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In Africa alone, 30 million hectares have been grabbed and in Mozambique land grabbing has reached around 10 million hectares. (Image: FOEI)
On the road to the village of Ciucurova, Romania, a farmer, Costantin Banui, stops his cart near a beekeepers’ trailer to buy a jar of honey. Romania's Minister of Agriculture says farmland in his country is being targetted by multinational corporations. (Photo: Eric Tourneret)
Un champs de soja dans la ville d'Estacion Islas, en Argentine Crédits photo : Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
“As local and national movements, we need to fight together against the global structures that threaten our communities,” said Ibrahima Coulibaly, CNOP’s president and a Via Campesina leader.
More than 250 participant from thirty different countries gather in Mali for the first International farmers’ conference to stop land grabbing.
Smallholder farmers and civil society activists from 30 countries gather in Selingue, Mali, to draft a strategy to strengthen local communities’ resistance to ‘land grabbing’
(L-R) Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Naydenov, China's Deputy Agri Minister Gao, Bulgarian PM Borisov, Chinese Ambassador Gao in Sofia on Thursday (Photo: Council of Ministers)
Ndinini Kimesera said the government was allocating vast tracts of land to commercial farmers, leaving rural people in Tanzania in the lurch.
