Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, au profit des hommes d’affaires nationaux ou des pétrodollars, se poursuit, dans la plus totale opacité.
- Le Calame
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29 December 2010
Local farmers risk losing their land and their livelihood, but perhaps the greatest risk of the Malibya project in Mali is the loss of water.
- The Hindu
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28 December 2010
La legisladora del ARI, Magdalena Odarda, manifestó sus coincidencias con los posicionamientos de la Pastoral Social de la Patagonia
- Río Negro
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28 December 2010
Les ONG n'ont pas révélé l'identité des multinationales de l'agro-busness bénéficiaires des attributions foncières en question; toutefois certaines sources parlent de sociétés saoudiennes, soudanaises et même américaines,
The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
- Modern Ghana
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27 December 2010
Bangladesh wants to invest in growing rice in Cambodia for future exports back to Bangladesh and has requested long-term land leases for up to 99 years, such as Cambodia has already granted to other countries.
- Phnom Penh Post
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27 December 2010
Affected rural poor communities and their allies are not likely to simply accept the land grabbing process in the way the World Bank and its supporters might suppose.
- Capital Ethiopia
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27 December 2010
Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
- Otago Daily Times
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26 December 2010
Investors are taking advantage of cheap land resources from poorer countries whose populations are even more food insecure.
O solo cultivável é o novo objectivo na corrida aos recursos naturais. Mas são os países ricos a ganhar mais com isso
- Exclusivo i-The New York Times
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25 December 2010
Los Departamentos de Pastoral Social de las Diócesis de San Carlos de Bariloche expresaron su desacuerdo “con el alquiler de tierras públicas o privadas ni a grandes Pools de Siembra, sean argentinos o extranjeros, ni a provincias de un país como China”
- AN Bariloche
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25 December 2010
Not a single farmer has been dispossessed of his holding on account of foreign investment, blasts Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Week Horn Africa
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24 December 2010
CNN's Robyn Curnow sat down with the head of Tanzania's Development Authority, Aloyce Msanja, to find out about the sale of "unused" land to Korea.
The Diaspora is just airing the voice of the voiceless Ethiopians for those who are on a land bonanza to stop hurting our people. There is a great danger coming. When? No one knows but it is coming.
- Ecadforum
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24 December 2010
Rien n’est pire, selon Enda Tiers monde, que la stratégie choisie par la Banque mondiale pour amortir les conséquences de l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
- Walf Fadjri
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24 December 2010