• Mozambique's agricultural fortunes rest on a choice between Obama and Annan
    • The Guardian
    • 31 July 2012

    The Obama model's first project in Mozambique will be to support Cargill, the giant grain trader and largest private company in the world, to take 40,000 hectares of farmland.

  • Communal land associations: A perfect solution to land grabbing
    • NAPE
    • 30 July 2012

    With communal land associations communities will be having one voice and if anybody, be it government or investor, is interested in their land, that person is made aware of that the group is organized and therefore not easy to simply deploy graders to start tiling or clearing the land.

  • Up for grabs
    • Greenpeace
    • 30 July 2012

    A massive land grab has occurred in Papua New Guinea under the auspices of the Special Agricultural and Business Leases scheme, and the impact on communities across the country has been devastating. Greenpeace has produced a new report that details the extent of the damage.

  • Foreign fingers in the pie
    • ABC
    • 30 July 2012

    There's growing interest in who invests in Australian companies and who buys Australian land, with more discussion around the topic of global food security.

  • Moderne Landräuber reißen fruchtbares Land an sich
    • FOCUS
    • 30 July 2012

    Mit perfiden Methoden eignen sich Einzelpersonen oder Unternehmen Land an. Betroffen ist inzwischen eine Fläche halb so groß wie Westeuropa. Die Investoren tun dabei so, als handelten sie aus hehren Motiven. Auch Deutsche sind beteiligt.

  • Extranjerización del territorio paraguayo
    • El rincón de Anahí
    • 27 July 2012

    Por lo menos 7.889.128 hectáreas de nuestro país están en manos extranjeras. Es el 19.4% del territorio nacional y nadie parece sorprenderse ni preocuparse.

  • Mali: Le combat n’est pas fini même si des batailles sont gagnées
    • CMCAT
    • 27 July 2012

    Deux investisseurs visés dans des procédures juridiques, la société SOSUMAR et le négociant en céréales des sociétés 3M, Modibo Keita, ont révisé leur position.

  • Uruguay: Es ahora
    • La Diaria
    • 26 July 2012

    FA analiza dos proyectos para frenar extranjerización de la tierra; Comisión Nacional de Fomento Rural considera que “llegó el momento” de hacerlo.

  • Interview with Ahmad bin Awang Ali of the Borneo Indigenous Peasant Movement
    • GRAIN
    • 26 July 2012

    Indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia are facing an escalation of land grabbing in their territories by national palm oil companies, backed by foreign corporations.

  • 'Land grabs' – the new scramble for Africa
    • CNN
    • 26 July 2012

    Villagers in Mozambique are caught between their government's need to promote agricultural development through foreign investment and to protect the rights of the citizens who depend on that land.

  • Declaración de Bukit Tinggi sobre la Reforma Agraria en el siglo XXI
    • Vía Campesina
    • 25 July 2012

    Como ya expresamos en el Llamamiento de Dakar y en la Declaración de Nyeleni en contra del Acaparamiento de Tierras, éste es un fenómeno global promovido por las élites y los inversores locales, nacionales y transnacionales, y los gobiernos con el objetivo de controlar los recursos más preciados del planeta.

  • China firm eyes controversial 58-sq-mile Australia farm project
    • Reuters
    • 25 July 2012

    A Chinese property conglomerate is bidding for a 15,000 hectare farming project in the Australian outback as Canberra looks to open the remote north for farming to tap booming demand for food from Asia, especially China.

  • Foreign investment in US land on the rise
    • USA Today
    • 25 July 2012

    Investors from Canada and the Netherlands have almost half of all foreign forest and farmland holdings in the USA. The Canadian holdings reflect investment by timber companies, while the Dutch holdings reflect pension fund investments.

  • Un prochain audit sur la propriété des terres en Bolivie
    • El Correo
    • 24 July 2012

    Evo Morales, président de la Bolivie a déclaré être d’accord avec la proposition de la Fédération des Paysans de Santa Cruz de réaliser un audit national sur la propriété des terres dans le pays, afin de connaître par qui et comment elles sont administrées.

  • Cambodia’s deadly land grab battle
    • chinadialogue
    • 24 July 2012

    Cambodia is a microcosm of a violent struggle playing out across the globe for control of a shrinking – and therefore increasingly valuable – pool of natural resources.

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