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Enough capital for African farming, but investors want viable entrepreneurs
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 30 May 2012
Trilogy Capital is involved in a large scale agriculture project in Ethiopia with US-based Morrell Agro Industries.
Cameroon: Stop oil palm plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rainforests
- Cultural Survival
- 30 May 2012
Herakles Farms plans to clear and replace 300 square miles of virgin rainforest with mono-culture trees to establish an oil palm plantation, with major impacts on 52,000 Indigenous peoples in 88 villages who depend on the forest.
Terres agricoles: Accaparement de terres agricoles
- La République
- 30 May 2012
La Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres, dans une lettre ouverte en date du 18 mai 2012, a dénoncé la dépossession de paysans maliens de leurs terres agricoles à Sanamadougou.
Politique foncière : Les ruraux disent stop à l’accaparement des terres
- Le Soleil
- 30 May 2012
Au Sénégal, où le phénomène d’accaparement des terres touche 670. 000 ha, «il est plus qu’urgent d’interpeler les nouvelles autorités pour qu’elles restituent les terres aux ayant droits», selon la coordonnatrice d’Enda-Pronat, Mariam Sow
Afrikas Erde - Im Fokus globaler Landnahme (SB)
- Schattenblick
- 30 May 2012
GIGA-Forum zu "Landraub oder Agrarinvestitionen - Großflächige Agrarprojekte in Entwicklungsländern" am 23. Mai 2012 in Hamburg
Présentation de la communauté rurale de Fanaye
- Collectif pour la Défense des Terres de Fanaye
- 30 May 2012
Présentation du Collectif pour la défense des terres de Fanaye au "Forum de réflexion et de partage sur la problématique et les enjeux d’une politique foncière, levier d’un développement rural durable", Dakar, le 29 Mai 2012
Whitestone sub-leasing 1.34 million acres in Sierra Leone
- Rural Modernity
- 30 May 2012
Since 2009, Whitestone (SL) Limited has managed to obtain 13 leasehold titles covering a staggering 1.34 million acres of land in the Bombali and Koinadugu Districts of Northern Sierra Leone for large-scale agricultural development.
Rio+20: il vertice mondiale sul clima non può trascurare la solidarietà e la lotta contro la fame. La visione di Ban Ki-Moon
- Il Fatto Alimentare
- 30 May 2012
RIO+20
Le Linee guida internazionali sui regimi fondiari come argine al land grabbing
- Cronache Internazionali
- 29 May 2012
È quindi vero che l’approvazione delle direttive costituisce solo il primo passo di un lungo percorso ad ostacoli volto ad arginare l’accaparramento delle terre, ma essa rappresenta nondimeno un punto di partenza significativo.
Sénégal: 100 000 fidèles au pèlerinage marial annuel de Popenguine
- APIC
- 29 May 2012
L'Évêque de Saint-Louis, Mgr Ernest Sambou, a critiqué l’accaparement des terres par les investisseurs internationaux, avec la complicité de certains dirigeants du continent, lors du 124e pèlerinage marial annuel de Popenguine.
BTG Pactual e FGV firmam parceria para viabilizar projeto sustentável em diversos países
- Istoe Dinheiro
- 29 May 2012
BTG Pactual Cesar Campos FGV parceria projetos Roberto Rodrigues Tropical Belt
Olam joins trading house rush into Brazilian sugar
- Agrimoney
- 29 May 2012
The Singapore-based trading house paid R$255m ($129m) to acquire the Usina Açucareira Passos (UAP) mill, in which it pledged to invest a further $111.5m in the next five years to boost both cane growing and producing capacity.
PrimeAg lands $37m farm sale
- The Land
- 29 May 2012
The agricultural arm of the $US487 billion Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association has snapped up six farming properties from listed company PrimeAg Australia in a deal worth $36.7 million.
Arab and Chinese investments in Bulgarian agriculture
- Radio Bulgaria
- 29 May 2012
Foreign investors have shown real interest towards Bulgarian agriculture for the past 2-3 years. The trend has changed a bit and now different Arab countries and China are the interested ones, instead of Italy, France, etc.
Land grabs and food sovereignty in Africa : Call for proposals
- CODESRIA
- 29 May 2012
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is launching a call for proposal for all interested researchers and academics in its Multinational Working Group on a theme titled: “Land grabs and food sovereignty in Africa”.