Land grabbing of perceived “idle” and “underutilized” land must be stopped and investments, which are pro-poor, environmentally and ecologically should be promoted.
"Africa is the next destination for the world sugar industry due to huge land available in that continent," said Abinash Verma, director-general of the Indian Sugar Mills Association.
An Indian state minister-controlled sugar cooperative will sign an agreement with the government of Mozambique to operate a 17,000 ha farm near the Zambezi River under 49-year lease. The minister is also eyeing an opportunity to run a sugar mill in Kenya.
Las organizaciones pondrán en marcha una campaña nacional contra la privatización de la tierra, usurpación y saqueo de todos los recursos naturales en Mozambique.
Entrevista de activista moçambicano Boaventura Monjane.
More than 30 civil society organisations and peasant groups have decided to unite their forces in a national campaign against the privatisation of land, with the Prosavana project at the top of their list.
Mais de 30 organizações da sociedade civil decidiram juntar esforços para defender a terra e os recursos naturais. As organizações, que incluem movimentos de camponeses, vão lançar ainda este ano uma campanha nacional contra privatização da terra.
Dr. Sayaka Funada-Classen discusses the issue of “responsible research” and the ProSAVANA project in Mozambique in the context of the current post-Fukushima discussions in Japan and the work of the scholar Ruth First.
Brazil imposes limits on the acquisition of land while it pursues a project with Japan to implement agribusiness and contract farming over 10 million ha in Mozambique.
Governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares.
Ce rapport d'Econexus examine comment les gouvernements, les institutions financières internationales et les sociétés mondiales collaborent dans de nouveaux projets en Afrique pour réorganiser terres et des eaux et de créer une infrastructure industrielle sur des millions d’hectares
Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how transnational OLAM treated its so-called partners.
