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Acaparamiento de tierras en Uruguay
- Kaos en la Red
- 20 February 2015
27 conglomerados empresariales poseen 1.641.000 hectáreas. Trasnacionales con al menos 10% de la tierra productiva en Uruguay.
Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia
- TuK Indonesia
- 20 February 2015
25 large tycoon business groups control 3.1 million hectares of the total planted oil palm plantation in Indonesia. And another 2 million hectares of undeveloped land banks under control.
SENHUILE , le calvaire , l'injustice et la ségrégation vecu par les employés Sénégalais
- Youtube
- 19 February 2015
Le nouveau Directeur de Senhuile sa, Massimo Castellucci pense qu'un travailleur Sénégalais ne mérite pas un salaire de plus de 150 000 fcfa
Battle to feed the world pits small farmers against big agriculture
- Guardian
- 19 February 2015
Large-scale agricultural production will benefit private-sector firms rather than poor people, Grain says, noting that financial companies and sovereign wealth funds are responsible for about a third of the deals.
Despite hunger, Mozambique leases huge land holdings to foreigners
- Reuters
- 19 February 2015
Mozambique, a country wracked by hunger, has signed away land concessions three times larger than Greater London to outside investors in the past decade, displacing thousands of farmers in the process.
Shanghai Pengxin aims to double its NZ farm assets
- BusinessDesk
- 19 February 2015
The New Zealand farm group arm of the Shanghai Pengxin Group owned by Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhoabai says it plans to double its $500 million of local assets within the next five years.
UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed
- The Ecologist
- 19 February 2015
UN Agency IFAD is robbing poor farmers and farming communities of their land and livelihoods, leaving them destitute, and handing over their wealth for plunder by foreign corporations and profiteering financiers.
Land disputes triple in Cambodia in 2014: rights group
- World Bulletin
- 19 February 2015
Local NGO Licadho says registered more than 10,625 families newly affected by land conflicts.
Empresários portugueses acusados de usurparem terras em Moçambique
- SAPO
- 19 February 2015
Os empresários Miguel Pais do Amaral, Américo Amorim e a Rio Forte são acusados por uma Organização Não Governamental espanhola e pelo sindicato de camponeses de Moçambique de usurparem terras sem indemnizarem os habitantes locais.
'Usurpadores' de terras em Moçambique
- Visao
- 19 February 2015
Empresas portuguesas são acusadas de ocupar ilegalmente propriedades agrícolas. E estilhaços do caso BES chegam a África.
Mali: Accaparements des terres à l’office du Niger : Le PDG est-il complice ?
- Mali Actu
- 19 February 2015
Il ressort de notre enquête plus d’un million de victimes de l’accaparement des terres au Mali, écrit Lassana Coulibaly.
SwissLeaks : Modibo Keïta, le nabab du riz au Mali
- Le Monde
- 19 February 2015
Le nom de Modibo Keïta, qui contrôle 20 000 ha dans l'Office du Niger, figure dans les documents SwissLeaks auxquels a eu accès Le Monde Afrique, provenant de HSBC Private Bank à Genève