Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion
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
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Building land inventories, Wikipedia-style, would be a cheap and easy way for poor, rural communities to compile a record of property rights and land usage patterns and could reduce corruption and help lessen illegal land grabs.
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.
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.
Alors que des achats de terres agricoles par des investisseurs étrangers, notamment asiatiques, ont pu émouvoir l'opinion publique ces dernières années, que représente ce phénomène en France et dans le monde ?
Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.
- Watershed Sentinel
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07 Mar 2013
Located in the heart of sunflower country about 350 km from the Buenos Aires port, CHS AGRO will grow and process sunflower kernel and in-shell products for global marketing and distribution by CHS. Each company will hold 50 percent ownership in CHS AGRO.
- PR Newswire
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27 February 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
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
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
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
Après le groupe Louis Dreyfus, le deuxième plus gros investisseur français dans les terres agricoles se nomme Vincent Bolloré.
Anuak indigenous people from Ethiopia’s Gambella region submitted a complaint today to the World Bank Inspection Panel implicating the Bank in grave human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ethiopian Government.
Though farmland investing has been around for more than 20 years and Callan has covered the asset class for more than 12 years, it was only within the last 2 years that Shen saw an explosion in client interest.
- Business Wire
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24 September 2012
One of the greatest threats Africa has ever faced is the impact from this new phenomenon of land-grabbing
- AllAfrica
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21 September 2012
Cartogram of land grabs led by foreign investors after 2006
- Peter Giovanni
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15 September 2012
Jusqu’à maintenant, les efforts déployés pour réglementer les accaparements de terres étaient le fait des institutions internationales. Maintenant, le secteur privé s’engage à définir ses propres règles du jeu.
Disclosure is the only option. To deny that products have their origins in land leased or purchased under dubious circumstances will only push discerning consumers away. The “fair use” or “land grab free” labels could find their way on food and other products in the coming decade.
- Triple Pundit
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28 August 2012
From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. Rather than help financial and corporate elites to "responsibly invest" in farmland, we need them to stop and divest.
Given the power imbalances at play, it is folly to assume that land-seekers will suddenly embrace, en masse, a set of voluntary rules promoting sustainable and equitable investor practices, says Michael Kugelman
- Sustainable Security
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02 August 2012
The AgriSol investment is a good case in justifying that in Tanzania it is the state which grabs on behalf of the investors as opposed in other areas where land is acquired illegally.
Between the farmers and Olam lies one of Lao’s most powerful, and some allege, corrupt families, the Siphandones.
Indigenous people in Cameroon claim a company is stealing communal land to build a palm oil plantation -- a dispute that could lead to conflict, hunger and human rights abuses.
En el informe se asegura que, desde el año 2000, casi un 5% de las tierras agrícolas del África fueron compradas o arrendadas por distintos inversionistas.
- Global Voices
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10 May 2012
A global food crisis and rapid population growth are making farmland an increasingly attractive investment. Holly Black looks at the options.
Dalla Al Baraka, a Saudi conglomerate with $5 billion in annual revenue, has acquired two million acres of farmland in eastern Sudan to produce food for export to the Middle Eastern kingdom. While the investors are hoping to wean Saudi Arabia off imports from South America, such agreements cause concern among local Sudanese farmers.
An international coalition of NGOs and research groups has published the world's largest database of land grab deals struck since 2000, offering unprecedented detail on who's investing, where and what for.
- The Guardian
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27 April 2012
Meeting of delegates from eight districts and twenty chiefdoms affected by large scale land acquisitions for agribusiness in Sierra Leone ends with formation of a coalition to serve as a watchdog on land issues in the country.