Nous nous joignons aux mouvements des paysans dans la lutte contre l’accaparement des terres et pour contrer les tentatives de la Banque mondiale et de ses alliés de présenter l’expropriation des terres des paysans comme une opération responsable.
- CRBM, FIAN, Focus, FOE, GRAIN, La Via Campesina, TNI
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23 April 2012
According to worldbankpresident.org, Nigeria's finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - not exactly a foe of land grabbing - may be in the lead to become the next president of the World Bank.
Combined firm, RZ Agro Holding Ltd., will control 97,500 ha in the Rostov Region of Russia.
- World-Grain.com
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09 April 2012
The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.
O Banco Mundial prepara-se para injetar 30 milhões de dólares num fundo que compra terra arável na América Latina em nome de algumas das pessoas mais ricas do mundo
- Matutações/GRAIN
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10 June 2011
El 10 de junio de 2011, la junta directiva de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI) del Banco Mundial tiene previsto decidir sobre la conveniencia de ofrecer un préstamo esencial para Calyx Agro Ltd.
Translation of Document:Why We Oppose the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)
- La Via Campesina, FIAN, LRAN, GRAIN
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13 October 2010
Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.
- IDEF et al.
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12 December 2017
From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
- Foreign Policy
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27 April 2011
La magnitud de este fenómeno de apropiación de tierras agrícolas por parte de las financieras tiene importantes consecuencias tanto para las comunidades rurales como para los sistemas alimentarios.
Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.
- Ethics & International Affairs
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19 September 2013
The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.
Karuturi Global Ltd, the Indian multinational that made its name in the global cut flower industry and recently acquired more than 300,000 ha in Ethiopia to produce food, is continuing its painful and massive decline.
- TJN et al
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09 October 2014
As the Ukraine war sparks shortages, China looks to invest abroad to secure food supplies
Varias prominentes agencias e instituciones de financiamiento para el desarrollo están brindando su apoyo a la compañía de agronegocios canadiense Feronia, acusada de acaparamiento de tierras y abusos de derechos humanos.
As land and water become scarce, as the earth’s temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging, writes Lester Brown
- The Futurist
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03 January 2013
En avril 2019, Karuturi Global a informé ses actionnaires qu'on lui avait "accordé 15 000 hectares de terrain pour des activités agricoles" à Gambella, mais le contrat de bail n'a toujours pas été délivré par les autorités compétentes
The Russian government has actively supported foreign investment in Siberian agriculture, making 1 million hectares of arable land in the Far Eastern Federal District available to foreign buyers
- The Diplomat
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12 February 2019
Um novo estudo sobre os negócios fundiários de Moçambique conclui que desde 2006 se fizeram pelo menos 36 negócios com investidores estrangeiros para a produção de cultivos alimentares.
More Chinese companies and individuals are looking for sources of growth in the rich land of Russia's Far East region.
- China Daily
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04 December 2012
Analysts say Moscow's plan, which would attract international commodity firms, might require a more open approach to investment in land
"In the conditions of the current food crisis, development of 20 million hectares of Russian agricultural land, unused since 1991, could be re-launched," says Russia's president
"Jilin and other corporate entities in China are taking major steps to increase the amount of China-controlled soy plantation both in China and around the world," reports the US Consulate in Shenyang
- Wikileaks
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29 September 2008
Japan's big trading houses, which have enjoyed bumper years from betting on iron ore and metals, are getting into the food market, aiming to tap voracious demand in China and emerging economies.
On the Canadian prairies, some worry about a future where two or three massive farms, or investors, control most of the land in a municipality.
- Western Producer
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11 May 2023
Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.
- The Crimson
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17 April 2023
La mise en location de millions d’hectares de terre malgaches, sous forme de bail emphytéotique, à des investisseurs, notamment étrangers, comme méthode de développer le pays et son agriculture est prônée par les dirigeants malgaches dans le Programme Sectoriel de l’Agriculture, Elevage et Pêche 2016-2020
Circle of Blue have put together an interactive map of land grabs by country and by sector.
- Circle of Blue
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22 June 2012
The government and companies are joining hands to expand the country’s overseas farming bases, establish a direct import channel and modernize agricultural production and distribution.