Gregory Myers, USAID, speaking at the global land grabbing conference in Sussex, UK, in April 2011
Sweet potato is Vietnam's second most important farm produce, after rice.
NZIER said a more important question was why less focus was given to the sale of New Zealand companies to foreigners rather than land
COFCO, the biggest ketchup producer in China, wants to outsource tomato production to Australia? (Image: Beijing Review)
China’s Cofco Ltd. last week won control of Australia's Tully Sugar Ltd
« Ce phénomène doit être réguler avant qu’il ne devienne massif »
Hisham El-Khazindar, co-founder of Citadel Capital
Gathuru Mburu (ABN), Jennifer Koinante (IPACC), Bern Guri (COMPAS), Anne Maina (ABN), Million Belay (MELCA), Simom Mwamba (ESAFF) and Mariam Mayet (ACB)
"For as long as land grabbing pushed by neoliberal policies continues to threaten food sovereignty, women all over the world through the International Women's Alliance will continue to strengthen their ranks and struggle to protect people's rigjts to land and livelihood," Maza said.
In a lively protest and program in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) offices, the internationalists express strong solidarity with Filipino farmers and the rest of the Filipino people in pressing for immediate reforms (Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com)
September 2010: AgriNature Chairman and CEO Antonio Tiu and China’s Heiliongjiang Beidahuang Seed Group Co. LTD. announced a new joint venture— Beidahuang (Philippines) Agro Industrial Development Corporation. The venture promises to boost ties between China and the Philippines as well as aiming to produce and distribute high-yielding hybrid rice seedlings to local farmers, raising their productivity and profitability of local farms.
Fuentes: Banco de Pagos Internacionales (I) Organización para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, Naciones Unidas (R)
FUENTE: Pensions & Investments, 6 de septiembre de 2010, P&I/Towers Watson World 300
Au Mali, des paysans réclament leurs terres cédées à Kadhafi (Terraeco.net)
Members of MST (Landless Rural Workers' Movement, Brazil) show their support at the Taiwan farmers and Rural Front press conference in Taipei, 6 July 2011 (Photo: TRF)
The farmers self-help groups and Taiwan Rural Front urge the Taiwanese government to stop land grabbing, 6 July 2011. (Photo: TRF)
The farmers self-help groups and Taiwan Rural Front urge the Taiwanese government to stop land grabbing, 6 July 2011. (Photo: TRF)