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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 22 Feb 2017
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Liberia: Cease governmental surveillance and harassment against human rights advocates defending land and natural resource rights. Send letter to President Sirleaf
 
 
Tell TIAA-CREF to go deforestation and land grab-free!
 
Global Trade Review | 22 Feb 2017
Brazil to allow foreign lenders to hold land

Foreign lenders and investors are eagerly awaiting a change of law in Brazil, after finance minister Henrique Meirelles suggested they would be allowed to use land as collateral in trade finance and other loans from March onwards.

Naija247news | 21 Feb 2017
Nigeria in talks with China over $4.5b loan for large scale farming investment

Federal Government of Nigeria has opened negotiation with Peoples Republic of China over $4.5 billion loan to facilitate the production of agricultural machineries for large scale farming in selected states across the country.

Slow Food | 20 Feb 2017
France says “non” to land grabbing

The French Parliament has definitively adopted a bill aimed at curbing the grabbing of agricultural land by greedy and unscrupulous investors, in order to guarantee the country’s national sovereignty and support the family farming model

Interafx | 20 Feb 2017
Ukraine: MPs apply to Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium

An appeal signed by 55 lawmakers has been sent to the Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium in Ukraine.

Thompson Reuters Foundation | 16 Feb 2017
Brazil pushes on with plan to open farmland sales to foreigners

Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.

For Security | 16 Feb 2017
China's SINOCONST to invest in Belarusian agricultural industry

Joint Belarusian-Chinese company JSC SP ABC-Invest will implement an investment project in the agricultural industry in Minsk Oblast. The project will upgrade a pig farm (capacity of 11,500 head per year) and meat processing plant among other things.

Agrimoney | 16 Feb 2017
Russian farmland 'retains allure', despite Black Earth Farming exit

Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.

Act Now | 15 Feb 2017
Stolen SABL land would reach all the way to the moon

Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been stolen in the SABL land grab in Papua New Guinea.

Awoko | 13 Feb 2017
Obliterating legal rights in large scale land deals in Sierra Leone

The present crop of large-scale land lease agreements with MNCS in Sierra Leone are fraught with serious, challengeable, and voidable provisions. If they are not renegotiated, then going to court for specific impact litigation will be the only way out.

Filipino Times | 26 Jan 2017
PH agri attaché eyes ‘food security’ ties with UAE

The Philippine Embassy’s agricultural counsellor is looking at working on an agreement in the area of food security with the UAE government

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Comité technique F&D | 21 fev 2017
Gouvernance foncière : quel bilan quatre ans après l’adoption des Directives volontaires ?

Même si les achats massifs de terre semblent moins visibles ces dernières années, les accaparements fonciers se poursuivent sous de nouvelles formes.

IIED | 31 jan 2017
Au Sénégal, l’accès aux terres des exploitants familiaux menacé

Le Sénégal possède un système de gouvernance foncière complexe et mal réglementé qui, conjugué à une urbanisation rapide et à un intérêt croissant des investisseurs étrangers, débouche sur la privatisation des terres et la diminution des terres arables à la disposition des exploitants familiaux

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El Zonda | 21 feb 2017
Brasil: El gobierno de Temer impulsa una polémica ley que permite a extranjeros comprar 100 mil hectáreas

En marzo podrá ser aprobada esta ley que permite la compra de tierras productivas a empresas y fondos de inversión extranjeros, una medida resistida por las Fuerzas Armadas y rechazada por la oposición y grupos ambientalistas.

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| 22 Feb 2017
ProSavana: Sociedade Civil moçambicana exige imediata suspensão das acções da JICA

Organizações moçambicanas da sociedade civilrecentemente uma carta aberta ao Presidente JICA) protestando contra a atuação da agência japonesa no âmbito do programa de desenvolvimento agrário mais resistido em Moçambique, o ProSavana.

| 22 Feb 2017
モザンビーク市民社会によるJICA宛公開書簡(「プロサバンナ事業におけるモザンビーク社会へのJICAの活動に対する抗議」)への賛同レター

要件:モザンビーク市民社会によるJICA宛公開書簡(「プロサバンナ事業におけるモザンビーク社会へのJICAの活動に対する抗議」)への賛同レター

MST | 20 Feb 2017
O Brasil é do povo brasileiro, a estrangeirização de terras deve ser combatida em diálogo com a sociedade

A sanha do governo de Michel Temer em atrair capital estrangeiro para o Brasil, com o objetivo de garantir a acumulação dos seus agentes financeiros parece não ter limites.

| 20 Feb 2017
Leaked Minutes of the Secret Meeting for ProSAVANA (Japanese translation) リークされた秘密会議録の日本語訳

原文は、下記サイトに掲載されているリーク文書。

| 17 Feb 2017
Protesto contra a actuação da JICA sobre a sociedade moçambicana no âmbito do programa ProSavana

Esta é a primeira carta que os camponeses e as organizações da sociedade civil de Moçambique articuladas na Campanha Não ao ProSavana endereçam à JICA.

| 17 Feb 2017
公開書簡 【日本語仮訳】Open Letter from “No to ProSAVANA” to JICA President

本状は、「プロサバンナにノー」を表明する農民と市民社会組織がともにJICAに提出する最初の書簡です。

Globo Rural | 16 Feb 2017
Brasil: Governo vai autorizar venda de terras para estrangeiros, diz Meirelles

O ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, disse que o governo pretende liberar nos próximos 30 dias a venda de terras brasileiras para os estrangeiros.

   Events  
Haus der Bauern | Schwäbisch Hall | 07 Mar 2017
Congrès «Global Peasants Rights»

http://global-peasants-rights.com/index.php/fr/congres/congres2

Banque mondiale | Washington DC | 20 Mar 2017
Conférence annuelle sur la terre et la pauvreté 2017: Gouvernance responsable des terres : vers une approche pragmatique

http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach

World Bank | Washington DC | 20 Mar 2017
Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach

http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/08/22/land-and-poverty-conference-2017-responsible-land-governance-towards-an-evidence-based-approach

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