An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
Event aims to support “win-win” arrangements whereby investors and host countries can both benefit from international investment, supporting national or regional food security aims.
- US and Japanese Governments
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12 April 2010
The Commission plans to launch a joint initiative with the African Union that will include a roadmap for the implementation of "sustainable large-scale investments in farmland".
"En Mali vamos a hacer movilizaciones frente a ese acaparamiento de tierras."
- Baserribizia
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24 February 2010
LA ONU ha presentado un estudio en el que informa sobre la masiva compra de tierras que países poderosos, e incluso multinacionales, están llevando a cabo en África.
- Noticias de Guipuzkoa
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21 February 2010
Three options both governments were looking at are whether Egyptian investors would own and cultivate farmland, whether land would be owned in partnership with Egypt and Uganda, or whether land would be owned as a concession right.
Un fenómeno en pleno auge se está produciendo: la compra o arrendamiento por parte de países ricos de tierras fértiles en naciones pobres, principalmente de África, para asegurarse el suministro de alimentos.
- Solidaridad
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20 January 2010
Nigeria's House of Representatives passed a motion yesterday urging all tiers of government to be proactive against a new form of imperialism and land acquisition
- This Day
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11 December 2009
China se comprometió a hacer todo lo posible para ayudar a los países de África a superar la pobreza y a combatir amenazas como el cambio climático, pero es acusada de querer despojar a ese continente de sus recursos naturales.
- Costa Rica Hoy
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13 November 2009
Ama Biney escribe para Pambazuka News sobre la nueva avalancha de acaparamientos de tierras en África por parte de gobiernos extranjeros e inversores privados, movidos por el temor a una escasez mundial de alimentos provocada por el cambio climático y a una volatilidad en los precios de éstos en el mercado internacional
- Rebelion
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07 November 2009
Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.