Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.
Le Centre pour l’environnement et le développement dénonce la concession de 73 000 hectares accordée par l’État camerounais à une société américaine qui vise une production annuelle de 400 000 tonnes d’huile de palme. 25 000 riverains seraient affectés par ce projet.
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in the domain of human rights, it is silent on the issue of land grabs. This is a gap that the AU needs to plug.
Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the Ethiopian government for commercial agricultural development, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.
The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.
New book explains the reasons behind the land grab phenomenon and why so many Ethiopians are not only alarmed but also adamantly opposed to it.
Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.
"The Big Banana" shows the effects of an export banana plantation on the Mungo area of Cameroon
Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".
Land-Grabbing is slowly becoming a serious problem in Tanzania with the poor being turned into landless citizens in their own country in the name of foreign investors.
Ukraine should not sell farmland to foreigners so local producers can improve agricultural output says Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.
Kilombero Plantations Limited chief executive officer Carter Coleman talks about his company's large-scale farming operations in Tanzania, including the removal of the "Project Affected Persons" previously farming the lands.
Government-backed companies, as Hassad Food, have begun buying up farmland around the world, with Australia’s vast tracts of top quality primary production land a prime target.
A new report published this week claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their traditional lands to make way for vast new industrial farming projects backed by European hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food.
UAE is ready to build small dams for cultivation on lands they would acquire in Pakistan, provided the government ensures that there is no ban on exports.
Internationally-funded Guatemalan palm oil and sugar cane interests evict Mayan Qeqchi families from their historic lands, destroying homes and crops, killing one, injuring more, while thousands are without food or shelter.
Mohd Bakke Salleh, president and group chief executive of Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur earlier today that the group has identified 300,000 hectares (ha) of land in Cameroon that could be suitable for palm oil plantation.
News of the deal has aroused very vehement protest from the Sudanese Farmer’s Union and the tenants in the Gezira Scheme.
By 2014, the area under rice cultivation is expected to reach 5,000 hectares, and the harvest is projected at 57,000 tonnes of rice a year.
The participants will explore emerging trends in agriculture in GCC states and Africa and debate on how to turn them into mutually beneficial business relations between the two sides.
The farner’s union claims that the Malibya deal was done behind closed doors and then presented as a fait accompli, a deal that effectively hands over control of Mali’s main rice growing region to a foreign power.
Malgré une loi d’orientation agricole votée en 2006 et affirmant la priorité à l’agriculture familiale, les perspectives sont alarmantes pour la paysannerie et la souveraineté alimentaire du Mali. L’accaparement des terres par de grandes sociétés, le plus souvent étrangères, prend de l’ampleur.
Ernesto Tzi, directeur de l’ONG guatémaltèque Sank, expose les enjeux autour de la terre dans son pays et les solutions qu’il développe pour protéger les agriculteurs.
La Banque mondiale a organisé une vidéo conférence la semaine dernière sur « la problématique de l’accaparement des terres : quelles implications pour les collectivités locales » dans le cadre du programme Forum d’animation pour la Gouvernance locale en Afrique francophone.
Le rêve d’Amadou Toumani Touré de « faire du Mali une puissance agricole » est-il en train de se réaliser??
“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture
Les pays du Golfe cherchent à stimuler la production alimentaire dans d'autres pays pour soutenir leurs populations croissantes.
Le Comité de la sécurité alimentaire (CSA) de l'Onu s'est contenté de "prendre note" d'un code de conduite sur les investissements fonciers à l'étranger, sans pour autant l'adopter, au grand dam d'ONG défendant les petits exploitants agricoles de pays en développement.
L'idée qui germe au Japon de consacrer une partie des énormes réserves de change du pays à l'achat de matières premières industrielles est susceptible, si elle est appliquée, de provoquer des bouleversements économiques et financiers.
