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25 Oct 2011Al Jazeera
Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
24 Oct 2011BBC
Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.
21 Oct 2011ASO/EJOLT/GRAIN
Grabbing Gambela
Short video documentary about a massive takeover of agricultural lands in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia.
19 Oct 2011Canal Solidario
Hambruna en África y privatización de tierras
En este video/entrevista, Esther Vivas analiza los vínculos entre la hambruna en el Cuerno de África y la creciente oleada de privatización y acaparamiento de tierras en el continente.
17 Oct 2011Al Jazeera
Land grabs: Threat or opportunity?
With 75% of the world's population making their living from farming, buying land in foreign countries to feed your country's growing population is not always welcome by the locals. Are land grabs good business or is it morally questionable?
11 Oct 2011Al Jazeera
China interest in Argentina land irks locals
Farmers worried about damage that comes with the excessive use of chemicals in large-scale agriculture.
11 Oct 2011Radio Mundo Real
Derechos contra la carestía
Representantes de campesinos, indígenas, pastores y pescadores artesanales dieron un claro mensaje a los gobiernos: para enfrentar la crisis alimentaria y el constante aumento de precios se debe detener el acaparamiento de tierras.
10 Oct 2011FT
Major pension fund invests in farm land
Roger Ferguson, chief executive of TIAA-CREF, says his firm is increasingly acquiring farmland in the US, Eastern Europe, Australia and Brazil as long term investments.
05 Oct 2011Bloomberg
Morgan bet farm in Ukraine before bailout
Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.
04 Oct 2011Pronat TV
Sénégal : Réportage vidéo de la marche de Fanaye contre l'accaparement des terres
Grande rassemblement contre le projet du groupe italien Senhuile SA pour l’exploitation de 20 mille hectares de graines de tournesols dans la communauté rurale de Fanaye.
03 Oct 2011Université de Montréal
La ruée sur les terres
Rodolphe De Koninck, professeur à l'Université de Montréal, nous explique les causes et les conséquences de ce phénomène.
29 Sep 2011BBC
BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
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