• How African politicians gave away $100bn of land
    • The Africa Report
    • 02 July 2012

    With minimal consultation, governments and local authorities are signing away huge tracts of land for lease on the cheap. Now communities are raising their voices in opposition to these projects that bring little local development.

  • Acaparamiento de tierras falta con aviso a Río+20
    • IPS
    • 17 May 2012

    La propiedad agraria y los derechos comunitarios a la tierra no están contemplados en los debates de la próxima Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realizará del 20 al 22 de junio en la ciudad brasileña de Río de Janeiro.

  • El África expropiada
    • Cadena Ser
    • 13 May 2012

    En plena crisis global, África sufre el desembarco de los países del norte que acaparan tierras a un ritmo endiablado de hasta 32 millones de hectáreas en sólo un año. Más o menos el doble de la superficie que se cultiva actualmente en España. Los campesinos no sólo pierden su derecho a cultivar esa tierra sino también a vivir en ella. En cualquier caso, están condenados a no hacerlo al perder lo que se conoce como "Soberanía Alimentaria", su capacidad para producir sus propios alimentos.

  • Uganda says could eject Oxfam over land grab claims
    • Reuters
    • 09 May 2012

    Uganda has threatened to kick out Oxfam after the British charity accused the government of complicity in violent land grabs for commercial gains, according to the interior ministry.

  • Museveni angry over NGO report on land grabbing
    • The Independent
    • 06 May 2012

    Two international organisations, Oxfam and Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), face de-registration for what government calls inciting violence over land issues.

  • World Bank under attack for aiding land grabs in Uganda
    • The Independent
    • 06 May 2012

    BIDCO project wreaks environmental havoc, hunger, and human rights abuse in Kalangala

  • “Las empresas que roban nuestras tierras cultivan café y fruta en ellas”
    • Diagonal Periódico
    • 03 May 2012

    Janet Mary Akiteng denuncia el acaparamiento de tierras de campesinos de Uganda

  • Land rights and the World Bank Group: Setting the record straight
    • FOE
    • 03 May 2012

    Responding to concerns raised by Friends of the Earth International and others about the impacts of land grabbing, The World Bank claims that land lease deals in developing countries can reduce hunger and poverty, and build sustainable agriculture. The facts tell otherwise.

  • Apologise or face closure, Government tells Uganda Land Alliance
    • ULA
    • 30 April 2012

    The price for Alliance’s investigations into cases of land grabbing has been set so high that once paid it will become extremely risky for anyone to question the vices of land grabbing and forceful evictions of innocent citizens.

  • Un informe destapa las graves consecuencias de inversiones agrícolas en población local de Uganda
    • Boletín Agrario
    • 26 April 2012

    Elaborado por Amigos de la Tierra Uganda, denuncia la expansión descontrolada de cultivos bioenergéticos en las islas de Kalangala en el lago Victoria.

  • Campaigners claim World Bank helps facilitate land grabs in Africa
    • The Guardian
    • 23 April 2012

    Food shortages and rural deprivation exacerbated by World Bank policy, says NGO ahead of land and poverty conference

  • New report uncovers land grab in Uganda
    • FOE
    • 23 April 2012

    Released on the eve of a World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a new report reveals widespread violations of people’s rights and environmental destruction from a land grab initially funded by the World Bank in Uganda.

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