• Acaparamiento de agua: hidrocolonialismo y suicidio socio-ambiental
    • 08 Mar 2013

    La matriz de uso del agua a nivel mundial identifica a la agricultura como el mayor consumidor de este recurso, aproximadamente el 70% del agua que se extrae es empleada en los sistemas agropecuarios.

  • Investors farm English land for gains as BlackRock sells
    • Bloomberg
    • 08 Mar 2013

    Rural land produced some of the best investment returns in Europe since the financial crisis began five years ago, appreciating by 51 percent across England

  • Land grabbing as big business in Myanmar
    • Asia Times
    • 08 Mar 2013

    State agencies and private companies are seeking to acquire increasingly larger tracts of farmland in the hopes of enticing foreign partners.

  • Uruguay: ICIR La batalla por la renta
    • Rebelion
    • 08 Mar 2013

    El reciente debate sucitado a raíz de la declaración de inconstitucionalidad de los artículos 1º y 2º del Impuesto a la Concentración de Inmuebles Rurales (ICIR, Ley 18.876) votada el 28/12/2011 por la bancada oficialista y con férrea oposición de los partidos de derecha y las patronales rurales, ha evidenciado las posiciones del espectro político y social de nuestro país relativas al modelo económico que defienden. No analizaremos aquí las razones jurídicas de la Suprema Corte de Justicia, sino las características del impuesto, sus efectos y, lo más interesante de todo, las posibles razones que explican los diferentes posicionamientos públicos.

  • Ethiopia: Army attack kills and displaces farmers
    • ASO
    • 08 Mar 2013

    The army's attack on indigenous communities is suspected to be directly related to a land grab in the area by the Turkish company Tekron Group.

  • Mali : quels modèles économiques pour les projets d'investissement agricole ?
    • Alimenterre
    • 08 Mar 2013

    Avec ses 100 000 ha de terres irriguées, l’Office du Niger (ON) compte parmi les plus grands aménagements hydro-agricoles du continent africain et contribue fortement à la sécurité alimentaire du Mali.

  • Yaoundé acceuille une réunion d’experts sur la saisie de terres en Afrique
    • VoA
    • 07 Mar 2013

    A l’occasion de ce "Dialogue régional de Yaoundé", les experts ont fait valoir que les gouvernements africains se dessaisissent de vastes étendues de terres, tout en tardant à reconnaître les droits fonciers des populations locales et des communautés autochtones.

  • Canadians look south to invest in agriculture
    • NBR
    • 07 Mar 2013

    Mark Wiseman, chief executive of the $A170 billion fund, will visit Australia this month amid the group’s expanding portfolio of interests across the Tasman.

  • Land grabs & the Canadian connection
    • Watershed Sentinel
    • 07 Mar 2013

    Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.

  • Hidden impacts: How Europe's resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts
    • FOE
    • 07 Mar 2013

    A new report from Friends of the Earth finds that the EU is importing the equivalent of 1,212,050 square kilometres to meet its demand for food, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss and land-grabbing.

  • Pension funds join forces to invest in farmland
    • Reuters
    • 07 Mar 2013

    Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.

  • New reports: African governments giving land away quickly, recognizing land rights slowly
    • RRI
    • 07 Mar 2013

    Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed

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