• Policy brief: The role of European development finance institutions in land grabs
    • Aprodev
    • 13 May 2013

    Aprodev commissioned research to investigate the involvement of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in land grabs. The evidence shows that European DFIs are indeed involved in some land grabs, and there are real risks of being complicit in others in the future.

  • Landroof Maleisië gesponsord door Nederlandse banken en pensioenfondsen
    • Duurzaamnieuws
    • 13 May 2013

    Het Maleisische palmoliebedrijf Wilmar is wereldwijd op grote schaal betrokken bij landroof, milieuovertredingen en schending van nationale wetten bij palmolieprojecten.

  • Madagascar, chance de l’Indianocéanie
    • Le Quotidien
    • 13 May 2013

    La COI est bien déterminée à tout faire pour que ce projet passe de la phase de préparation à celle d’activation.

  • Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs
    • The Guardian
    • 13 May 2013

    Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report.

  • Rubber barons - a Global Witness report
    • Global Witness
    • 12 May 2013

    Rubber Barons shows how vast amounts of land have been acquired for rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos by two of Vietnam's biggest largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG).

  • Tunisie: Pour un mécanisme de partenariat investisseurs-conglomérats agricoles de l'OTD
    • Webmanagercentre
    • 11 May 2013

    "La cession des terres agricoles tunisiennes aux étrangers représente un danger pour la souveraineté de l'Etat et une ingérence dans ses affaires," estime Mohamed Mabrouk de l'Institut tunisien des études stratégiques

  • Uruguay: Marcha en defensa del agua y la tierra contra los mega proyectos
    • Unoticias
    • 10 May 2013

    Los manifestantes exigen que se pare "la entrega de la tierra y los bienes naturales del país a la inversión extranjera que saquea nuestras riquezas, al igual que lo hacen en el resto de nuestro continente y del mundo".

  • The global land grab: The new enclosures
    • Wealth of the Commons
    • 09 May 2013

    Everywhere in Africa the story is more or less the same: communal rights are being grossly interfered with, farming systems upturned, livelihoods decimated, and water use and environments changed in ways which are dubiously sustainable.

  • Liberia's next big war
    • FrontPageAfrica
    • 09 May 2013

    Liberia's silent land war has now become a war of words and placards with tension brewing daily either between individuals and families or companies and tribes or clans.

  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
    • 09 May 2013

    The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people. Most people think these demographic projections, like most of those made over the last half-century, will in fact materialize. But this is unlikely, given the difficulties in expanding the food supply, such as those posed by spreading water shortages and global warming. We are fast outgrowing the earth’s capacity to sustain our increasing numbers.

  • Ethnic activists warn of surge in land grabs after ceasefires
    • Irrawaddy
    • 09 May 2013

    About 40 ethnic activist groups are calling on the government, ethnic militias and the international community to address a surge in land-grabbing, as companies move into Burma’s ethnic regions following recent ceasefire agreements.

  • La concepción instrumental de la política de tierras en Colombia
    • Prensa Rural
    • 09 May 2013

    La pretensión oficial por resolver la titularidad de la tierra se inscribe en el cumplimiento de una exigencia del capital para establecerse en el territorio colombiano. Este reposicionamiento del capital sobre el territorio inaugurará un nuevo ciclo de despojo, pero esta vez se tratará de una desposesión legal.

  • BMI: Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report (Apr-13)
    • Zawya
    • 07 May 2013

    A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund - agreed to pay US $92mn to acquire Continental Farmers Group located in northern Poland and western Ukraine

  • Maharashtra’s sugar cooperatives seek to expand in Africa
    • Live Mint
    • 07 May 2013

    Governments in African countries lease out land at low rates, which makes it attractive to investors

  • Africa is 'the Brazil of the 1970s' in agriculture
    • Agrimoney
    • 07 May 2013

    Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.

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