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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 21 Oct 2015
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Sign the petition to denounce the arrest of Ethiopian food & land activists and help support their families.
 
 
Let's save Malagasy farmers against new threats to their lands! Sign the petition
The formulation by the Malagasy authorities of policies and several laws involving the use of land by investors risks to organise the negation of peasants and local communities rights on their land. 
 
Guardian | 21 Oct 2015
Tanzania sugar project leaves bitter taste for farmers caught up in land disputes

A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security

Canadian Press | 21 Oct 2015
Saskatchewan strengthens farmland laws to ward off foreign investors

Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart has introduced amendments to Saskatchewan’s farm security legislation that will make pension plans and their administrators ineligible from owning farmland in the province.

Le Soleil | 21 Oct 2015
Accaparement des terres : Les femmes de Fandène contre toute forme de discrimination

L’Association des femmes rurales de la commune de Fandène a réuni à Fandène productrices, élus locaux et autres acteurs du développement pour échanger sur la problématique de l’accaparement des terres.

ASO | 21 Oct 2015
International organisations launch petition in support of jailed Ethiopian activists as court date approaches

The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22.

Visionscarto | 21 Oct 2015
Des terres et des territoires

« Des terres et des territoires » : Visionscarto rend régulièrement compte de ce récit cartographique, qui prend peu à peu forme sous le pinceau d’Agnès Stienne. Notre ambition est de le faire vivre sous la forme d’une exposition itinérante traduite en plusieurs langues, ainsi que d’un web-documentaire. Son auteure lance ici un appel à soutien et participation.

Foreign Policy | 20 Oct 2015
The myth of the African land grab

Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.

Reuters | 20 Oct 2015
New database tracks large land deals in bid to boost transparency

Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors

UNIDO | 20 Oct 2015
UNIDO: Partnering with EU to support agribusiness investments in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific regions

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.

P&I | 19 Oct 2015
Farmland assets grow 33%; timber assets also climb

Pension fund manager TIAA-CREF's farmland assets grew by 56% to $7.8 billion in committed assets.

WRM | 16 Oct 2015
West Papua Oil Palm Atlas: The companies behind the plantation explosion

The oil palm industry’s rapid growth in West Papua, Indonesia is having serious adverse effects on its indigenous population.

WRM | 16 Oct 2015
Industrial oil palm plantations: A model that violates forest-dependent peoples and their territories

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

PAN AP | 16 Oct 2015
#NoLandNoLife | World Hunger Day 2015: Hunger, poverty and repression killing rural communities

Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.

Alberta Farmer | 15 Oct 2015
American farmland titan eyes Canada

One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta.

WRM | 15 Oct 2015
Democratic Republic of Congo: “We need justice to be made"

Interview with Jean-François Mombia on the impacts of the oil palm plantations of the Canadian company, Feronia.

PAN AP | 15 Oct 2015
#RuralWomenRiseUp: Groups to hold simultaneous actions to assert rights to land and resources

As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.

APC | 15 Oct 2015
Massive land grabbing and plunder of resources kills peasant women and their communities, says APC

Governments in Asia implements Public and Private Partnership (PPP) projects which worsened landlessness and directly impacts Asian agriculture. Statement by APC on the occasion of the International Rural Women’s Day.

Deal Street Asia | 14 Oct 2015
Chinese PE firm AFC to invest up to $20m in startups, agriculture companies in Malaysia

China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming.

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Sauvons les paysans malgaches des nouvelles menaces sur leurs terres ! Sgnez la pétition
La formulation par les autorités malgaches de politiques et de diverses lois impliquant l’usage des terres par les investisseurs risque d’organiser la négation des droits sur leurs terres pour les paysans et les communautés locales.

 
 

Pétition de Sauvons la forêt
« Bolloré a pris nos terres. Et maintenant notre liberté. » Des paysans d’Afrique et d’Asie accusent la holding luxembourgeoise Socfin de s’être accaparée leurs terres pour ses cultures d’huile de palme. Ils ont lancé une série de blocages dans les plantations pour que l’actionnaire principal Bolloré s’emploie à faire respecter leurs droits et restituer leurs terres. Soutenons leur action ! 

 
CRIdeM | 21 oct 2015
Mauritainie: Non à l’accaparement des terres de Dar El Barka !

Une réunion s’est tenue à la Mairie de Dar El Barka dont l’ordre du jour a porté sur le conflit foncier qui oppose les propriétaires terriens au gouvernement Mauritanien qui a loué les terres à l’AAAID

Zone Bourse | 19 oct 2015
Agrogeneration : Le financement de la prochaine campagne agricole renouvelé avec succès

AgroGeneration, producteur de céréales et oléagineux en Ukraine, vient de renouveler son crédit de campagne pour un montant maximum de 35 M USD.

Libération | 19 oct 2015
«Le gouvernement a vendu le nord du Laos à la Chine»

Dans certains districts de la province de Bokéo de très nombreux paysans laotiens louent leurs terres à des Chinois qui établissent des plantations de bananiers s’étalant sur plusieurs milliers d’hectares.

WRM | 16 oct 2015
L’atlas de l’huile de palme en Papouasie occidentale : les entreprises derrière le boom des plantations d’huile de palme

Les sociétés de plantations de palmiers à huile s’intéressent désormais à l’archipel des Moluques et en particulier à la Papouasie occidentale, une région déchirée par les conflits.

WRM | 16 oct 2015
Les plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile, un mode d’exploitation qui porte atteinte aux populations forestières et à leurs territoires

Ce bulletin de WRM vise à dénoncer l’expansion des plantations de palmiers à huile et à divulguer certains effets négatifs qu’elle a sur les peuples des forêts et sur leurs territoires.

WRM | 16 oct 2015
La République Démocratique du Congo: Nous avons besoin que justice soit faite

Entretien avec Jean-François Mombia du RIAO sur les plantations de palmiers à huile de la société canadienne Feronia.

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GRAIN | 15 oct 2015
La trampa de la inversión responsable en tierras agrícolas

En todas partes, de los salones de los directorios de las corporaciones a las salas de reunión de Naciones Unidas, están surgiendo reglas acerca de cómo invertir “responsablemente” en tierras agrícolas.

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