The EU's bioeconomy vision is fuelling land grabs in Africa.
As investment deals between big business and the government are made across Tanzania, those working on behalf of small-scale farmers argue that more needs to be done to ensure their needs are not overlooked.
Ce qui inquiète l’opinion publique malagasy dans ce projet a trait aux exigences de ces pays voisins de pouvoir obtenir des concessions de terres d’une superficie d’environs 20 000 ha.
La multinationale indienne qui s'était fait un nom dans le secteur des fleurs coupées au niveau mondial et a récemment acquis plus de 300 000 ha en Éthiopie pour produire des denrées alimentaires à destination des marchés étrangers, poursuit son déclin douloureux et généralisé.
- TJN et al
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13 October 2014
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Nasako Besingi of the NGO Struggle to Economize our Future Environment (SEFE) was sentenced today for defamation by the SGSOC Company, a subsidiary of Herakles Farms of the US.
Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.
Le gouvernement cherche à remettre à plat le registre national du foncier et le cadre juridique dont les investisseurs ont besoin pour financer le secteur agricole
The ProSAVANA program intentionally weakens and creates division among peasants while there is an increased risk of even more peasants losing their land.
- No to ProSavana
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27 August 2016
Companies are betting that global appetites will increasingly rely on Black Sea soil even as obstacles to growth remain.
- Bloomberg
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15 October 2016
The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
Lutte contre le changement climatique, l’évasion fiscale ou encore l’accaparement des terres : autant de réformes censurées, vidées de leur substance ou avortées ces dernières années en France. Le rôle des lobbies là-dedans ?
Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment due to sufficient land and cheap labour. As traditional laws that once protected village land weaken, indigenous communities and farmers have repeatedly lost chunks of land facilitated by foreign investors.
- InDepth News
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05 August 2018
A new book published in Japan says China is buying up land, including farmland, in the northern prefecture and turning the island into a province of its own
- Asia Times
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20 November 2017
Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.
- RIAO et al
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28 January 2021
Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.
Le président de la Mauritanie annule l'octroi de 3 200 ha à l'AAAID (contrat de 2015) et prone à sa place des contrats tripartites Etat-investisseurs-populations
- Le 360 Afrique
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21 June 2021
Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.
Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes
- Le Soleil
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23 November 2021
« Il veut investir dans le secteur de l’agriculture. Il ne s’agit absolument pas d’acquérir des milliers d’hectares pour y faire nous-même des cultures, mais de fournir un appui technique et financier aux agriculteurs locaux, dans le respect des meilleures pratiques »
- Jeune Afrique
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24 June 2022
La REVATED a porté plainte contre Frank Timis, les sociétés Senhuile et Les Fermes de la Téranga et Gora Seck pour fraude, corruption et cession nébuleuse de 20 0000 ha
Quand on interroge les communautés rurales du pays sur leurs difficultés, c’est le manque de terre qui est cité en premier. Et les politiques menées par le gouvernement n’arrangent rien !
- CNCD-11.11.11
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01 September 2022
As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.
- The Gecko Project
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12 December 2022
Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.
- Collectif TANY
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13 February 2023
Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.
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".
"The Big Banana" shows the effects of an export banana plantation on the Mungo area of Cameroon
A slew of countries and investors — from Chinese state corporations to Gulf sheiks to Wall Street firms — have started buying up farmland overseas, in an apparent attempt to acquire as much precious soil and water as possible.
- Washington Post
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26 January 2013
Les médias russes, même les plus «libéraux», et les réseaux sociaux, scandalisés, accueillent très mal la nouvelle de la location de 150.000 ha de terre à la Chine.