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“Land grabs” in agriculture: Fairer deals needed to ensure opportunity for locals
- Worldwatch Institute
- 26 July 2011
The US-based Worldwatch Institute recommends three considerations to help guide global land transactions to promote mutual benefit.
Transferência de terras na África ameaça alimentação, diz ONG
- Terra
- 26 July 2011
O domínio de terras agrícolas por países ricos na África, a fim de alimentar suas próprias populações, pode deixar os moradores rurais africanos sem terra e trabalho, agravando o problema da fome no continente.
Gobierno quiere controlar tenencia y extranjerización de tierra
- Subrayado
- 26 July 2011
El Ejecutivo elabora otros dos proyectos de ley que apuntan a controlar en qué manos están las tierras uruguayas.
Etiopía vende sus tierras a pesar de la hambruna
- Guin Guin Bali
- 26 July 2011
Enormes extensiones de tierra fértil en la zona del río Omo, en el sureste de Etiopía, se están alquilando a empresas malasias, italianas y coreanas.
State planning to own at least 30% of Ukraine's farmland
- Kyiv Post
- 26 July 2011
"Although the World Bank is not happy with the absence of companies in the farmland market, we're insisting on our position, which remains unchanged," Deputy Head of the State Agency for Land Resources of Ukraine, Mykola Kaliuzhny, has said.
Govt quizzed over controversial land deal with US firm
- The Guardian
- 26 July 2011
Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives shadow minister Meshack Opurukwa has questioned a contract between the government of Tanzania and a US-based firm – Agrisol Energy – in which the latter is to acquire huge chunks of land in Rukwa region to produce food crops.
Fixing Pak food problems
- Pakistan Observer
- 26 July 2011
The Government of Pakistan should avoid providing land to the foreign investors and encourage the local small farmers for rapid poverty reduction and food security in the country.
Révélation : l’Ethiopie cède des terres agricoles à des compagnies étrangères en pleine période de famine
- Survival
- 25 July 2011
Une enquête de Survival International a apporté des preuves alarmantes selon lesquelles les tribus indigènes sont spoliées de leurs terres agricoles les plus productives pour être allouées à des compagnies étrangères qui y pratiqueront une agriculture intensive d’exportation
Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve
- Survival
- 25 July 2011
A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopia’s most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food – while thousands of its citizens starve during the devastating drought.
Madagascar nel mirino dei rapinatori di terre
- Il Fatto Alimentare
- 25 July 2011
Le iniziative popolari per contrastare i land grabbers.
Restrição à compra de terras por estrangeiros é prioridade de comissão
- Agência Câmara de Notícias
- 25 July 2011
As propostas que tratam da compra de terras por estrangeiros são a prioridade da Comissão de Agricultura, Pecuária, Abastecimento e Desenvolvimento Rural para votação no segundo semestre.
Mauritanie : halte à la confiscation des terres
- Peuples Solidaires
- 25 July 2011
Il y a un an, les populations de Boghé apprennent par un simple avis au public préfectoral que 40 000 hectares de leurs terres vont être « mis à disposition » d’une entreprise saoudienne. Depuis, elles n’ont obtenu aucune information précise sur le projet.
Pakistan offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
- The News
- 24 July 2011
Pakistan is ready to offer free agriculture land to Japanese farmers who lost their crops and land in the March earthquake and tsunami, Tariq Puri, chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan said in a meeting with Japanese officials.
Soya y tierra para extranjeros
- La razón
- 24 July 2011
"Pareciera que el propósito es no permitir la identificación precisa de la cada vez mayor presencia extranjera en el agronegocio soyero, pero particularmente de la propiedad extranjera de grandes extensiones de tierra”
Apex launch The Africasia Funds
- Apex Fund Services
- 23 July 2011
The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund