A l’initiative de la Commission des îles de l’océan indien, Madagascar fait l’objet d’un vaste projet de culture et d’exportation de produits agricoles qui laisse craindre des accaparements de terres.

"Se prohibirá la compra de tierras en grandes extensiones por parte de empresas transnacionales. Se podrán considerar excepciones, estableciendo límites a tales compras."

Alors que des achats de terres agricoles par des investisseurs étrangers, notamment asiatiques, ont pu émouvoir l'opinion publique ces dernières années, que représente ce phénomène en France et dans le monde ?

As land is grabbed and earmarked for development, this often has implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.

Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.

Mats Widgren provides an update on a Swedish company's land grab for sugar cane production in Tanzania.

Foreign investors in the agricultural sector are under regulated in the current framework of international investment law, voluntary guidelines and fragmented national investment legislation, and over protected in regional and bilateral investment treaties and domestic regulation.

With the largely self-evident agreement that land grabbing is wrong and all efforts should be made to prevent it, debate and effort can focus more on (i) how to prevent land grabbing, and (ii) how to enable forms of land-based investments that actually bring real benefit.

“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.

D’ici deux à trois semaines, l’entreprise italo-sénégalaise Senhuile-Senethanol va procéder aux premières récoltes dans ses champs de tournesol, annoncent ses responsables.

This roundtable on conflict sensitive water and land management assembled representatives of Swiss civil society and state agencies to debate the implications of land acquisition on their work as well as their responses.

Iván Márquez dijo que los principales puntos de desacuerdo con el Gobierno siguen siendo la política minero-energética, la ganadería extensiva y la extranjerización de la tierra.