Conversation with Maria Antonelli about the main drivers and implications of land transactions around the world, with a particular focus both on the role of EU.
- ClimateScience&Policy
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22 October 2014
The global population is rising steadily — but food production is not. The result? More demand for arable land, as nations invest to safeguard their food supply and their wealth
A new report by FIAN informs about the human rights violations of communities affected by land grabbing in Mali
Karuturi Global Ltd, la multinacional india que hizo su fama en el mercado global de la industria de flores cortadas y que recientemente adquirió más de 300 mil hectáreas en Etiopía para producir alimentos para los mercados extranjeros, continúa su dolorosa e impresionante caída.
- TJN et al
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13 October 2014
The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.
- Pambazuka
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10 October 2014
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
"My particular case is not just to intimidate me, but to silence all further reports on [Karuturi] and his company's operations in Africa," Acharya told CPJ.
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.
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.
- NIgeria Tribune
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07 October 2014
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.
- Channel News
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07 October 2014
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.
- Policy Review
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06 October 2014
How did such a promising idea (which appeared to offer a textbook example of a win-win situation) fail?
Video by Alfredo Bini explores the phenomenon of land grabs through the eyes of foreign investors, governments and the people on the land.
- Grassroots International
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24 September 2014
Après des années de campagnes, il est temps de s’interroger sur les résultats acquis : la mobilisation des ONG a-t-elle réellement fait reculer les expropriations de terre ?
- Ouestaf News
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23 September 2014
Les terres agricoles ne sont pas les seules cibles de puissants intérêts privés, de grandes entreprises ou de gros investisseurs. Littoraux, mangroves ou récifs coralliens sont aussi convoités.
- Basta !
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19 September 2014
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.
The Partnership League for Africa’s Development presents the STOP Africa Land Grab Concert to bring awareness to the on-going massive land acquisition in Africa by foreign investors.
- Black News
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09 September 2014
Indonesia's outgoing president is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent.
- Reuters
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08 September 2014
The ProSavana agriculture programme is causing environmental degradation and the near extinction of indigenous communities in the savannah regions of northern Mozambique.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders calls upon the authorities of Cameroon to put an end to all acts of harassment against Besingi and all other human rights defenders in Cameroon.
Parliamentarians of the SADC-Parliamentary Forum and the Pan-African Parliament debate on strategies to ensure that foreign investment in agriculture brings benefits to local populations
L’impact des investissements étrangers dans l’agriculture de l’Afrique australe feront l’objet d’un débat entre les membres du Forum Parlementaire de la SADC et du Parlement Panafricain.
Despite earlier commitments that safeguards on land rights would be strengthened, the proposed policy changes would gut essential requirements necessary to prevent displacement, impoverishment, and environmental damage.
- Inclusive Development International
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30 July 2014
Liberia's Jogbahn Clan is at the forefront of efforts to resist the grab of land and forests for palm oil plantations. But the country's President says they are only 'harrassing and extorting' international investors.
- The Ecologist
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18 July 2014
The integrated rice milling facility is situated at the heart of Olam’s 6,000-hectare greenfield irrigated and mechanised paddy farm in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State.
A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
- Foreign Policy
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11 July 2014
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South
As negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project.
This month, one of Britain’s biggest sugar producing companies resigned from a voluntary ethical sugar initiative it founded amid suggestions of illegal land-grabbing.
- food-navigator
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24 June 2014