• The Saudi-Sudanese Investment Forum - Is it a rehearsal for other Arab investments?
    • Sudan Vision
    • 14 April 2013

    President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases

  • 'Quick-fix' development gives away more than it gets back
    • Al Jazeera
    • 14 April 2013

    The "land grabbing" in Africa and elsewhere often triggers conflict, an underreported financial risk, says Samuel Nguiffo

  • Terra em transe: capital estrangeiro avança sobre áreas agrícolas
    • Portal Vermelho
    • 14 April 2013

    Se você quiser encontrar um brasileiro com motivos para estar feliz com a última década, e otimista quanto ao futuro, procure entre os proprietários de terras. Entre 2003 e 2012, o preço médio do hectare no Brasil pulou de R$ 2.280 para R$ 7.470. Foi um crescimento de 227%, o dobro da inflação registrada no mesmo período.

  • Key discusses farmland issue in China
    • NZ City
    • 14 April 2013

    Prime Minister John Key has told Chinese officials that foreign ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in New Zealand.

  • Honduras: SABMiller’s sugar company Azunosa landgrab with alleged plans to kill
    • Art Action Union
    • 12 April 2013

    Soldiers and police illegally evict farmers who have been recovering lands illegally occupied by a subsidiary of SABMiller.

  • Kernel expands farmland empire in $186m deal
    • Agrimoney
    • 11 April 2013

    The acquisition takes to 422,000 hectares the area which Kernel controls in the Ukraine – an area bigger than Luxembourg or most UK counties.

  • Lo dicen
    • La Diaria
    • 11 April 2013

    El Banco Mundial propone cambios en la propiedad de la tierra y aumentar la productividad de los predios.

  • Movimentos sociais lutam contra apropriação internacional de terras e águas
    • I Bahia
    • 11 April 2013

    Segundo estimativas da organização Oxfam, que lançou um relatório em 2011 e mantém uma campanha dedicada a tratar publicamente do tema, grandes negócios de comércio de terras realizados desde 2000 envolveram 227 milhões de hectares, mais que o dobro de toda a área.

  • Prosavana - Críticas e esclarecimentos
    • ProSavana - críticas e esclarecimentos
    • 11 April 2013

    Desde seu lançamento, o ProSavana é acusado de tentar destruir a agricultura moçambicana por meio de uma “invasão de megaprodutores brasileiros”, que “se utilizariam de financiamento japonês”, em uma “repetição do processo que destruiu o Cerrado brasileiro”. A lista de acusações é infindável, e, obviamente, há equívocos que devem ser esclarecidos.

  • Ugandan court orders compensation for Kaweri Coffee Plantation evictees of
    • FIAN
    • 11 April 2013

    The High Court in Kampala ordered that approximately eleven million euros of compensation be paid to the 2,041 people evicted from their land 13 years ago.

  • Protecting land rights with Wikipedia-style maps
    • Trustlaw
    • 11 April 2013

    Building land inventories, Wikipedia-style, would be a cheap and easy way for poor, rural communities to compile a record of property rights and land usage patterns and could reduce corruption and help lessen illegal land grabs.

  • Accaparement des terres, les experts africains en quête de solutions
    • Cameroon-Tribune
    • 11 April 2013

    Un climat propice à la culture de nombreux produits de rente et la faible densité des populations dans certaines régions au Cameroun. Ce sont là les principaux facteurs qui justifient la ruée des investisseurs internationaux sur les terres camerounaises comme celles de nombreux pays victimes du phénomène d’accaparement de la terre.

  • Österreich soll Landraub in Sierra Leone finanzieren
    • Heute
    • 11 April 2013

    Nationale und internationale Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) erheben schwere Vorwürfe gegen Österreich. Indirekt werde von der Österreichischen Entwicklungsbank (OeEB), ein Unternehmen der Republik Österreich, ein Projekt finanziert, das Landraub (Landgrabbing) in Sierra Leone betreibe.

  • World Bank: Access to land is critical for the poor
    • This Day
    • 11 April 2013

    "The World Bank has launched a consultative process with all stakeholders to review and update our environmental and social safeguards policies, which will be informed by the VGs. Land acquisition is a part of this conversation."

  • Six porcs sur dix sont élevés en Chine
    • Ouest France
    • 11 April 2013

    Certaines sociétés chinoises achètent ou louent des terres en Afrique et même en Europe. Pour sécuriser ses approvisionnements, la Chine a aussi recours à la contractualisation. Quatre millions de tonnes de maïs ont ainsi été réservés sur deux ans avec l’Ukraine.

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