"At the end of the day — for all the stocks and funds I've traded in countless industries — when I sit down and ponder true wealth, I always come back to one idea: land. Land can give you everything you need and more."
Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.
D’une superficie de 190 000 ha, la communauté rurale de Mbane a affecté, selon le registre de Aliou Diack, 250 000 ha depuis 2002.
La Banque africaine de développement, la Commission de l'Union africaine et la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique organisent conjointement à Nairobi un Forum de haut niveau sur l’investissement direct étranger dans les terres agricoles en Afrique
SNS Impact Investing interviewed Dr. George Owusu from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana in Accra.
With opportunities in neighboring countries almost finished and due to the expensive land, Brazilian agriculture has started showing up in Africa, here and there, but promising to grow.
The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines
“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi
"We encourage countries to speed up reforms to modernise land rights," says new CEO.
Civil society -- small farmers, fisher and forest folk, pastoralists -- look with a great deal of suspicion at the US and other countries’ intentions, reports David Andrews about upcoming meetings in Rome
Africa e rapina delle terre: l'Italia finalmente apre gli occhi sul land grabbing nei Paesi più poveri. La dichiarazione di Dakar
Negotiations between Chinese Export-Import Bank and the Government of the Ukraine include discussion of its involvement in the financial operation of the land market in the Ukraine.
Lease contracts covering millions of hectares of agricultural lands signed by the Philippines Department of Agriculture with foreign entities during the Arroyo administration are currently being reviewed to determine if they are in accord with the current administration’s food security plan.
Intermon Oxfam señala que desde 2001 una superficie equivalente al continente europeo ha sido enajenada a favor de inversores internacionales
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Here’s how this fundie is making money from the land
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