En définissant comme "intérêt national" ou "bien national" des projets de développement liés à la terre, qui ne respectent pas la notion du droit au développement, qui génèrent des migrations et aboutissent à des violations inextricables des droits fondamentaux de la population et des communautés locales, les Etats abusent du pouvoir qui leur est octroyé aussi bien par la communauté nationale qu’internationale.
- Afriques en lutte
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25 January 2013
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
Today, more than a quarter of all the land in Liberia is leased or owned by logging, mining, or factory-style agriculture companies. Nothing is wrong with that — unless you happen to be one of the people who used to live on that land.
- Boston Globe
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20 February 2013
Il n'est pas exagéré de dire que cette façon de faire s'apparente plus à une forme de génocide qu'à du néo-colonialisme.
Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion
Karuturi Global Limited, société holding de droit indien et dont le siège est situé à Bangalore, peut se retrouver sous la loupe de l'administration fiscale du Kenya pour fraude fiscale, mais les plaintes déposées contre elle vont plus loin.
Delegates demand that land should not be recklessly sold to foreigners during proceedings at Zambia's National Constitution Convention in Lusaka.
- The Times of Zambia
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19 April 2013
With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good examples tend to be forgotten
- The Water Channel
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23 April 2013
There is "a wall of money" looking for a home in agricultural investments worldwide, say managers for BlackRock's London-based World Agriculture Fund.
- The Australian
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27 April 2013
Les résultats d’une première étude sur le phénomène de la cession des grandes superficies de terres en Afrique de l’Ouest viennent d’être publiés à Abidjan.
Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.
On 29th May, farmers in the Polish Region of West Pomerania organised a protest against land grabbing.
The issues surrounding farmland investment are not, however, restricted to developing countries. The preliminary results of the 2012 Iowa Farmland Ownership Survey compiled every five years by Iowa State University
- Land Commodities
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14 June 2013
The EU's bioeconomy vision is fuelling land grabs in Africa.
On the margins of the annual World Bank land and poverty conference in April a donor roundtable agreed to establish a first global donor working group on land, which was launched recently. Video interview with the first chair of the group, from DFID.
- Donor Platform
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01 September 2013
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
The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.
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.
“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
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.
An ABC Rural investigation reveals the extent of the creep of foreign ownership in the Top End, particularly over the past three years.
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
MIGA—the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group—plays an important role in making agricultural FDI more effective by reducing investors’ perceived risks to encourage market entry while applying environmental and social performance standards that boost the project’s sustainability.