Preparation to counter the gathering of 1,000 African Land Buyers who paid an entrance fee of 3,000 dollar at Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York for their conference from April 23 to April 25 is underway.
After a year-long legal battle, China will be allowed to buy farmland in new Zealand. Some experts say these purchases are less about business and more about rich countries securing their own food supply at the expense of less well off nations.
In the Philippines, Akbayan Party-list Representatives Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao and Walden Bello are pushing for a bill that regulates large scale foreign investments on land.
US groups call on Harvard to reconsider its institutional participation in agricultural land investments and to look for more just and sustainable ways to support its educational and research missions.
Landgrab celebrated on this April 24th at the Waldorf Astoria. We must move faster & with force - not get trapped by systematic 1%er crimes like the Global Ag.
Presentations by Antonio Tricarico of CRBM (financialisation of nature in general) and Devlin Kuyek of GRAIN (land grabbing as specific sector / example)
A policy paper will next week be presented to the annual World Bank conference on land and poverty in Washington DC in the United States, which focuses on the confrontation between peasant producers and investors in the Mozambican province of Zambezia.
La ONG ha presentando en Madrid el informe "Responsabilidad extraterritorial de los Estados. El expolio de recursos en África Subsahariana"
Audizione al Parlamento Europeo
CP Group has opened an office in Melbourne to start buying red meat and grains and set up a salmon farm in Australia.
Pakistan has announced an investment policy which is encouraging the corporate sector to engage vast lands in all four provinces of Pakistan on very easy terms.
Manifestation devant le siège de Pergam Finance : cet investisseur s'est porté acquéreur « de plus de 45.000 hectares en Uruguay et en Argentine » et contribue à priver les paysans du Sud de leur terre en s'alliant à Monsanto pour y planter des OGM, selon les manifestants.
Une cinquantaine de manifestants étaient hier après-midi à Bages, devant les locaux de la société Pergam Finance, pour manifester contre l'accaparement des terres à des fins spéculatives au détriment des paysans.
China, the world's most populous country and biggest consumer of grain, should expand its farming overseas to ensure enough food for its people because of limited land and low productivity at home, agriculture experts said on Wednesday.
Governments in the global south are claiming farmland is 'empty' and 'unused' – and flogging it off to foreigners who promise investment. The June summit in Rio needs to call a halt to this.
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