Category Archives: land grab

Land grabbers in rural urban centre in Kenya (allAfrica / News from Africa)

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=26611 Women project to fight land grab http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_13512.html A seven-month project involving a grassroots women’s group and the provincial administration and with the support from the SIDA through the Embassy of Sweden in Kenya could end the … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, land grab

Legal frameworks regulating the land rush (IISD / IIED)

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List <land-l@lists.iisd.ca> Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment Emily Polack, Lorenzo Cotula, Muriel Côte In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in acquiring farmland for agricultural investments in … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, land grab

Focus on Land Rights (IPS)

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/world-bank-to-strengthen-focus-on-land-rights/ World Bank to Strengthen Focus on Land Rights The World Bank will be placing stronger emphasis on issues of land tenure and socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural investing, it announced Monday. The bank, one of the … Continue reading →

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Land Acquisitions in Tanzania (IISD / Mark PURDON)

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Land Acquisitions in Tanzania: Strong Sustainability, Weak Sustainability and the Importance of Comparative Methods Full text link:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-013-9442-2   Abstract: This paper distinguished different analytical approaches to the evaluation of the sustainability of large-scale land acquisitions—at both the conceptual and … Continue reading →

Posted in land grab, land tenure

Globalization, Land grabs and fragile food systems (ELDIS)

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=64351?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.UTcn5Md_bK0 Land grabs and fragile food systems: The role of globalization IATP have consistently argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalisation that privileges commercial interests and pushes … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, land grab

Fearing Foreign Land Grabs (IPS)

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/mozambican-farmers-fear-foreign-land-grabs/ Mozambican Farmers Fear Foreign Land Grabs By William Mapote Mozambican farmers’ unions believe that soon land will become very scarce for locals as the government leases more and more of it to foreign agribusinesses – thus … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, land grab

Nations to acquire quality agricultural land for food production (Science Daily)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122142845.htm First Global Assessment of Land and Water ‘Grabbing’ As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. Some nations are gaining land by … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, land grab

The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi (ELDIS)

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=63087?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29 Authors: Chinsinga, B Publisher: Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012 FAC Policy Brief 55 by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, food / food security, land grab

Land Grabbing Race in Tanzania (IPS)

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/curbing-tanzanias-land-grabbing-race/ Curbing Tanzania’s “Land Grabbing Race” DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 19 2012 (IPS) – From January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. … Continue reading →

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Un acaparamiento de agua (GRAIN)

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

Read at : [Novedades de GRAIN] Exprimiendo al África: detrás de todo acaparamiento de tierra hay un acaparamiento de agua. Los alimentos no pueden ser producidos sin agua. En África, una de cada tres personas sufre escasez de agua y … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, drought, land grab, Water