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Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 08 Oct 2014

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Down to Earth | 08 Oct 2014
Report accuses India-born businessman of unchecked land grabbing across continents
Sivasankaran’s land grabbing spree has threatened millions of livelihoods, says report

Huffington Post | 07 Oct 2014
Mozambican peasants vs. the great African land grab
"Our land is being occupied without our consultation," say Mozambican peasants.

Inclusive Development | 07 Oct 2014
Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab
A formal complaint filed to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against Australian ANZ Bank. The complaint was lodged on behalf of 681 families who were forcibly displaced.

Opalesque | 07 Oct 2014
Investors, hedge funds flock around opportunities in agriculture
"The buzz has actually been agricultural investment conferences, where about one tenth of the people seem to be people I recognize from the hedge fund circuit."

ABC | 07 Oct 2014
Govt asked to intervene between ANZ and poor Cambodians
Inclusive Development International sent a letter of complaint to the Australian Government outlining how ANZ was a part financier of a sugar plantation in Cambodia which saw almost 700 families forcibly evicted.

NIgeria Tribune | 07 Oct 2014
Niger is number one rice investment destination in Nigeria —Commissioner
Niger State Commissioner for Agriculture says Aliko Dangote is coming to Niger State in grand style with a request for 50,000 ha of land in the flood plain bank of River Niger for rice and sugarcane production.

Huffington Post | 07 Oct 2014
Unprecedented case filed at International Criminal Court proposes land grabbing in Cambodia as a crime against humanity
If the Cambodian government is held to account for these crimes, other governments and the companies involved will have to heed the warning and recognise that land grabbing is too big a price to pay for doing business.

Mint | 07 Oct 2014
Spanish activist group accuses Sivasankaran of global land grab
GRAIN’s report accuses the Siva Group of land grab in many countries across South America, Africa and Asia

GRAIN | 07 Oct 2014
Feeding the 1 percent
An IT billionaire's foray into agribusiness paints a disturbing picture of today's farmland financiers.

Channel News | 07 Oct 2014
Cambodia land grab victims seek ICC 'crimes against humanity' probe
Aid groups estimate that 770,000 people, or 6 per cent of Cambodia's population, have been evicted since 2000, including 20,000 people in the first three months of 2014.

Financial Review | 06 Oct 2014
China's appetite for Aussie farmland
The little known Chinese group Orient Agriculture has emerged as the buyer of a south-west Queensland cropping property Undabri for $30 million, in a further sign of China's growing appetite for Australian farmland.

Policy Review | 06 Oct 2014
EU stands passively by as Cambodia’s oligarchs engage in blatant, shameful land grab
Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.

NAN | 06 Oct 2014
Nigeria: Basin authority to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice, sugar cane in Kwara, Kogi
The Dangote Group had indicated interest in investing in irrigation around Kampe dam, adding that the land was suitable for sugar cane cultivation

Oakland Institue | 06 Oct 2014
Farmers, indigenous peoples, and NGOs take to streets in ten cities demanding an end to World Bank’s morally bankrupt development
Groups will stage "creative resistance" outside of Bank’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.—and around the World—on October 10th & 11th.

LandJustice4wa | 03 Oct 2014
Video EN/FR: Fighting land grabbing in West Africa
Invited by Synergie Paysanne, civil society in West Africa discusses strategies against land grabbing, 23 -25 September 2014 in Cotonou, Benin.

MEI | 02 Oct 2014
Agrarian mirage: Gulf foreign direct investment in Pakistan’s agricultural sector
How did such a promising idea (which appeared to offer a textbook example of a win-win situation) fail?

Radio Tamazuj | 01 Oct 2014
Farmers accuse North Kordofan governor of land grabs
Street protests could erupt at any time in El Obeid town in North Kordofan due to a dispute over agricultural land between local farmers and the state governor, an activist said.

Vientiane Times | 29 Sep 2014
Chinese investors eye fruit plantations in Saravan
Chinese investors are eying the potential of multi-million dollar investments in banana and other tropical fruit plantation projects in Saravan province, according to the provincial deputy governor.

Vientiane Times | 10 Sep 2014
Chinese authorities eye agricultural investment in Laos
Authorities of Quanzhou city in China’s Fujian province have expressed their interest in agricultural investment in growing rice and organic vegetables to supply the Chinese market.

LUP | 02 Nov 2013
The politics of the forest frontier: Negotiating between conservation, development, and indigenous rights in Cross River State, Nigeria
Cross River State has become one of Nigeria’s premier agricultural investment destinations, crowding out smallholder production systems and creating new avenues for rent capture by elites.

