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Oromo nationals in Berlin staged a peaceful demonstration to protest against Meles Zenawi’s sale of farmlands in Oromia to local and international land speculators and to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
Rafael Rojas, left, picks lettuce with a crew working for independent farmer Danny Andrews on this farm land in southwestern Kern County. Casey Christie / The Californian
Farmer Danny Andrews does business on the phone while walking through a field where his crews are picking lettuce. Casey Christie / The Californian
Independent farmer Danny Andrews, right, and a field supervisor, Jesse Hernandez, walk through a field of lettuce where Andrews' crews are currently picking lettuce off Copus Road. Casey Christie / The Californian
Farmworkers including Jesse Hernandez, left, pick fields of lettuce Thursday afternoon near Copus Road in southwest Kern County. They work for independent farmer Danny Andrews. Casey Christie / The Californian
La lutte contre l'accaparement des terres est un combat contre le capitalisme, le néolibéralisme et contre un modèle économique prédateur.
Dennis Garrity : "La plupart de ces investisseurs fonciers ne savent pas du tout dans quoi ils s'embarquent. Ils prennent souvent l'approche simpliste d'utiliser une grande technologie pour développer de grandes plantations et les communautés traditionnelles sont tout simplement écartées. C’est totalement inacceptable."
Passengers in a pirogue watch Fulani herders cross the Niger river with their cattle on the outskirts of Mopti, Mali. Photograph: Florin Iorganda/Reuters
A Somali girl carries a pot filled with a hot meal over her head as she others wait in line to receive their food ration at a distribution point in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, August 2011. China will increasingly look to Africa over the next decade as the world's most populous nation seeks to ensure it has sufficient food supplies, according to a study published Wednesday (AFP)
The Chongqing-based group plans to invest 5.8 billion yuan ($914 million) to plant 600,000 tons of soybeans on 200,000 hectares in Brazil annually.
Some 78 percent agreed with the proposition that “not allowing foreigners buying the Crafar farms is a principled defence of New Zealand rights and sovereignty”, while 15 percent said it was “bowing to xenophobic and populist hysteria.”
Investir tant de fonds publics aboutissant à la création de 20 emplois risquant de jeter des dizaines de milliers d’Africains dans la famine par accaparement des terres est inacceptable.
