Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve
    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.
    • Survival
    • 25 July 2011
    Madagascar nel mirino dei rapinatori di terre
    Le iniziative popolari per contrastare i land grabbers.
    • Il Fatto Alimentare
    • 25 July 2011
    Restrição à compra de terras por estrangeiros é prioridade de comissão
    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.
    • Agência Câmara de Notícias
    • 25 July 2011
    Mauritanie : halte à la confiscation des terres
    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.
    • Peuples Solidaires
    • 25 July 2011
    Pakistan offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
    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.
    • The News
    • 24 July 2011
    Soya y tierra para extranjeros
    "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”
    • La razón
    • 24 July 2011
    Apex launch The Africasia Funds
    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
    • Apex Fund Services
    • 23 July 2011
    Draft Resolution by the Pan African Parliament
    Draft resolution from the workshop of the Pan African Parliament under the theme Making investment Work for Africa: a Parliamentarian Response to “Land Grabs”
    • PAP
    • 22 July 2011
    En Ethiopie, la famine côtoie l’abondance
    Alors que des millions de personnes sont gravement menacées de famine dans la Corne de l’Afrique, des investisseurs étrangers récoltent dans la même région des tonnes de céréales à destination de l’Asie ou des pays du Golfe.
    • swissinfo
    • 21 July 2011
    Montpellier 15/9/2011 : Acquisitions foncières à grande échelle au Sud : jeux stratégiques entre décideurs publics, investisseurs et acteurs locaux
    Le programme prévoit notamment une présentation des résultats des études coordonnées par l’International Land Coalition, ainsi qu’un focus sur la zone Office du Niger au Mali.
    • Hub Rural
    • 21 July 2011
    Land grabs, zero sum game
    How can we ensure that women do not fall into a trap of the idea of land ownership in a context where even those (men) who have secure rights are not able to hold on to their tenure!
    • Land for African Women
    • 21 July 2011
    Famine and abundance rub shoulders in Ethiopia
    While millions of people in the Horn of Africa suffer a terrible drought, foreign investors are harvesting tonnes of cereals to be exported to Asia and the Gulf states.
    • Infosud/swissinfo.ch
    • 21 July 2011
    Kilombero boiling with land-grabbing disputes
    Land-Grabbing is slowly becoming a serious problem in Tanzania with the poor being turned into landless citizens in their own country in the name of foreign investors.
    • The Guardian
    • 20 July 2011
    Conferencia internacional «Paremos el acaparamiento de tierras» del 17 al 20 de noviembre de 2011 en NYELENI/MALI
    Se trata de conseguir un Plan de acción aprobado por las organizaciones campesinas y las ONGs en contra de los acaparamientos a nivel local, nacional e internacional.
    • Vía Campesina
    • 20 July 2011
    Vuelve debate sobre la extranjerización de la tierra
    El Gobierno ya había previsto en diciembre del año 2010 cederle tierras del Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca - MGAP- al Instituto Nacional de Colonización, que son precisamente las tierras que estuvieron en tela de juicio en el Cabo Polonio.
    • Espectador
    • 20 July 2011
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