African farmers fear large food production programme of Japan
- TBS
- 04 June 2013
TBS News visits Mozambique to look into why farmers are opposed to Japan's agricultural development programme with Brazil.
TBS News visits Mozambique to look into why farmers are opposed to Japan's agricultural development programme with Brazil.
The scale and pace of the large scale acquisition of land — or land grabbing — in the developing world in the last decade is unprecedented and is having disastrous consequences for the world’s poor.
Actualmente, la Costa peruana contaría con 863 mil hectáreas de tierras de cultivo. De esta superficie, cerca del 10% tendría algún grado de participación de inversionistas extranjeros. Solo Odebrecht y Maple controlan el 3%.
Augusto Mafigo, agricultor y sindicalista de Mozambique, dijo que los campesinos redoblaron sus protestas contra ProSabana porque temen que les haga perder sus pequeñas porciones de tierra cultivable cuando las compañías extranjeras se instalen.
Vendió su participación en una empresa en Brasil a la japonesa Mitsubishi Corporation.
A Chinese company isn’t buying Smithfield. A shell company based in Cayman Islands is. Instead of a story about “China buying up the world”, this turns out to be a story of a precarious leveraged buyout deal by some large global private equity firms looking to borrow their way to a fortune.
Concerns mount among civil society groups that an agriculture project in Mozambique, which Tokyo is pushing through as one of its key projects in Africa, may end up depriving local farmers of their land.
Mozambican Minister suggests "illiterate" farmers were not behind letter to President denouncing trilateral agribusiness project backed by Japan and Brazil.
Mientras que el 40% de la población subsahariana no dispone de acceso al agua potable, los inversores internacionales hacen negocio acaparando los territorios por donde transita.
As gender gains attention in the agricultural world, data and information show women as major players in food production. Over 60% of women in Sub-Saharan Africa are employed in agriculture. And according to Oxfam, “women produce more than half of all the food grown in the world.”
Overseas land acquisitions are rising, with people pushed off their land and into poverty; let's not pretend that's migration.
Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to an African land grab.