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Une interview avec ZAKARIA SAMBAKHE, de ACTIONAID

Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.

Creating and digitising land registries could exacerbate unfair land grabs or further marginalise people who lack formal rights to land they live on or farm.

L’accaparement des terres, la globalisation et le leadership féminin étaient au centre d’un débat entre les journalistes et les membres de la fondation pour le développement au Sahel (FDS)

L’Ong Actionaid mène une campagne autour du slogan «Touche pas à ma terre» qu’elle compte répéter à «toutes les autorités, aux ambassades, aux agro business, aux entreprises étrangères, qui viennent au Sénégal».

Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)

Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana

Africa must be developed in a rush in order to avoid a global food crisis with huge changes, including a confrontation with chiefs, the role of women and the views on collective property, says Danish Minister for Development Cooperation.

Elizabeth afirmó que las mujeres de la Vía Campesina África apuntan a destacar el papel de las mujeres en la mayoría de los temas tales como el acaparamiento de tierras y las políticas neoliberales: desafíos que enfrentan también las mujeres.

La nueva oleada de inversiones empresariales en tierras parece tener como objetivo la expansión e intensificación de un modelo de cultivo con poca visión de futuro, el cual, hasta la fecha, ha marginado las voces y los intereses de las mujeres.

Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. Marc Wegerif introduces a new Oxfam briefing paper.

Without strong interventions led by rural women themselves, corporate land deals will continue to perpetuate and deepen existing gender inequalities and contribute to increased levels of resource scarcity, poverty and conflict.