In this presentation Ward Anseeuw describes the increasing financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impact this has on land and food availability.
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
- West Australian
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07 May 2015
Cet atelier vise à réfléchir sur la manière de livrer l’information aux populations et à évaluer la responsabilité des uns et des autres sur les problèmes fonciers.
- Sud Quotidien
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07 May 2015
El fracaso de la política de restitución de tierras no solo enterraría este derecho de las víctimas sino que legitimaría las prácticas de despojo por parte de grandes actores económicos.
SigmaBleyzer's company AgroGeneration manages fields of wheat, sunflowers and other crops in five Ukrainian regions and is looking for deals to expand farm operations in the country
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived.
A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
"Les actions nécessaires seront introduites contre les propagateurs de ce mensonge," annonce le groupe Socfin.
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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05 May 2015
Il land grabbing si presenta insomma come un’ultima versione del neocolonialismo, che priva della loro terra i pastori e i piccoli coltivatori locali, l’accaparramento dell’acqua e la perdita della biodiversità. La ricerca si è concentrata sull’Etiopia, l’Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi: la fotografia è accompagnata da ampi testi esplicativi
- Corriere della Sera
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05 May 2015
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.
My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.
- Oakland Institue
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05 May 2015
¿Qué es tal invasión? ¿Qué cubre tantas y tantas hectáreas de esta tierra de enorme fertilidad? Ustedes mismos reconocerán por su morfología que son palmeras, pues sí, este bosque sin fin es un bosque de palma africana que las empresas multinacionales han convertido en una epidemia planetaria para su beneficio.
One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.
- Australian Financial Review
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04 May 2015
Because of plantations or infrastructure projects, people are displaced from the land that their livelihood depends on. To improve matters, the UN voluntary guidelines on the tenure of land, forests and water must be implemented.
Comboniano, encarregado do sector “Justiça e Paz”, o P. Arlindo Pinto escreveu uma carta aberta ao Governo de Moçambique, pedindo a revisão do ProSAVANA que visa o desenvolvimento agráriono país, mas que corre o risco de aumentar a pobreza.
- Rádio Vaticano
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02 May 2015