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Qui rachète l’Afrique ?
- TerraEco
- 30 August 2012
La carte des terres achetées par des investisseurs étrangers depuis 2000 montre que le business de la parcelle frappe avant tout l'Afrique.
Colombia: Trascendental fallo de la Corte Constitucional
- Grupo Semillas
- 30 August 2012
Desde el Grupo Semillas reconocemos y saludamos la importancia de este fallo de la Corte, puesto que en adelante se impedirá el desarrollo de Proyectos especiales agropecuarios o forestales en baldíos y en Zonas de Desarrollo Empresarial.
Myanmar farmers lose their grip on land
- TrustLaw
- 30 August 2012
Threatening to worsen the rural crisis in Burma are two new land bills supposedly designed to alleviate it: the Farmland Law and the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law.
Farmland and Water: China invests abroad
- IISD
- 30 August 2012
Study finds reports of 86 Chinese agriculture projects covering 9 million ha of land in developing countries and confirms the existence of 55 projects covering 4.9 million ha.
¿Inversión responsable en tierras agrícolas? Los actuales esfuerzos para regular el acaparamiento de tierras agravarán las situación
- GRAIN
- 30 August 2012
El resultado neto es una autorregulación voluntaria, la cual es ineficaz y poco fiable, y no es remedio alguno contra la perversidad de estos negocios.
La France s'inquiète du phénomène d'accaparement des terres
- La Terre de Chez Nous
- 30 August 2012
Il n’y a pas qu’au Québec où l’on s’inquiète du phénomène d’accaparement des terres agricoles par des intérêts autres qu’agricoles.
Un investissement agricole responsable ? Les efforts actuels visant à réglementer les accaparements de terres ne font qu’empirer la situation
- GRAIN
- 30 August 2012
Jusqu’à maintenant, les efforts déployés pour réglementer les accaparements de terres étaient le fait des institutions internationales. Maintenant, le secteur privé s’engage à définir ses propres règles du jeu.
Stop land grabbing before it’s too late
- Daily Monitor
- 29 August 2012
For most Ugandans, the processes that government uses to acquire land for investment are not clearly understood. The land valuation processes, the purchase price and related transactions are never clear, leaving the majority of the occupants vulnerable.
GCC chambers discuss food security
- Oman News Agency
- 29 August 2012
Food investment outside the GCC states needs to be reconsidered under global variables, particularly political and economic ones that may pose a major threat to the Gulf food security, according to the Federation of GCC Chambers.
Colombia land grab by billionaires risks pledge
- Bloomberg
- 29 August 2012
New law for land restitution comes just as foreign and local billionaires such as Brazil’s Eike Batista and Colombia’s Luis Carlos Sarmiento are stepping up investments in remote parts of the nation.
Argentina: Los verdaderos dueños de la tierra
- Vanguardia
- 29 August 2012
El Registro Nacional de Tierras Rurales dio a conocer que “al menos 2,3 millones de hectáreas se encuentran en manos de extranjeros”. Los estadounidenses encabezan el ranking.
Côte d’Ivoire : Des terres agricoles convoitées
- Al Qarra
- 29 August 2012
Le groupe français Mimran projette d’exploiter 182 000 hectares pour produire 1 million de tonnes de riz.
Africa Food Security Conference
- AFSC
- 29 August 2012
1st Annual Africa Food Security Conference - AFSC 2012 is a regionally focused forum that aims to bring the interrelated parties together for discussions that will refocus food security issues in Africa in alignment with the continent’s requirement.
Landgrabbing: Eksempel Etiopia
- Nationen
- 28 August 2012
Investorer får makta over stadig mer matjord i verden.
Ethiopia: Army commits torture, rape
- HRW
- 28 August 2012
The Ethiopian military responded to an attack on a farm in Gambella region owned by Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc with arbitrary arrests, rape, and other abuses against scores of local villagers, says Human Rights Watch.