L'accaparement des terres comme une forme de néo-colonialisme n'est pas une question de noms et d’origines, mais simplement une question liée à l'expansion mondiale du système capitaliste.

Rising demand for agricultural commodities has led to a ‘land grab’ in some of the world’s poorest countries. The International Bar Associaiton assesses the legal implications and the prospects for the developing world.

La vraie « réforme foncière » que le plan secret de Ouattara semble viser pourrait avoir pour conséquence de faire des attributions de certificats fonciers qui seront assurément contestées demain

"La destruction à perte de vue de nos forêts nous amènera à chasser et à cultiver très loin de nos villages", affirme Jules Itoua, un habitant de Yengo, au nord du Congo-Brazzaville, ajoutant avec regret: "Ils nous ont presque chassés d'ici sans le déclarer".

Singapore yesterday sought “strong, firm, effective” action against Singaporean companies that may be involved in illegal burning in Indonesia that led to the city-state’s worst pollution on record.

Today, Fahamu Networks for Social Justice is hosting a national conference of social movements and other actors in Kenya to review the implementation process of the National Land Policy.

Farmland has become the darling of alternative investing, sending hedge funds and wealthy investors into bidding wars for plots of land once deemed ordinary. And it is not just big money getting in on the game. From Stockholm to Chicago to Vancouver, ordinary investor money is pouring into fields around the world.

Selon le président de la Commission des marchés financiers, la participation des investisseurs camerounais à l’appel public à l’achat des actions de SIAT Gabon est « une opération risquée ».

Karuturi Global faces accusations of causing floods to local villages, not paying taxes, contributing to human rights violations and providing dismal working conditions at its farming operations in Gambela, Ethiopia.

Les témoignages que l'on entend dans les villages de Ndiael, au Sénégal, nous narrent une histoire bien connue.

Groups strongly reject and condemn the G8’s proposed transparency initiative.

Everywhere in Africa the story is more or less the same: communal rights are being grossly interfered with, farming systems upturned, livelihoods decimated, and water use and environments changed in ways which are dubiously sustainable.

L’Agence pour le Développement Agricole du Maroc vient de lancer un nouvel appel d’offres de partenariat public-privé autour des terres agricoles du domaine privé de l’Etat.

Transcription d'une table ronde organisée à Paris le 8 avril 2013 avec Stefano Liberti, Olivier de Schutter, Luc Lamprière et Anne-Cécile Robert

Carl Heinrich Bruhn, cet entrepreneur allemand a loué 30 000 hectares de terres en Zambie, affirme qu'il n'est pas un accapareur de terres. Il veut que les agriculteurs locaux aient désormais accès aux engrais et aux insecticides pour augmenter leurs rendements.

Government structures across West and Central Africa are now “in a bind and divided, with some ministries choosing to hand over natural resources to agribusinesses and mining, and others seeking to protect the rights of their citizens,” according to Andy White, coordinator of RRI

La condamnation de Marc Ona Essangui, leader de la société civile gabonaise, a une peine de six mois de prison avec sursis et au paiement d’une amende de 5 millions de francs cfa a suscité une levée de boucliers hors des frontières gabonaises.

Under an obscure 50,000 ha land deal with Macdom and Rating Investments, 250,000 communal farmers stand to lose or have already lost their lands and livelihoods.

The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act was first passed in 1980 by Congress to limit foreign control over US farmland. Obama now wants things changed.

"Nous appelons à une grande mobilisation pour stopper l’accaparement des terres et soutenir les luttes paysannes locales."

We call for a mass mobilisation to stop the landgrab and support local peasants struggles.

"The UAE is looking not just at land [acquisitions] but developing the whole supply chain," says Nicholas Lodge, managing partner at Clarity, a consultancy that advises on investments in agricultural industries.

BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.

A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's Public Investment Fund sovereign wealth fund – buys Continental Farmers Group, which has large farming operations in Poland and the Ukraine.

Report examines Brazil’s programme to transform Mozambique’s Nacala corridor, the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre, and a private Chinese rice investment project in the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme.

The land grabs are not an Equatorian issue. It is a national problem that should not be looked at from a regional or tribal perspective.

As land is grabbed and earmarked for development, this often has implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.

Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.

With the largely self-evident agreement that land grabbing is wrong and all efforts should be made to prevent it, debate and effort can focus more on (i) how to prevent land grabbing, and (ii) how to enable forms of land-based investments that actually bring real benefit.

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