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Catholic bishops unhappy over high rate of land grabbing
- Pulse
- 17 October 2016
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference laments the rate at which multinational companies indiscriminately acquire lands leading to displacement of occupants.
'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?
- IIED
- 17 October 2016
Changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations
The worldwide race to own fertile land
- SWI
- 15 October 2016
Three-quarters of the 20 states most affected by land grabbing are in Africa and Asia and among the poorest in the world, and in these countries the rights of the population have scant protection.
That boom you hear is Ukraine’s agriculture
- Bloomberg
- 15 October 2016
Companies are betting that global appetites will increasingly rely on Black Sea soil even as obstacles to growth remain.
Agroecology cools the planet - so why are Governments backing agribusiness?
- Ecologist
- 14 October 2016
Investing in agroecology requires a drastically different model than the agribusiness-led version many Governments are currently pursuing
Landmatrix II - 26,7 millions d'hectares de terres entre les mains d'investisseurs
- CIRAD
- 11 October 2016
Depuis l'année 2000 et à l'échelle de la planète 26,7 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles sont passées dans les mains d'investisseurs étrangers.
Brazilians flee drought-ravaged land once touted as frontier
- Bloomberg
- 11 October 2016
Weather challenges in the region, called Matopiba after the first two letters of Maranhao, Tocantins, Piaui and Bahia states, shouldn’t have flabbergasted farmers and investors. What’s been surprising is the voracious appetite for planting there.
Africa remains a target as Global South ‘land rush’ moves to production
- The Conversation
- 11 October 2016
Almost ten years have after the term “land grabbing” first entered the popular imagination, large-scale land acquisitions remain shrouded in secrecy.
Analytical report of the Land Matrix II
- Land Matrix
- 11 October 2016
New report by the Land Matrix finds 26.7 million hectares of agricultural land around the world have been transferred to foreign investors since the year 2000. Report details who is buying farmland in which regions of the world and how this land is being used.
Arrests and prosecution not solutions to the problem of land in Thyolo/Mulanje (Malawi)
- change.org
- 11 October 2016
Petition calls for Malawi government to withdraw court case against the People's Land Organisation, which is claiming reparations from the tea estates in Thyolo and Mulanje for the forced labour that their fore parents were subjected to in the estates by the colonial settlers.
Illegal cocoa and palm plantations cause $111m damage in Peruvian Amazon
- IDM
- 11 October 2016
The head of Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service has revealed that deforestation by two illegal cocoa and oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon has caused US$111 million of damage.
Biggest Africa cocoa farm takes shape in central Ivory Coast
- Bloomberg
- 11 October 2016
In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shape.