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Politis02 Sep 10Antoine Bouhey explique les méfaits de l’accaparement des terres par de grands investisseurs sur les populations locales. Un phénomène qui prend de l’ampleur, notamment en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud.
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Business Report01 Sep 1045 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban
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Reuters24 Aug 10African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters
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Afrik.com06 Aug 10Les Kenyans ont adopté hier par référendum une nouvelle Constitution qui, concernant le foncier, envisage la possibilité de supprimer la propriété perpétuelle pour les étrangers en la ramenant à un bail de 99 ans au lieu des 999 ans actuels.
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Business Daily04 Aug 10Foreign land barons are using millions of shillings to hire elite law firms for advice on how to protect their property should Kenyans pass the proposed Constitution — that bars them from owning land — in Wednesday's vote.
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Economic Times13 Jun 10Indian tea companies, among others, are making a beeline to acquire estates in Africa. And the government is facilitating their hunt for good deals.
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http://www.e24.se/makro/varlden/rik-jord-i-nya-hander_2086889.e2405 May 10De senaste åren har jordbruksmark i Afrika blivit ett glödhett investeringsobjekt för både stater och privata intressen. På lokal nivå hamnar världens fattiga ofta i kläm. I Nyanzaprovinsen i västra Kenya fick byborna se sitt levebröd försvinna ner i gapet på ett amerikanskt risföretag.
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Business Daily04 May 10"Investors like Citadel Capital and Goldman Sachs must be stopped from acquiring large tracts of land in Africa because this practice has become a serious threat to the continent's food sovereignty"
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IPS19 Apr 10The recent large-scale acquisition of land in Kenya and in Africa in general happens on murky terrain as governments negotiate behind closed doors.
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FIAN16 Apr 10Un nuevo informe publicado hoy por FIAN Internacional documenta las conclusiones de dos misiones investigadoras sobre el acaparamiento de tierras en Kenia y Mozambique, y concluye que éste viola los derechos humanos.
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FIAN16 Apr 10A new report by FIAN International documents land grabbing in Kenya & Mozambique and concludes that land grabbing violates human rights.
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Business Daily12 Apr 10Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital is seeking to buy Kenya’s firms and long-term land leases as it seeks agro-based raw materials to feed its food business.
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Ratio Magazine24 Feb 10Citadel's Karim Sadek dismisses talk of land grabbing as an “academic concern”, saying “there should definitely be a priority for the produce to be sold on the local market, if there is a paying market for it”.
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BBC Radio 422 Feb 10Bill Law investigates the causes and consequences of the great global land grab. Tonight, episode one in Kenya.
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Business Daily04 Feb 10The State has stepped up the drive to buy idle land to make available to investors, hoping to snap up vast fallow land across the Rift Valley and Coast provinces and towns near Nairobi.
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AGTER19 Jan 10Accaparement des terres - cas du Kenya - par AGTER
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Business Daily29 Dec 09Citadel Capital will deploy significant capital across East Africa in 2010 in sectors spanning from agriculture to consumer foods.
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Bad Idea Magazine18 Dec 09While Von Braun’s sunny view on land leases can become a reality, the tensions caused by the international sale of domestic arable land is prompting local farmers to create their own agricultural initiatives, in order to protect themselves from the vagaries of such policies.
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FIAN10 Dec 09"On today's Human Rights Day, we demand that States fulfill their obligation to respect and protect the right to food of their citizens and abroad by preventing large scale land grabbing" says Sofia Monsalve of FIAN International.
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![Taking land from African farmers unfair]( "Taking land from African farmers unfair")
Daily Skiff03 Dec 09After signing a 25-year lease from Kenya's Lands Ministry in Nairobi, Burgess made auxiliary payments to various groups to ensure that the plan could continue unhindered. Unfortunately, the people of the Luo tribe and members of other tribes in similar situations are unhappy.