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24 Apr 2013Infos Gabon

Gabon-Maroc : Ali Bongo Ondimba ouvre le Gabon-Vert aux investisseurs

Le Gabon Vert, fort de ses 5 millions d’hectares cultivables, est ouvert aux investisseurs.

20 Mar 2013UEA

Research reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands

High-speed conversion and land-grabbing has intensified pressure on already threatened species and on the marginalised rural communities that depend on the grassland ecosystem.

08 Mar 2013

Acaparamiento de agua: hidrocolonialismo y suicidio socio-ambiental

La matriz de uso del agua a nivel mundial identifica a la agricultura como el mayor consumidor de este recurso, aproximadamente el 70% del agua que se extrae es empleada en los sistemas agropecuarios.

15 Jan 2013IRIN

Briefing: Transformer les déserts égyptiens en terrains agricoles

Une délégation du ministère de l’Agriculture de l'Egypte se prépare à se rendre au Soudan cette année pour examiner la possibilité de cultiver du blé sur un total de 470 000 hectares de terres soudanaises.

11 Jan 2013SciDevNet

Acaparamiento de agua se da en ‘tasas alarmantes’

Los tratados por los cuales compañías y países extranjeros compran o arriendan tierras agrícolas en el extranjero significa que se apropian de casi medio billón de metros cúbicos de agua dulce cada año –lo suficiente para cultivar alimentos y abatir la desnutrición en los países “saqueados”

07 Jan 20133quarksdaily

A parched future: Global land and water grabbing

Rulli and colleagues estimate that global land grabbing is associated with the grabbing of 308 billion m3 of green water (i.e. rain water) and an additional grabbing of blue water that can range from 11 billion m3 (current irrigation practices) to 146 billion m3 (maximal irrigation) per year. To put these numbers in perspective, the average daily household consumption of water in the UK is 150 liters (0.15 m3) per person.

02 Jan 2013PNAS

Global land and water grabbing

It is found that about 0.31 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of green water (i.e., rainwater) and up to 0.14 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of blue water (i.e., irrigation water) are appropriated globally for crop and livestock production in 47 × 106 ha of grabbed land worldwide (i.e., in 90% of the reported global grabbed land).

14 Dec 2012National Geographic

Grabbing at solutions: Water for the hungry first

This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.

28 Nov 2012Palabre-ando

Regar con lágrimas

Que la agricultura industrial está detrás del uso intensivo del agua es una realidad no suficientemente conocida ni denunciada, sobretodo cuando sabemos que usa más agua de ríos, lagos y acuíferos que la que reponen las lluvias o las nieves.

06 Nov 2012Bloomberg

China buys Japan water rights on two-decade land price slump

A two-decade slump in Japan’s real estate prices, an incomplete land registry and lax rules on buying forest with water rights are attracting investors led by China.

30 Oct 2012Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho a la Alimentación

El 'acaparamiento de océanos’ representa una amenaza tan seria como el ‘acaparamiento de tierras’

El Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre el derecho a la alimentación, Olivier De Schutter, advirtió hoy sobre la amenaza que el ‘acaparamiento de los océanos’ representa para la seguridad alimentaria.

01 Oct 2012IISD

Farmland and water: China invests abroad

The authors found reports of 86 Chinese agriculture projects covering 9 million hectares of land in developing countries. They were able to confirm the existence of 55 projects covering 4.9 million hectares.

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