Farmers in Bombali and Tonkolili districts in northern Sierra Leone have said that land grabbing by multi-national companies and massive timber logging are some of the barriers to sustainable agriculture in the two districts.
Indigenous Peoples are being forced to become dependent on aid handouts having lost their land and their ability to produce their own food.
"Instead of handing over farming land to foreign companies, our government should promote policies that sustainably increase productivity and help Liberian farmers access local markets," says Friends of the Earth Liberia.
Decenas de organizaciones los señalan como responsables de la subida del precio de los alimentos y el acaparamiento de tierras para cultivos.
Manifestó que tiene claro que su trabajo tocó intereses que generaron tensiones y acosos en su contra, al denunciar penal y disciplinariamente administraciones pasadas que adjudicaron irregularmente terrenos.
The European Parliament has voted to limit the use of fuels made from food crops because of fears that biofuels can push up grain prices and displace communities, but critics say it avoids meaningful action to reduce European demand.
A move by the Indonesian government to buy one million hectares of land for beef production in Australia for its own local market has reignited the foreign ownership debate.
Indonesia has moved to solve its beef supply problems by approving a plan to buy one million hectares of Australian farmland, a plot four times the size of the Australian Capital Territory.
Indonesia's announcement yesterday that it plans to buy a million hectares of Australian agricultural land to raise beef cattle is the clearest signal yet that it wants to lower its dependence on the current live export system.
L'Europe a finalement donné un coup de frein aux agrocarburants en limitant les agrocarburants dits de "première génération", produits à base de cultures alimentaires (blé, maïs, colza, canne ou palme) à 6 % de l'énergie finale consommée dans les transports
Retired President Benjamin Mkapa attributes the increase in legal tussles over land to excessive red tape and to government's failure to formalise ownership.
Land grabbing has affected an estimated 400,000 Cambodians since 2003, helping to create a sizable under class of landless villagers with no means for self-sustenance.
In the last two decades, the best agricultural lands in Bolivia have been put into commercial production by large-scale producers closely linked to foreign investors, particularly Brazilians.
Given the determination to identify large parcels for so called nucleus farms I am worried that village tenure security is of second priority – it should be the other way around, says researcher Mikael Bergius.
Huishan Dairy has received commitments worth $220 million from three cornerstone investors -Norway's Norges Bank, Yili Group and Cofco Agricultural Industry Management - to expand its herd of cows.
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