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Les ouvriers agricoles burkinabé et maliens deviendront, par millions, des Ivoiriens, et auront droit au certificat foncier au même titre que les autochtones Wê et Dan dans l’Ouest. Les chocolatiers auraient soutenu toute l’opération pour garantir la production de cacao dont la Côte d’Ivoire est le 1er producteur mondial. (Photo : Rainforest Alliance)
Land grabbing and the concentration of land ownership in Europe are leading to the concentration of control over land, water, seeds and financial resources in the hands of a few economic and political decision-makers rather than in responsible civil governance.
Le Qatar compte bien faire de sa faiblesse sur le plan agricole, un atout d'influence sur la scène mondiale. Reuters/Mohammed Dabbous
The grain silos in Fujairah, UAE are capable of storing 275,000 tonnes of wheat and rice, enough to feed the population for six months. (Photo: Invest AD)
Land grabbing of perceived “idle” and “underutilized” land must be stopped and investments, which are pro-poor, environmentally and ecologically should be promoted, says statement of the 2013 SADC People's Summit.
Emily Tjale speaking about small scale women farmers at the Land Grab Hearings pic.twitter.com/Gw2cDHXC8Q
Outre les chimpanzés du Nigeria-Cameroun, la zone qu'Herakles Farms prévoit de transformer en plantation abrite d'autres espèces de primates en danger, telles que le Drill.
Henry Lim Bon Liong of SL Agritech: "Originally, the plan was to acquire 3,000 hectares of land in Iloilo, but the group of Manny Pangilinan wants to secure more than that."
An Orang Asli man holding up a signage which says “Acknowledge the Orang Asli’s traditional territories” during the first ever pan-state protest in Seremban. The protest was staged outside the State Secretariat building after the Chief Minister made a statement saying that the Orang Asli there are nomadic and squatting on state land (16 November 2011). Photo: Sze Ning
Conflict emerges when the “vacant” and “unused” land is in reality informally occupied by smallholder subsistence farmers who must be relocated so that the land can be improved for large-scale commercial use. Often the process of relocation is violent as the farmers resist relocation and are forcibly removed by agents for the investors. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Samrang Pring
Kanayo Nwenze, the head of IFAD, insists that Africans should resist the temptation to sell land and instead take advantage of the continent's agriculture potential to grow food and high value crops that the rest of the world is ready to purchase.
Les investisseurs des Brics jouent un rôle de plus en plus crucial (sauf la Russie, qui reste à la marge de la ruée probablement en raison de la quantité de ses terres disponibles), démontrant que l'accaparement des terres se déroule non seulement à partir du noyau traditionnel de la périphérie, mais aussi de manière transversale sur la carte géopolitique du monde.