Eburon Delft | 03 Oct 2013
The Governance of Large-Scale Farmland Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
The primary aim of this book is to advance the understanding of the regulatory conditions under which large-scale farmland investments can contribute to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.


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GRAIN | 07 oct 2014
Comment nourrir le « 1 % »
L'irruption dans l'agrobusiness d'un milliardaire indien de l'informatique donne une image inquiétante du rôle actuel de la finance dans l'agriculture

FIDH | 07 oct 2014
Cambodge : Examen préliminaire devrait être ouvert par la CPI sur les crimes résultant de l’accaparement des terres
Une communication soumise aujourd’hui à la Cour pénale internationale atteste que la pratique des crimes découlant de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge est constitutive de crimes contre l’humanité.

visionscarto | 06 oct 2014
Accaparement de terres : la Chine, l’Inde et les États-Unis aussi...
Lors d’une présentation au cours de laquelle je parlais de la série de cartes des appropriations de terres à l’étranger par les entreprises européennes, quelqu’un dans le public me posa cette question : Vous évoquez les pays européens, soit, mais et la Chine en Afrique, et les milliers de paysans chinois qui s’installent en Afrique, vous en dites quoi ?

Sahara TV | 03 oct 2014
Eveil d Afrique : Accaparement des terres en afrique
Farida reçoit Mme Binta Terrier qui avec son ONG PLAD (Partnership League for African’s Dévelopment) a organisé un géant concert au Warner Theater à Washington D.C pour dénoncer ce fléau.

Jeune Afrique | 02 oct 2014
Venkataramani Srivathsan : "Pour Olam, l'essentiel est d'identifier les maillons les plus rentables"
"Nous avons appris en Afrique que ce n'est pas parce que le gouvernement vous accorde une concession que vous allez pouvoir travailler comme vous l'entendez. Il faut d'abord obtenir l'autorisation des populations locales."

Oeildafrik | 25 sep 2014
Enquete sur l'accaparemment des terres
Ce reportage a été réalisé à Mbomboye, un village sénégalais où presque toutes les terres culivables ont été cédées à des multinationales, investisseurs au détriment des paysans.


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Vanguardia | 05 oct 2014
Colombia: Los trucos para robarse la tierra baldía
En Colombia hay más formas de robar tierras baldías, que maneras de combinar una arepa.

El Pais | 05 oct 2014
Tierras de labor transnacionales
Gobiernos y empresas han acaparado en los países en desarrollo un área mayor que México

El Mundo | 03 oct 2014
La trata de esclavos en el siglo XXI
Ahora, el empobrecimiento de los pueblos africanos debido al acaparamiento de tierras y recursos naturales, la violencia armada, los niños soldado y el lucrativo negocio del tráfico de armas, la trata de personas o el abuso infantil siguen siendo temas de plena vigencia.

Pulzo | 03 oct 2014
Colombia: Gobierno financiaría posconflicto asignando tierras a empresarios nacionales y extranjeros
Así lo establecería el proyecto de Ley de Tierras que comenzará a delinear cómo se piensa financiar y materializar esta etapa del proceso.

La Vía Campesina | 03 oct 2014
La usurpación de tierras predomina en la apertura de la III Conferencia Internacional Campesina
"Nuestra producción va a caer, porque nos estamos quedando sin tierras", sostuvo Estevão Costa. Según él, el fenómeno [usurpación de tierras] reducirá la producción, “arrastrando” a muchos campesinos al hambre y a la pobreza.

Yahoo Finanzas | 02 oct 2014
Uruguay promulga una norma que prohíbe la compra de tierra a Estados extranjeros
Uruguay promulgó una normativa que establece la prohibición y la tenencia de tierras para explotación agropecuaria a cualquier empresa en la que tenga participación directa o indirecta algún Estado extranjero.


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ADECRU | 06 Oct 2014
Camponeses acusam candidatos à Presidência da República de marginalizarem a agricultura camponesa
Os camponeses apontam que a entrada desses investimentos empurram as comunidades para terra inférteis, desestruturam o tecido social, destroem os meios de vivência das comunidades, levando ao aumento da pobreza.

UNAC | 03 Oct 2014
Moçambique: Mulheres Camponesas clamam por acesso a mercados e denunciam usurpação de terras
“Quando os camponeses procuram saber como é que as terras foram ocupadas, apenas lhes mostram documentos que os camponeses não percebem o seu conteúdo. Ou seja, o camponês é tratado como nada”



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