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African film shows tensions between banana growers, villagers
- VOA News
- 15 August 2011
"The Big Banana" shows the effects of an export banana plantation on the Mungo area of Cameroon
Govt to re-evaluate proposed contract farming deal in Africa
- Financial Express
- 15 August 2011
The government of Bangladesh has taken a fresh move to re-evaluate the proposed contract farming agreement for food-grain production in Africa to meet the country's demand.
INTERVIEW-Mozambique offers Brazilian farmers land to plant
- Reuters
- 15 August 2011
Mozambique invites Brazilian soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the head of Mato Grosso state's cotton producers association Ampa said on Monday.
La Presidenta pidió que se trate el proyecto de propiedad de la tierra
- Cronista
- 15 August 2011
Así lo solicitó Cristina Kirchner a la oposición en una sorpresiva conferencia de prensa que brindó este mediodía.
Bolivia: Un millón de hectáreas de tierra en manos de extranjeros, según Tierra
- Opinión
- 14 August 2011
En Bolivia “hay un progresivo acaparamiento extranjero de las mejores tierras agrícolas, especialmente por parte de ciudadanos brasileros y argentinos”, según un estudio elaborado por la Fundación Tierra.
Mozambique ofrece a Brasil tierras baratas para plantar soja, maíz y algodón
- EFE
- 14 August 2011
El Gobierno de Mozambique ofreció una gran extensión de tierras baratas a agricultores brasileños para que cultiven soja, maíz y algodón, informó hoy una fuente oficial del país africano citada por el diario Folha de São Paulo.
Moçambique oferece terra à soja brasileira
- IHU
- 14 August 2011
O governo de Moçambique está oferecendo uma área de 6 milhões de hectares - equivalente a três Sergipes- para que agricultores brasileiros plantem soja, algodão e milho no norte do país.
Cameroonian filmmaker unpeels banana inequalities
- VoA
- 13 August 2011
Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".
Chinese company push for Western Australia farmland
- Farm Weekly
- 12 August 2011
A number of growers in the Great Southern have been approached by a prominent Chinese company with offers to buy farms.
Russia offers agricultural land for Southeast Asian farmers to grow crops
- Bloomberg
- 12 August 2011
Russia is offering agricultural land to Southeast Asian nations to grow crops and help secure reliable food supplies, part of wider efforts to foster trade and investment ties in new markets.
Corne de l'Afrique : pour une agriculture souveraine et durable
- Le Monde
- 12 August 2011
Les terres africaines doivent être protégées de l'accaparement croissant par des investisseurs étrangers.
Les nouveaux accapareurs de terres agricoles
- Le Paysan Breton
- 12 August 2011
Le mot « accapareur » était déjà utilisé avant la Révolution Française de 1789. Il désignait ceux qui entretenaient la famine pour s’enrichir par le marché noir, un des éléments déclencheurs de la Révolution.
Meles Zenawi says no land grab in Ethiopia—not today, not tomorrow
- tramnsformingethiopia
- 11 August 2011
The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.
Nigerian farmer leader talks about resistance to land grabs
- GRAIN
- 11 August 2011
Interview with Olaseinde Makanjuola Arigbede of the United Small and Medium scale Farmers' Associations of Nigeria (USMEFAN)
Land registry law published
- UKRINFORM
- 11 August 2011
The law on the state land cadastre was published in the parliamentary newspaper Holos Ukrainy and will take force on 1 January 2012.