SMC urged to tap contract farmers
- Business World
- 26 September 2011
The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.
The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.
Près de 18 mois après l’annonce du projet, l’Algérie vient de franchir un premier pas en vue d’ouvrir partiellement le secteur agricole à l’investissement étranger.
“As pessoas com direitos sobre a terra estão sendo prejudicadas diante das elites locais e dos investidores nacionais ou estrangeiros, pois carecem de poder para fazer valer seus direitos e defender seus interesses eficazmente”
Xinjiang and Nigxia present huge opportunities to Arab investors for mining coal, oil and gas as well as the development of wind and solar power, halal food industry and large-scale agriculture.
Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
Legislar sobre la extranjerización de la tierra no afecta ningún interés de los ganadores del actual modelo de agronegocios, donde la soja es sólo su cara más visible.
Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.
Alors que les informations sont données au compte-gouttes par nos élus, le collectif NOPALME est heureux de voir les prises de positions se succéder, soulignant l'aberration du projet dans le contexte mondial et régional.
El pasado día 13, 14 y 15 de septiembre se celebró en Dar es Salam, el décimo Festival de Género. El acaparamiento de tierras fue uno de los temas clave por la grave amenaza que puede suponer sobre el trabajo que se lleva desarrollando en relación al empoderamiento de las mujeres en Tanzania.
India-based company Karuturi Global Limited is planning to make an investment of $2.5 billion in farmland in Tanzania in the upcoming years.
Un partenariat international rassemblant universités, instituts publics de recherche et organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), le Land Matrix Partnership, s'est donné pour mission de dresser une véritable cartographie du phénomène d'appropriation foncière de terres agricoles par des investisseurs privés internationaux
Unfortunately, given the global nature of capital, even if the US were to completely shut down speculation, it would just move offshore.
La “nacionalidad” de los terratenientes en nuestro país no hace la diferencia entre los cientos de miles de hectáreas de las mejores tierras que tienen el italiano Benetton, el húngaro Soros o los argentinos Bunge y Born y Amalita Lacroze de Fortabat.
Stefan Christoff interviews Devlin Kuyek (GRAIN) on land grabbing
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