«Les conflits fonciers opposants de pauvres villageois aux puissants investisseurs font actuellement plus de 1.000 incidents signalés. Il y a en moyenne 5 litiges fonciers par jour dans le pays et 3 d’entre eux impliquent de puissants investisseurs», explique Yefred Myenzi, le directeur exécutif de Larrri en Tanzanie.
Faou Sow Ndiaye estime que ''les autorités religieuses, administratives, politiques, coutumières, les femmes et les jeunes doivent ensemble chercher des les solutions à l'accaparement des terres, pour préserver ce qui reste du capital foncier''.
"The question of land grabbing is just some illusion promoted by a group of people who don't know what's happening on the ground in respective countries in Africa," according to Mkindi
The general manager oversees the cows at a large Saudi Arabian dairy farm. Almarai Co., the biggest food producer in the Persian Gulf, processed about 235 million gallons of milk in 2012. Photographer: John Moore/AP Photo
Chiza assured Tanzanians that "Land grabbing is not our policy."
Los uruguayos ya han comprado más de 1 millón de hectáreas en el Chaco paraguayo -más que la superficie de Tacuarembó- y siguen mirando a Paraguay como un país de oportunidades y con un fuerte crecimiento en el área cárnica.
Extent of MIFEE estate (via Tabloid Jubi). PT Bio Inti Agrindo is a subsidiary of Daewoo International Corp. of South Korea.
Dulwinder Singh, headman of Manochahal, Punjab, does not recommend joining the exodus to Georgia. Photograph: Jason Burke for the Guardian
Papyrus reed boats cross the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, where some people claim their water is being handed over to Saudi business interests. Photograph by Peter Guttman, Corbis
The TransFarm Africa Transformation Fund will be targetting the Beira, Central and Nacala Corridors of Tanzania and Mozambique for the development of commerical farming.
Nasako Besingi: "Le Cameroun reste encore à élaborer une stratégie nationale d'utilisation des terres qui, en principe, devrait évaluer les besoins des communautés locales avant d'en accorder l'accès à des investisseurs étrangers."
George Soros owns thousands of acres of Uruguay farmland including this farm in Durazno.
Santa Regina is a 3,618 hectare farm which was purchased by Adecoagro in 2002
“What I see is a crush of capital that wants to get in and hardly anything scalable to do it in a thoughtful way,” says David E Miller, CEO of Iroquois Valley Farms
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