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Developing agriculture along the pristine Okavango River must be carefully managed if water quality and quantity are to be protected. (Credit: Servaas van den Bosch/IPS)
"The Government needs to be aware of what's happening and not only make sure it's got a register of who's making the purchases, but also how much and where and what sort of land," says Charlie Armstrong, President of the New South Wales Farmers Association.
Boeren in de Cambodjaanse provincie Kampong Speu bezetten een lokale snelweg om te protesteren tegen landroof door een suikerplantagebedriijf. Foto Paul Vriez.
« Les études de cas offrent le tableau général d’une incapacité à élaborer, mettre en œuvre et appliquer les réglementations environnementales, » selon la Banque mondiale (World Bank, « Rising global interest in farmland », p. 88.)
The question is how it came to pass that more than 5 million hectares of customary land has been alienated in recent years through the grant of SABLs to landowner companies associated with some rather dubious ‘development partners’, most of whom appear to be logging companies seeking to exploit a loophole in the Forestry Act on the pretext of clearing native forests for large-scale agricultural projects that are unlikely to materialize
Ghana, which has a long history of smallholder agriculture with 80 per cent of its land holdings under customary systems of land tenure, is also experiencing a process of land concentration which has accelerated since the 1980s as a result of increased foreign investment in mining and logging, and more recently in agriculture. (Photo: Greengrants)
