With communal land associations communities will be having one voice and if anybody, be it government or investor, is interested in their land, that person is made aware of that the group is organized and therefore not easy to simply deploy graders to start tiling or clearing the land.
A massive land grab has occurred in Papua New Guinea under the auspices of the Special Agricultural and Business Leases scheme, and the impact on communities across the country has been devastating. Greenpeace has produced a new report that details the extent of the damage.
There's growing interest in who invests in Australian companies and who buys Australian land, with more discussion around the topic of global food security.
Mit perfiden Methoden eignen sich Einzelpersonen oder Unternehmen Land an. Betroffen ist inzwischen eine Fläche halb so groß wie Westeuropa. Die Investoren tun dabei so, als handelten sie aus hehren Motiven. Auch Deutsche sind beteiligt.
Por lo menos 7.889.128 hectáreas de nuestro país están en manos extranjeras. Es el 19.4% del territorio nacional y nadie parece sorprenderse ni preocuparse.
Deux investisseurs visés dans des procédures juridiques, la société SOSUMAR et le négociant en céréales des sociétés 3M, Modibo Keita, ont révisé leur position.
FA analiza dos proyectos para frenar extranjerización de la tierra; Comisión Nacional de Fomento Rural considera que “llegó el momento” de hacerlo.
Indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia are facing an escalation of land grabbing in their territories by national palm oil companies, backed by foreign corporations.
Villagers in Mozambique are caught between their government's need to promote agricultural development through foreign investment and to protect the rights of the citizens who depend on that land.
Como ya expresamos en el Llamamiento de Dakar y en la Declaración de Nyeleni en contra del Acaparamiento de Tierras, éste es un fenómeno global promovido por las élites y los inversores locales, nacionales y transnacionales, y los gobiernos con el objetivo de controlar los recursos más preciados del planeta.
A Chinese property conglomerate is bidding for a 15,000 hectare farming project in the Australian outback as Canberra looks to open the remote north for farming to tap booming demand for food from Asia, especially China.
Investors from Canada and the Netherlands have almost half of all foreign forest and farmland holdings in the USA. The Canadian holdings reflect investment by timber companies, while the Dutch holdings reflect pension fund investments.