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The gritty side of farmland investing
- Wall Street Journal
- 03 Mar 2014
Worldwide, farmland is a hot investment area, but it’s also controversial, opaque, illiquid and sometimes relies on local operation that presents a risk of fraud.
Scramble for Africa threatens to leave continent starving
- Africa Review
- 01 Mar 2014
In five short years, rich countries have acquired about 80 million hectares of land in Africa and other developing countries in what is now a worrying trend.
ナンプーラ宣言 UNAC（全国農民連合）2014年度年次総会
- UNAC
- 01 Mar 2014
モザンビーク全国農民連合（UNAC）は、25年以上にもわたり、モザンビークの農民男女の社会的、経済的、文化的諸権利と食料主権を守るために闘ってきたモザンビークの小農運動であり、10万を超えるメンバーを代表する。
Ukraine unrest may boost farming, says Trigon Agri
- Agrimoney
- 28 February 2014
Danish-based Trigon Agri downplayed the risk to agriculture from Ukraine's crisis, saying it would probably herald a "better business environment".
Campesinos y pastores senegaleses exigen a la sombría multinacional Senhuile SA que se salga de sus tierras
- Colectivo de Ndiaël et al.
- 28 February 2014
Un grupo de campesinos y pastores del noroeste de Senegal está viajando por Europa para exigir que se cancele un negocio con tierras que amenaza la vida y los modos de subsistencia de unas 9 mil personas. Por favor ¡apoye su acción ahora!
L’agrobusiness attaque le Sénégal
- Libération
- 27 February 2014
Monoculture industrielle contre système pastoral : Senhuile SA a bien multiplié les promesses (hôpitaux, écoles, bourses). Une poignée d’emplois est venue. «Des jobs mal payés, jetables, qui consistent surtout à faire de la surveillance des champs. Une misère», déplore Ardo Sow.
Des paysans et éleveurs sénégalais exigent que la multinationale Senhuile SA quitte leurs terres
- Collectif de Ndiaël et al.
- 27 February 2014
Des paysans et des éleveurs du Sénégal exigent la fin d’une transaction foncière qui menace les vies de 9000 personnes. Soutenez leur action !
Colombia: The deadly fight for land
- Al Jazeera
- 27 February 2014
Al Jazeera's Fault Lines investigates the threats facing Colombian farmers struggling to return to their land.
Evicted families in Guatemala still face an uncertain future
- Trócaire
- 27 February 2014
Update on the Rio Frio community who were forcibly evicted off their land in the Polochic Valley to make way for a sugarcane plantation.
The global land grab: Beyond the hype
- Zed Books
- 27 February 2014
"A comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing countries of the South today."
Tanzania: Partners keen to empower millions of farmers
- Tanzania Daily News
- 27 February 2014
Growers associations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen farmers' participation in the design and implementation of the Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
La guerra del arroz en Guinea Bissau
- ABC
- 27 February 2014
La llegada de una empresa española no trae el progreso prometido y abre un conflicto con ciudadanos que se han visto empobrecidos y desplazados de sus tierras.