Pour les défenseurs de l’environnement, la catastrophe écologique est imminente : en septembre 2009, l’Etat du Cameroun a octroyé à une firme agroalimentaire américaine, Héraklès Farms, plus de 70 000 hectares pour exploiter une plantation de palmiers à huile à proximité du Korup National Park.
Pourquoi les autorités africaines négligent-elles l’alimentation de leurs populations privilégiant les retombées financières provenant de ces locations et ventes des terres agricoles ?
A report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Research Economic and Sciences shows the amount of farmland that is either partly or wholly foreign-owned has increased by nearly 60 per cent since the early 1980s.
BBC radio investigates report by Human Rights Watch that claims Britain is indirectly funding a brutally enforced resettlement programme in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian government has denied forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people off their land to make way for foreign investors.
Over nine per cent of South Sudan's land has already been acquired for large-scale investment. Now, the government is trying to undo deals done without its, or the community's knowledge, before people rise up to free it again.
A Saudi Arabian company has leased tens of thousands of acres in western Ethiopia to grow rice for export. The Ethiopian government says it will help provide food security for its citizens, but some who live in the region, say they’re not seeing any benefits.
Interview with Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the Oakland Institute in California.
Swedish pensions money is threatening the livelihoods of small farming communities in Brazil and risk speeding up the devastation of the rainforest.
Hur används svenska pensionspengar i utvecklingsländer och vilken hänsyn tas egentligen till miljön? Reportage av Sven Börjesson.
A Madagascar, la question de la terre est très importante, sacrée même. Etat des lieux avec Rivo Andrianirina, directeur de l’Observatoire du foncier.
The International Peasant Conference taking place in Mali against land grabbing aims to build a concrete action plan to stop this phenomenon, said Thomas Ouana, from the National Union of Mozambican Peasant Farmers (UNAC) in an interview with Real World Radio.
