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Sénégal - Affrontement meurtrier autour de terres vendues à des étrangers
- Slate Afrique
- 28 October 2011
Fanaye Diéry, commune rurale située dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, a été le théâtre d’affrontements meurtriers le 26 octobre.
International Peasant Conference : Stop the land grab
- CNOP/Via Campesina
- 28 October 2011
The National Coordination of Farming Organizations in Mali and the Via Campesina invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against global land grabs.
Africa Rising: Economic progress vs. cultural preservation in Ethiopia
- CSM
- 27 October 2011
Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.
China's farming history misapplied in Africa
- Al Jazeera
- 27 October 2011
Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.
Death toll in Senegal clash over biofuels land rises to two
- AFP
- 26 October 2011
A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries.
Laos, China sign MOU to develop organic farms
- Vientiane Times
- 26 October 2011
Lao and Chinese businesses this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for investment in organic farming in Laos, at a cost of about US$5 million.
Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
- Al Jazeera
- 25 October 2011
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
Civil society groups call for action to curb land grabbing
- IPS
- 25 October 2011
NGOs tried to get a pronouncement in the Changwon Declaration against the continued grabbing of land throughout Africa and Asia.
Money for Russia’s agriculture
- RT
- 25 October 2011
Russia’s VTB Capital plans $1bn agriculture fund which will begin by buying assets in Russia and Kazakhstan – from land to processing companies.
Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
- BBC
- 24 October 2011
BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.
Vietnamese to produce rice & rubber in Sierra Leone
- Awoko
- 24 October 2011
Three weeks ago, a team of Vietnamese investors and their technical advisers visited Sierra Leone to conduct feasibility studies with the aim of entering the agribusiness sector in the country.
Agriterra eyes extra farmland as losses narrow
- Agrimoney
- 24 October 2011
Agriterra revealed plans for further land expansion even after raising its cattle operations to about 16,700 hectares and entering the cocoa market through the acquisition of a Sierra Leone trader.