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La Sosucam mérite-t-elle le prix Pinocchio 2010 ?
- RFI
- 20 November 2010
L’entreprise filiale de la Somdiaa qui appartient au groupe français Vilgrain exploite des champs de canne à sucre dans la Haute Sanaga depuis 45 ans.
Reportage sur un conflit foncier au Cameroun
- RFI
- 13 November 2010
Interview avec Yves Zoa du groupe CODEN et M. Descracques de la société Somdiaa.
The right to food: Corporate, foreign gov’t land grab causing hunger in poor countries
- Democracy Now!
- 28 October 2010
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Smita Narula, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, discuss land grabbing on Democracy Now!
Down on the farm
- BBC
- 04 October 2010
The rights and wrongs of global agricultural investment examined on Business Daily of the BBC
World Bank report decries global land grab while encouraging it
- Uprising Radio
- 10 September 2010
While the Bank warns of a lack of transparency and the potential harm to poor people, it ultimately endorses the land grabs in the name of productivity and sound investment.
Dossier : L'accaparement des terres, une nouvelle forme de colonialisme
- Radio Vatican
- 27 July 2010
Les catholiques d’Action de Carême et les protestants de Pain pour le prochain unissent leurs forces pour lutter contre une nouvelle forme de colonialisme : «L’accaparement des terres»
Australia, NZ fear foreign buy-up of farmland
- Radio Australia
- 27 July 2010
New Zealand's Green Party has drafted a bill seeking to stop overseas buyers snapping up large tracts of NZ land. Australian farmers also fear they may have trouble coping with future food and water demands if foreign interests snap up too many of the nation's agricultural resources.
A wide open land
- ABC
- 25 July 2010
As the world's available farming land shrinks in the face of population growth, climate change and soil degradation, Australia's vast tracts of land are going to be increasingly important for global food security. Is the sell-off in Australia's long term interests?
Selling the farm
- ABC
- 25 July 2010
Foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets.
Food shortages puts rural Asia at risk of international exploitation
- Radio Australia
- 12 July 2010
The Asian Development Bank is warning the region's rural sector could be expoited by international investors as concerns about global food and fuel security intensify.
Grand reportage : Terres éthiopiennes à louer
- RFI
- 07 July 2010
Près de 300 investisseurs étrangers cherchent à obtenir de la terre en Ethiopie. Qui sont ces nouveaux arrivants, quels sont les bénéfices pour les paysans locaux et pour l’Etat éthiopien ?
The battle for Cambodian farm land
- ABC
- 25 May 2010
"People lose their access to land simply so that rich and powerful Cambodians and foreign investors can make profit from cash crops for export."