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Mixed fortunes as ActionAid tackles land-grabbing in Tanzania
- Inidigo Trust
- 11 July 2013
Reflections on a project to map instances of rural land-grabbing in Tanzania.
Acaparamiento de tierras, otra mala noticia para el cambio climático (y para los campesinos de todo el mundo)
- Tiempo de actuar
- 11 July 2013
Las propuestas de la FAO o la OMC para enfrentarlo son como poner una tirita en una herida que sangra: no puede parar la hemorragia; transparente o no, sigue siendo acaparamiento de tierras.
In Colombia, an alleged American land grab sets off a political storm
- TIME
- 10 July 2013
Good-faith investment or flagrant land grab? That’s what Colombians are debating following revelations that Cargill acquired nearly 130,000 acres [52,610 ha] of former government land that had been donated to peasant farmers.
El mayor productor mundial de azúcar se beneficia del trabajo infantil
- Actualidad
- 10 July 2013
Tate & Lyle, el mayor fabricante mundial de azúcar, se beneficia del trabajo casi gratuito de niños camboyanos y de la expropiación de tierras a través de su proveedora local, la tailandesa KSL.
Brasil: Mudanças estruturais em pauta na mobilização de 11 de julho
- Terra Magazine
- 10 July 2013
"Recuperar a soberania nacional sobre as terras brasileiras. Propomos que o governo anule as áreas já compradas e desaproprie todas as terras controladas por empresas estrangeira".
Cambodia's sugar rush leaves farmers feeling bitter at 'land grab'
- Guardian
- 09 July 2013
Villagers from Koh Kong, Cambodia claim they are losing their livelihoods to plantations that supply Tate & Lyle
Friis Bach is up for a match against the African chiefs
- Politiken
- 09 July 2013
Africa must be developed in a rush in order to avoid a global food crisis with huge changes, including a confrontation with chiefs, the role of women and the views on collective property, says Danish Minister for Development Cooperation.
Firm pouring P85M for banana venture in Sarangani
- MindaNews
- 09 July 2013
With the huge export potentials of banana, RP Bahrain Harvest Inc. is putting up a plantation in the Philippines with an initial investment of P85 million.
Felda Global starts to acquire plantation land in Southeast Asia
- 09 July 2013
Felda Global is planning a $13.7 million purchase of rubber, oil palm land in Indonesia and says it is closing in on land deals in Myanmar, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea.
Cameroon NGOs ask U.S. government to investigate palm oil venture
- Reuters
- 09 July 2013
Environmental activists have petitioned Washington to open up an investigation into the land acquisition and forest exploitation activities of a U.S.-owned palm oil firm, Herakles Farms, in Cameroon’s southwest.
Farmers buck Belmonte’s ‘Cha-cha’ call
- Business Mirror
- 09 July 2013
Proposed constitutional amendment will allow 100-percent foreign ownership and control of land and give non-Filipino individuals and entities access to an unlimited size of land, says KMP.
Mitsui delves further into Brazil agriculture sector
- Reuters
- 09 July 2013
SLC Agricola, one of Brazil's largest soybean producers with cotton, corn and coffee operations, will have a 50.1 percent participation in the venture that will start operations in the northern frontier agricultural state of Bahia.
A foreseeable disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab
- TNI
- 09 July 2013
The EU's bioeconomy vision is fuelling land grabs in Africa.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities : De l’agriculture durable à la vente des produits finis aux supermarchés.
- Agefi
- 09 July 2013
Les activités de LDC vont de la culture (180.000 hectares de terres exploitées) à la vente de produits finis aux supermarchés.
Se revela que la CFI financió expropiación de tierras en Camboya, Laos y Honduras
- Bretton Woods Project
- 08 July 2013
Al tiempo que el Directorio Ejecutivo del Banco Mundial sigue favoreciendo los fondos de capital privado, se afirma que los intermediarios financieros de la CFI han financiado 'apropiación de tierras" en el sudeste asiático y violaciones de los derechos de la población indígena en Honduras.