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Calabar Declaration
- WRM
- 05 November 2013
Members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations and other organisations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia reaffirm opposition to land and forest grabs.
West African civil society groups strategize against land grabbing
- APA
- 05 November 2013
Members of the West African civil society and the Coalition for the Protection of African Genetic Heritage on Monday opened a regional forum on the impact of land grabbing on food security in Dakar
China looks to Ukraine as demand for food rises
- China Ukraine News Blog
- 05 November 2013
With vast tracts of rich, black earth but antiquated infrastructure, Ukraine is attracting interest from Chinese companies hoping to meet their nation’s growing demand for grains and meat.
5 reasons against Subrata Roy’s 20 thousand cows of in Ovce Pole
- Scoop
- 05 November 2013
In Dzumajlija there is not enough land, water and space to breed the cows announced by the Indian company Sahara Group
Attack on Indian-owned farm in Ethiopia turns spotlight on land policy
- The Hindu
- 05 November 2013
A violent attack on a tea plantation leased by Indian-owned Verdanta Harvest Plc, a subsidiary of the Noida-based Lucky Group, has renewed concerns over Ethiopia’s policy of leasing out large tracts of land to international investors.
La COPAGEN contre ''les acquisitions massives de terres’’ au détriment des communautés
- APS
- 04 November 2013
La Coalition pour la protection du patrimoine génétique africain a engagé le combat contre les acquisitions massives de terres en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Aiding and Abetting - UK and U.S. Complicity in Ethiopia's Mass Displacement
- Think Africa Press
- 04 November 2013
In the face of evidence, the UK and US continue to deny systematic human rights abuses are occurring in the Lower Omo as thousands are displaced for an irrigation scheme.
The politics of the forest frontier: Negotiating between conservation, development, and indigenous rights in Cross River State, Nigeria
- LUP
- 02 November 2013
Cross River State has become one of Nigeria’s premier agricultural investment destinations, crowding out smallholder production systems and creating new avenues for rent capture by elites.
Twenty-first-century land grabs: Accumulation by agricultural dispossession
- Monthly Review
- 02 November 2013
For the world’s people to have secure access to the quantity and quality of food needed for a decent life, the land grabs and the development of large, highly mechanized factory farms must stop.
Agribusiness as usual: the death of peasant farming
- The Argentina Independent
- 01 November 2013
On 10th October, Miguel Galván was stabbed to death in the doorway of his own home in Argentina. Almost one year earlier, Cristian Ferreyra had also been shot and killed in his house. Both men were murdered because they refused to give up their land to multi-national soybean plantation companies.
On Our Land: a documentary film about land grabs in Papua New Guinea
- On Our Land
- 31 October 2013
On Our Land chronicles the experiences of rural communities in Papua New Guinea who are being dispossessed of their land and natural resources through illegal logging operations and exposes the resulting destruction to local communities and the environment.
Land grabbing in Latin America: can Argentina’s prevention laws be used as an example for the rest of the country?
- BristoLatino
- 31 October 2013
Colombian and Argentine experts discuss foreign acquisition of land in their countries and whether government efforts to limit the often negative effects of land grabbing are working.