• Cameroun: La terre de la discorde
    • CED
    • 13 February 2012

    Le Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement (CED) vient de publier un rapport intitulé : Le triezième travail de Héraklès ? Etude sur la concession foncière de la SGSOC dans la région du Sud-Ouest Cameroun. La société a obtenu des droits sur une superficie de 73.086 hectares au Cameroun par un bail foncier de 99 ans.

  • Chinese agriculture goes global
    • Economic Observer
    • 13 February 2012

    The Chinese agricultural industry is speeding up the pace of its engagement with international agricultural markets as more policies aimed at encouraging companies to pursue "Going Out" policies are released.

  • Cargill arm puts $40m into farming
    • Australian Financial Review
    • 13 February 2012

    A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agriculture company, Cargill, has injected almost $40 million into a local company which buys Australian rural property.

  • Tajikistan to lease 6,000 hectares of land to China
    • Jamestown Foundation
    • 13 February 2012

    A controversial plan approved by Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture to lease 6,000 hectares of land to China for development has been met with suspicion by some members of the country’s political opposition

  • Felda targets $6.9B market value in Malaysia
    • Bloomberg
    • 13 February 2012

    Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest plantation operator, with a landbank of 880,000 ha, aims to file documents this week for the nation’s biggest initial share sale in more than a year

  • Chemicals are used for economic terrorism amidst land conflicts in Uganda
    • ADRICA-NET
    • 13 February 2012

    The growing land conflict and land grab in Africa and Uganda in particular is a major challenge not only to livelihoods of the poor peasant rural farmers, but is also causing environmental genocide.

  • NZ's best farm land 'already sold off'
    • Fairfax NZ News
    • 13 February 2012

    The amount of productive farmland being taken out of New Zealand hands each year has dropped off sharply in the past decade, figures show. But those opposed to overseas ownership of land say the best land has already been cherry-picked by foreign buyers who push prices up.

  • China 'troca' infraestrutura por grãos na América do Sul
    • Suinocultura Industrial
    • 13 February 2012

    A China está mudando seu modelo de investimentos na agricultura da América do Sul. Diante das restrições a estrangeiros para a aquisições de terras no Brasil e na Argentina, os chineses passaram a privilegiar aportes em infraestrutura em troca do direito exclusivo de comprar a colheita.

  • FAO con mira en compra de tierras
    • El País
    • 12 February 2012

    Apunta a legislar sobre venta del bien a gobiernos

  • ISU pulls out as adviser of ag project in Tanzania
    • Associated Press
    • 11 February 2012

    Iowa State University is no longer an adviser on an agricultural project in Tanzania led by Iowa-based AgriSol Energy.

  • Acaparamiento de tierras, gobernanza y corrupción en Latinoamérica
    • Prensa Latina
    • 11 February 2012

    El acaparamiento y extranjerización de tierras es un fenómeno que se intensifica en América Latina y el Caribe y agudiza las desigualdades, la exclusión y los conflictos sociales con implicaciones políticas.

  • Perú. Por nuestro derecho a decidir
    • El Mercurio Digital
    • 10 February 2012

    A la fecha, existen diversos proyectos de ley para frenar el acaparamiento de tierras en el país, el año 2010 dos de estos fueron archivados y desde el año 2011, se viene dando un nuevo intento por frenar esta situación.

  • Colombia: Corte Constitucional admite demanda contra artículos de tierras del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo
    • MOIR
    • 10 February 2012

    La demanda también señala que las normas del PND violan la seguridad alimentaria, pues permiten que los extranjeros se apropien de grandes cantidades de tierras para abastecer el mercado internacional.

  • Transparence foncière : L’Etat invité à stopper la ruée vers la terre
    • Walf Fadjri
    • 10 February 2012

    ‘S’il y a eu deux morts à Fanaye, c’est parce qu’il n’y a pas eu de transparence dans l’allocation de ces terres-là’, a déclaré Amadou Kanouté, lors de la clôture de l’atelier international de 2 jours, organisé à Dakar, sur la transparence dans les attributions et les investissements dans les ressources foncières.

  • SLC Agrícola vai iniciar processo de internacionalização em Moçambique
    • Macauhub
    • 10 February 2012

    Após terem sido analisados vários países, casos da Colômbia, Paraguai e Uruguai, Rússia, Ucrânia e também outros países africanos, a administração da SLC Agrícola decidiu-se por Moçambique por haver maior estabilidade política e incentivos por parte do governo.

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