In the Philippines, who is monitoring & regulating these deals? Are they violating people’s rights enshrined in our laws? Will communities succumb to vague promises of jobs & infrastructures? Will the deals really trigger economic growth?
The Confederation of Indian Industry disagrees with critics of India's foreign landgrabbing for agriculural production
Thai exporters are concerned about the "land-grabbing colonialism" strategy being used by developed nations such as South Korea to reap benefits from agricultural goods grown in a second country and exported to other nations.
Professeur de géographie politique et du développement à l’université Bordeaux-III et spécialiste des questions foncières en Afrique, Christian Bouquet nous livre sa réflexion sur l’évolution de ce phénomène inquiétant.
Visit to a 2000 hectare farm in Uruguay on July 4, 2009 with Vinod Surana, CEO of Surana and Surana and leader of CII delegation from India visiting Argentina and Uruguay on June 29 - July 3, 2009
Agricultural experts, civil society activists, peasants and politicians condemn the PPP-led coalition government which has given nod to lease out 6m acres of Pakistani land to Gulf-based multinationals.
La récente préoccupation du G8 sur la nécessité d'observer des règles sur les achats de terres en Afrique, est à saluer. Mais force est de constater que cela a été dit et rappelé plusieurs fois par des experts africains et du Nord, ecrit le Directeur général de l'ADRAO
Questions persist as to whether the Government ought to tighten its control over the ownership of agricultural land, particularly by non-Kenyans.
There may emerge a situation when Ukrainians will be starving in spite of having the most fertile black earth.
Corporate pitch from Uruguay-based private equity firm Allied Venture for Indian investors to go into outsourced agriculture in Latin America
Allied Venture promo video for Indian investors
A multilateral framework would not only improve the protection of the human rights of the local population concerned; it could also avoid beggar-thy-neighbour policies, with countries competing against each other for foreign direct investment and thus lowering the requirements imposed on foreign investors.
A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in Mindoro to grow corn
As for the Chinese delegation and those of them who had the chance to state their minds one did not get the impression at all as regards purchase of land
« Il n’appartient pas au G8 d’élaborer des programmes et stratégies de développement pour l’Afrique. »
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