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Myanmar farmers helpless against land grabbing
- AP
- 11 October 2013
Foreign investors, often working with current or former military officials, are scrambling to build roads, factories, power plants, bridges and industrial-sized plantations.
Flower growers in Kenya strike against Karuturi Global
- CorpWatch
- 10 October 2013
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
"Não existem terras livres para o ProSavana" critica Calisto Ribeiro
- Deutsche Welle
- 10 October 2013
Responsável da Associação Rural de Assistência Mútua de Nampula, condena a falta de transparência do projeto de desenvolvimento agrícola e mostra-se preocupado com a "usurpação de terras dos camponeses".
Briefing: Responsible agricultural investment
- Glopolis
- 10 October 2013
In the occasion of Committe on World Food Security session in Rome Glopolis is publishing a briefing on responsible agricultural investment which is one of the main issues discussing during this forum.
ProSavana e face oculta do Prodecer
- UNAC
- 10 October 2013
Desde seu lançamento, o ProSavana é acusado de tentar destruir a agricultura moçambicana por meio de uma “invasão de megaprodutores brasileiros”, que “se utilizariam de financiamento japonês”, em uma “repetição do processo que destruiu o Cerrado brasileiro”.
Investors must surrender Idle farmland-President Jakaya Kikwete
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 October 2013
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Cotu demands the arrest of Naivasha Karuturi officials
- The Standard
- 09 October 2013
Central Organisation of Trade Unions has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the management of a flower farm owned by the Indian company, Karuturi.
Argentina: Santiago: Cerca del 6% de las tierras es de extranjeros
- Nuevo Diario
- 09 October 2013
Lo informó la Directora del Registro Nacional del área, quien visita Santiago para brindar una charla en la UNSE. El porcentaje es aún mayor en tres departamentos.
La NASAN contribuera au développement agricole du pays (ministre)
- APS
- 08 October 2013
La Nouvelle alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (NASAN) contribuera au développement agricole et à l'émergence économique du Sénégal, a estimé mardi à Dakar Papa Abdoulaye Seck, le ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Equipement rural.
Foreign buyer for Northern Territory farm
- North Queensland Register
- 08 October 2013
The Insight Global Farmland Fund, has snapped up Forrest Hill Station in the Northern Territory and all its cattle for $6.4 million in a deal negotiated by Elders.
Au Mali, on dénonce l’accaparement des terres et les expulsions
- RFI
- 07 October 2013
C'est la Journée mondiale de l’habitat ce lundi 7 octobre 2013. L’occasion de se concentrer sur ces fléaux que sont, dans le monde entier et tout particulièrement en Afrique, les phénomènes d’accaparement des terres et d’expulsions forcées.
África, granero del mundo
- El País
- 07 October 2013
Siete de los 15 países en los que más está creciendo la producción agrícola son africanos. Los expertos ven un gran potencial, pero también importantes riesgos