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Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°81
- Le Hub Rural
- 31 July 2012
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.
Commodity niches lure as markets converge
- Reuters
- 31 July 2012
Investors are honing the focus of their cash on real assets including farmland, timber, mines and energy projects, which are less correlated to financial markets.
Mozambique's agricultural fortunes rest on a choice between Obama and Annan
- The Guardian
- 31 July 2012
The Obama model's first project in Mozambique will be to support Cargill, the giant grain trader and largest private company in the world, to take 40,000 hectares of farmland.
Communal land associations: A perfect solution to land grabbing
- NAPE
- 30 July 2012
With communal land associations communities will be having one voice and if anybody, be it government or investor, is interested in their land, that person is made aware of that the group is organized and therefore not easy to simply deploy graders to start tiling or clearing the land.
Up for grabs
- Greenpeace
- 30 July 2012
A massive land grab has occurred in Papua New Guinea under the auspices of the Special Agricultural and Business Leases scheme, and the impact on communities across the country has been devastating. Greenpeace has produced a new report that details the extent of the damage.
Foreign fingers in the pie
- ABC
- 30 July 2012
There's growing interest in who invests in Australian companies and who buys Australian land, with more discussion around the topic of global food security.
Moderne Landräuber reißen fruchtbares Land an sich
- FOCUS
- 30 July 2012
Mit perfiden Methoden eignen sich Einzelpersonen oder Unternehmen Land an. Betroffen ist inzwischen eine Fläche halb so groß wie Westeuropa. Die Investoren tun dabei so, als handelten sie aus hehren Motiven. Auch Deutsche sind beteiligt.
Extranjerización del territorio paraguayo
- El rincón de Anahí
- 27 July 2012
Por lo menos 7.889.128 hectáreas de nuestro país están en manos extranjeras. Es el 19.4% del territorio nacional y nadie parece sorprenderse ni preocuparse.
Mali: Le combat n’est pas fini même si des batailles sont gagnées
- CMCAT
- 27 July 2012
Deux investisseurs visés dans des procédures juridiques, la société SOSUMAR et le négociant en céréales des sociétés 3M, Modibo Keita, ont révisé leur position.
Uruguay: Es ahora
- La Diaria
- 26 July 2012
FA analiza dos proyectos para frenar extranjerización de la tierra; Comisión Nacional de Fomento Rural considera que “llegó el momento” de hacerlo.
Interview with Ahmad bin Awang Ali of the Borneo Indigenous Peasant Movement
- GRAIN
- 26 July 2012
Indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia are facing an escalation of land grabbing in their territories by national palm oil companies, backed by foreign corporations.
'Land grabs' – the new scramble for Africa
- CNN
- 26 July 2012
Villagers in Mozambique are caught between their government's need to promote agricultural development through foreign investment and to protect the rights of the citizens who depend on that land.
Declaración de Bukit Tinggi sobre la Reforma Agraria en el siglo XXI
- Vía Campesina
- 25 July 2012
Como ya expresamos en el Llamamiento de Dakar y en la Declaración de Nyeleni en contra del Acaparamiento de Tierras, éste es un fenómeno global promovido por las élites y los inversores locales, nacionales y transnacionales, y los gobiernos con el objetivo de controlar los recursos más preciados del planeta.
China firm eyes controversial 58-sq-mile Australia farm project
- Reuters
- 25 July 2012
A Chinese property conglomerate is bidding for a 15,000 hectare farming project in the Australian outback as Canberra looks to open the remote north for farming to tap booming demand for food from Asia, especially China.
Foreign investment in US land on the rise
- USA Today
- 25 July 2012
Investors from Canada and the Netherlands have almost half of all foreign forest and farmland holdings in the USA. The Canadian holdings reflect investment by timber companies, while the Dutch holdings reflect pension fund investments.