The Chaco – which stretches across Argentina and Paraguay – is now being ripped up and converted to US-style ranchland by bulldozers even faster than it was before and the few Indians who live there have never felt more threatened, writes John Vidal
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Agriculture calls Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine “probable countries of investment” in farmland and confirms Kingdom's continued interest in farmland in south Sudan.
Entretien avec Djigo Moussa, président du comité de suivi des affaires foncières, une structure mise en place par les représentants de 60 villages de la Moughata’a de Boghé pour produire un document par lequel, les populations feront valoir leurs droits sur les terres du Brakna mises à disposition d’investisseurs saoudiens par les autorités mauritaniennes.
“We have opened a new page with the Egyptian government,” Alwaleed said at a news conference with Egyptian PM Essam Sharaf. “We call on Arab and international investors to return to Egypt as soon as possible.”
KADCO, part of Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co, now owns 10,000 feddans [more than 10,000 ha] in southern Egypt while cultivating another 15,000 feddans that it will get ownership of at a later date.
Pour les populations locales, il s’agit en fait « d’un projet d’accaparement des terres, d’expropriation. »
Lors d’une assemblée générale des délégués de 60 localités qui s’est tenue le 27 Mai 2011 au siège de l’Association Mauritanienne pour l’Auto Développement (AMAD) à Boghé les représentants des populations locales ont, dans leur écrasante majorité, exprimé leur désaccord vis-à-vis du projet d’attribution de 40.000 hectares de terres rendu public dans un avis préfectoral affiché dans les locaux de la Moughata’a.
Gulf states have opted to buy up large tracts of farmland in developing countries in a bid to safeguard their food supplies – a strategy that risks exporting their water shortages to other nations, analysts said.
Sri Lanka's Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen invites Saudi businessmen to invest in Sri Lanka and says his country can cultivate agricultural crops for Saudi Arabia.
La crisis financiera de 2008 ha despertado al mundo de las finanzas que ha visto en la agricultura un nuevo mercado. El repentino interés de los inversores por las tierras, se debe a que se han dado cuenta de que con este tipo de inversión no corren riego de quiebra.
The Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development recently released the Land Rent Contractual Agreements for land leases between the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and twenty-four companies or individuals.
Film traces the story of the current mad race for control of farmlands, and the consequences it could have if nothing is done to protect the interests of small farmers and developing countries.
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