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Reino de Mapitoba
- Estadao
- 14 May 2013
O reino das fazendas corporativas está sendo conhecido por Mapitoba, acrônimo extraído das duas primeiras letras de Maranhão, Piauí, Tocantins e Bahia.
Declaração de Guiúa-Inhambane
- UNAC
- 14 May 2013
Camponeses e camponesas da UNAC pretendemos reforçar a atenção a dar em relação ao Prosavana e definição de estratégias para o seu enfrentamento, apresentando alternativas às políticas agrárias que tem vindo a ser aprovadas, com quase total ausência e exclusão de camponeses e camponesas de todo o Pais.
Prohibirán en Uruguay compra de tierras a Estados extranjeros
- Subrayado
- 13 May 2013
El Poder Ejecutivo hizo suyo un proyecto de ley elaborado por legisladores del Frente Amplio. Se busca limitar la tierra en manos de extranjeros.
Uruguay: Estado cruzará datos para saber cantidad de tierras en manos de extranjeros
- Unoticias
- 13 May 2013
El secretario de Presidencia, Homero Guerrero, informó que el gobierno cruzará información con los organismos de registros de tierras, con el fin de saber que porcentaje está en manos de uruguayos y de extranjeros.
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.