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Radio Vatican27 Jul 10Les catholiques d’Action de Carême et les protestants de Pain pour le prochain unissent leurs forces pour lutter contre une nouvelle forme de colonialisme : «L’accaparement des terres»
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Radio Australia27 Jul 10New Zealand's Green Party has drafted a bill seeking to stop overseas buyers snapping up large tracts of NZ land. Australian farmers also fear they may have trouble coping with future food and water demands if foreign interests snap up too many of the nation's agricultural resources.
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ABC25 Jul 10As the world's available farming land shrinks in the face of population growth, climate change and soil degradation, Australia's vast tracts of land are going to be increasingly important for global food security. Is the sell-off in Australia's long term interests?
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ABC25 Jul 10Foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets.
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Radio Australia12 Jul 10The Asian Development Bank is warning the region's rural sector could be expoited by international investors as concerns about global food and fuel security intensify.
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RFI07 Jul 10Près de 300 investisseurs étrangers cherchent à obtenir de la terre en Ethiopie. Qui sont ces nouveaux arrivants, quels sont les bénéfices pour les paysans locaux et pour l’Etat éthiopien ?
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ABC25 May 10"People lose their access to land simply so that rich and powerful Cambodians and foreign investors can make profit from cash crops for export."
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Radio Mundo Real28 Apr 10Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria said that these principles legitimize a new form of colonialism with grave dangers for millions of local livelihoods and the environment.
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UNCTAD26 Apr 10I am worried. A consensus is emerging among international institutions about the need to guide investment in agriculture. But at the same time, many civil society groups and farmers’ organisations, including the most representative among them, denounce ‘land-grabbing’.
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UNCTAD26 Apr 10UNCTAD's Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission met and discussed the current land grabbing trend on 26 April 2010.
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Radio Canada11 Mar 10Plusieurs pays avec une forte croissance démographique cherchent à acquérir des terres agricoles hors de leurs frontières, avec en toile de fond la crise alimentaire. Cette quête conduit notamment des entreprises chinoises à s'intéresser à des terres arables au Québec.
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France Inter01 Mar 10Première destination l'Ethiopie, l’un des pays où cette question se pose avec beaucoup d’acuité. Deuxième destination la Chine qui a un grand besoin de nouvelles terres. Troisième destination Madagascar, où le projet d’achat de terre par Daewoo a été complètement abandonné.
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BBC 4 (Radio)25 Feb 10"What they are saying is that the local people are now suffering very badly as a direct result of these foreign companies taking over."
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BBC Radio 422 Feb 10Bill Law investigates the causes and consequences of the great global land grab. Tonight, episode one in Kenya.
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VoA18 Feb 10BKK Partners, an Australian financial advisory firm, has a client that wants to buy 100,000 ha of Cambodian farmland. Human rights workers and politicians are concerned.
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WSR16 Feb 10In the last four years, an area the size of Germany has been bought or rented to produce food and fuel in Africa. But not by Africans, nor for Africans, say critics.
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Hub Rural29 Jan 10Le Syndicat national des paysans du Bénin a organisé fin janvier 2010 un atelier de 4 jours de réflexion pour élaborer un plan de travail contre les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle.
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CBC14 Jan 10Agribusiness sees a global market for arable land, but the developing world might be selling off its future food security. CBC Radio programme, focusing on Sierra Leone.
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France Culture17 Dec 09Main basse sur les terres agricoles : le cas de l'Afrique et le cas du Brésil.
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UNCTAD14 Dec 09UNCTAD is hosting a meeting on South-South cooperation in agricultural investment, where land grabbing is on the agenda