• International Peasant Conference : Stop the land grab
    • CNOP/Via Campesina
    • 28 October 2011

    The National Coordination of Farming Organizations in Mali and the Via Campesina invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against global land grabs.

  • Conférence paysanne internationale : Stop à l'accaparement des terres
    • La Via Campesina
    • 28 October 2011

    Les paysans et paysannes de la la Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes du Mali (CNOP) et le mouvement paysan international Via Campesina invitent la presse à couvrir la première rencontre paysanne internationale destinée à renforcer la lutte contre l'accaparement des terres qui sévit en Afrique et dans d'autres régions du monde.

  • Africa Rising: Economic progress vs. cultural preservation in Ethiopia
    • CSM
    • 27 October 2011

    Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.

  • China's farming history misapplied in Africa
    • Al Jazeera
    • 27 October 2011

    Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.

  • Declaración de la Asamblea Provincial de Luis Beltrán, Valle Medio, Provincia de Río Negro
    • 27 October 2011

    Los abajo firmantes, vecinos, organizaciones y comunidades de toda las regiones de la Provincia de Río Negro, Patagonia Argentina, reunidos en asamblea para rechazar los infames "acuerdos" firmados por el Gobernador saliente, Miguel Angel Saiz, con una corporación china, y en conocimiento de similares proyectos económicos en otros lugares del país, declaramos:

  • Death toll in Senegal clash over biofuels land rises to two
    • AFP
    • 26 October 2011

    A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries.

  • Laos, China sign MOU to develop organic farms
    • Vientiane Times
    • 26 October 2011

    Lao and Chinese businesses this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for investment in organic farming in Laos, at a cost of about US$5 million.

  • Des ONG appellent à une action pour freiner les saisies des terres
    • IPS
    • 26 October 2011

    Des organisations de la société civile invitent les gouvernements des pays en développement à arrêter la location et la vente des terres aux entreprises transnationales parce que cela conduit à la dégradation des terres et à l'insécurité alimentaire.

  • Wikileaks : la percée chinoise au Cameroun
    • Mutations
    • 26 October 2011

    "Les ressortissants chinois se sont vu atribuer d'importantes parcelles de terres agricoles pour la culture du riz, du champignon et du maïs," raconte l'ambassade des Etats Unis au Cameroun dans une dépèche de Wikileaks.

  • Al Jazeera: Acaparamento de terras em África
    • Al Jazeera
    • 25 October 2011

    Programa The Stream exibido em 25/10/2011 pela Al Jazeera

  • Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
    • Al Jazeera
    • 25 October 2011

    Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.

  • Civil society groups call for action to curb land grabbing
    • IPS
    • 25 October 2011

    NGOs tried to get a pronouncement in the Changwon Declaration against the continued grabbing of land throughout Africa and Asia.

  • Utópico “acaparamiento responsable”: A la caza de Tierras
    • REDAF
    • 25 October 2011

    Las patéticas imágenes de la hambruna en África vuelven a recorrer el mundo. Lo que no suele mencionarse es que esta calamidad esta ligada, en parte, al auge de la compra masiva de tierras por parte de empresas o Estados extranjeros, que sustituyen la agricultura familiar por grandes explotaciones destinadas a la exportación.

  • Money for Russia’s agriculture
    • RT
    • 25 October 2011

    Russia’s VTB Capital plans $1bn agriculture fund which will begin by buying assets in Russia and Kazakhstan – from land to processing companies.

  • Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
    • BBC
    • 24 October 2011

    BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.

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