Dubai needs food from Africa
    Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.
    • Halal Focus
    • 15 April 2013
    Who owns the land? Cameroon's large-scale land-grabs
    As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.
    • Think Africa Press
    • 15 April 2013
    La ruée vers l'or vert en question
    Depuis le début des années 2000, un nouveau phénomène mobilise l’attention des chercheurs et des ONG : les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle, par des multinationales, des fonds de pension, des banques ou des Etats. Clara Jamart, Stefano Liberti et Sébastien Abis sur RFI.
    • RFI
    • 15 April 2013
    40% des terres arables attribuées à des privés, selon un universitaire
    "Si la tendance continue en dix ans aucune terre arable ne sera disponible au Sénégal", selon Alpha Ba, membre du Groupe d’études et de recherches genre et sociétés de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis.
    • APS
    • 15 April 2013
    "Sons and Daughters of the Earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala
    Indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.
    • FoodFirst/TNI
    • 15 April 2013
    The Saudi-Sudanese Investment Forum - Is it a rehearsal for other Arab investments?
    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
    • Sudan Vision
    • 14 April 2013
    'Quick-fix' development gives away more than it gets back
    The "land grabbing" in Africa and elsewhere often triggers conflict, an underreported financial risk, says Samuel Nguiffo
    • Al Jazeera
    • 14 April 2013
    Terra em transe: capital estrangeiro avança sobre áreas agrícolas
    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.
    • Portal Vermelho
    • 14 April 2013
    Key discusses farmland issue in China
    Prime Minister John Key has told Chinese officials that foreign ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in New Zealand.
    • NZ City
    • 14 April 2013
    Honduras: SABMiller’s sugar company Azunosa landgrab with alleged plans to kill
    Soldiers and police illegally evict farmers who have been recovering lands illegally occupied by a subsidiary of SABMiller.
    • Art Action Union
    • 12 April 2013
    Kernel expands farmland empire in $186m deal
    The acquisition takes to 422,000 hectares the area which Kernel controls in the Ukraine – an area bigger than Luxembourg or most UK counties.
    • Agrimoney
    • 11 April 2013
    Lo dicen
    El Banco Mundial propone cambios en la propiedad de la tierra y aumentar la productividad de los predios.
    • La Diaria
    • 11 April 2013
    Movimentos sociais lutam contra apropriação internacional de terras e águas
    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.
    • I Bahia
    • 11 April 2013
    Prosavana - Críticas e esclarecimentos
    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.
    • ProSavana - críticas e esclarecimentos
    • 11 April 2013
    Ugandan court orders compensation for Kaweri Coffee Plantation evictees of
    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.
    • FIAN
    • 11 April 2013
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