogue and Summit being held at Mumemo in Maputo.

  • Stop selling our land overseas
    • SMH
    • 20 August 2012

    Politicians and economists say that the Australian public is only worked up about foreign ownership of agricultural land because the community is misinformed. This drives the belief that a register of foreign land holdings will calm everyone's anxiety. Given that Queensland has had such a register for 20 years, and that disquiet about foreign ownership still resonates among Queenslanders, this means that something else is at play.

  • Transnational land grabs in Ghana cause conflicts
    • Public Agenda
    • 17 August 2012

    The recent increasing land acquisitions by transnational corporations (TNCs) is causing conflicts among farmers, pastoralists and other land users in Ghana, and have the potential of leading to the loss of arable land by smallholders, reveals a study.

  • Québec solidaire s’engage à contrer la spéculation sur les terres agricoles
    • Québec Solidaire
    • 17 August 2012

    L’acquisition des terres par des investisseurs étrangers est le plus récent symptôme de la pression financière qui fragilise les producteurs.

  • Contrat de bail emphytéotique entre l'Etat Malagasy et la Société Tozzi Green
    • TIIM
    • 17 August 2012

    Contrat de bail emphytéotique entre l'Etat Malagasy et la Société Tozzi Green signé le 17 août 2012

  • Abdoulaye Wade "a remis illégalement des milliers de terres à des multinationales", révèle l’économiste suisse, Jean Ziegler
    • PressAfrik
    • 17 August 2012

    Jean Ziegler a dénoncé ce jeudi la nébuleuse autour du contrat signé entre l’Etat du Sénégal et l’entreprise "Les Grands Domaines du Sénégal" dirigée par des Suisses.

  • Laos cracksdown on talkback show for airing land grab debate
    • ABC
    • 16 August 2012

    Ounkeo pioneered talkback radio in Laos, giving his listeners a rare chance to voice their opinions on the airwaves, but discussion on the sensitive subject of corporate land grabs appears to have persuaded officials that enough was enough.

  • Paraguay: Attacks against press and land grabbing denounced
    • Prensa Latina
    • 15 August 2012

    Paraguay Resist Social Forum recorded in its first day of debates, denounces against government attacks on journalists, public and alternative media and land grabbing by multinational corporations.

  • Argentina: Informe extranjerización de tierras
    • Youtube
    • 15 August 2012

    El informe analiza la situación de la Ley contra la Extranjerización de Tierras en Argentina y los avances del registro de posesión de tierras en manos de extranjeros.

  • Cerca de 4,5 milhões de hectares de terras brasileiras pertencem a estrangeiros
    • Jornal Agora
    • 15 August 2012

    Essa área está distribuída por 3.692 cidades e ocupa cerca de 0,53% do território nacional, o que equivale ao estado do Rio Grande do Norte.

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