Le Ministère des Multinationales, de l'Exploitation, de l'Évasion fiscale et de l'Accaparement des terres vous donne rendez-vous le 10 décembre 2014.

Event focuses on education about agriculture as an asset class, responsible investment opportunities worldwide, and industry networking.

GlobalGrain, la grand’ messe des entreprises du commerce des aliments agricoles, se déroule à Genève à l’Hôtel Intercontinental. Nous serons présent·e·s pour dénoncer cette confèrence.

The four-day conference on Land Policy in Africa will be a policy and learning event. Its overall objective will be to deepen capacity for land policy in Africa through improved access to knowledge and information, in support of evidence-based land policymaking and implementation.

Throughout Melanesia, community land is being threatened. Foreign land grabs, land privatisation and foreign direct investment are pursued as a means to accelerate economic growth in the region. AID/WATCH is hosting 3 speakers from PNG and Vanuatu to travel Australia and share their experience of defending customary land

Public hearing will take stock of the land grabbing phenomenon in the EU, gather views from civil society representatives and key stakeholders, and discuss the implications of this process for the environment, jobs, the local population, rural life and food security. Interpretation will be available to and from English, French, German, Estonian and Hungarian.

Conference to assess developments and impacts of agribusiness expansion on human rights in Southeast Asia, and the existing and further efforts required from National Human Rights Institutions and Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, regional and international levels to ensure that rights are protected and international human rights law respected

The conference will explore the phenomenon of land grab. Speakers, panelists and papers will look at country case studies, challenges, advantages and disadvantages of the sale and lease of large swathes of arable land to powerful foreign individuals, multinationals and governments.

Sunday, October 26, 2014 at 3 PM Slow Food will present in Turin, Italy, the conference Land Grabbing and Ocean Grabbing: Hands Off Our Land and Sea! We will hear the speeches from Eric Holt-Giminez, Food First, United States, Ana Paula Tauacale, UNAC, Mozambique, María Luisa Albores González, Cooperativa Tosepan Titataniske, Mexico and Timothé Feodoroff, Transnational Institute, Netherlands. Moderating this meeting will be Stefano Liberti, journalist and author of “Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism” (Verso, 2013). The conference will be open to all visitors to Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre. Simultaneous translation will be provided in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. For further information: [email protected]

Vendredi 24 octobre 2014, les représentants des communautés issues de 5 pays (Cameroun, Cambodge, Libéria, Côte d’Ivoire et Sierra Leone) touchées par les accaparements de terre ont rendez-vous à Paris avec le groupe Bolloré pour entamer les négociations.

Conférence de presse à 12h30 devant Le Méridien Etoile, 81 bd Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 75017 Paris (Mº Pte Maillot)

CONTACTS MEDIAS
Emmanuel Elong, représentant camerounais de l’Alliance : 06 27 01 05 36
Eloïse Maulet, coordinatrice du ReAct : 06 38 01 25 94, [email protected]