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  1. Library Resource
    Adquisiciones de tierra agrícola fallidas

    Un creciente legado de desastre y dolor

    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Global

    El año 2017 terminó como uno de los más fatídicos para los defensores de la tierra. También fue un año muy malo para muchos acaparadores de tierras. Un número significativo de adquisiciones, de grandes extensiones de tierras agrícolas, colapsó, agregándose a una lista creciente de proyectos que han fracasado en años recientes. Si bien esto es una buena noticia para las comunidades afectadas, a muchas de ellas se les deja enfrentadas a esta caída y teniendo que seguir luchando por recuperar sus tierras.

  2. Library Resource
    November, 2018

    Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector’s massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing;under the radar. This unprecedented take-over of farmland by financial companies has major implications for rural communities and food systems;and must be challenged. Leaving it to the companies to police themselves with their own voluntary guidelines is a recipe for disaster.

  3. Library Resource
    Harvard's billion-dollar farmland fiasco cover image
    Reports & Research
    September, 2018
    Global

    One of the world's major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humano presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard University's controversial investments in global farmland.


    The report finds that:


  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2018
    Africa

    GRAIN has documented at least 135 farmland deals for food crop production that have backfired between 2007 and 2017. They represent 17.5 million hectares. These are not failed land grabs, since the land almost never goes back to the communities, but failed agribusiness projects. While higher standards of due diligence and stronger forms of liability are surely needed, the real challenge is to get the land back to the communities. No one should rest until that is achieved.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    Africa

    Includes water mining: the wrong type of farming, when the Nile runs dry, the Niger, another lifeline at risk, selected African land deals and their water implications, hydro-colonialism?, virtual water, grabbing carbon credits, stop the water grab.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Africa

    Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. Includes what exactly does the data tell us?, despite many failed deals, the problem is real, the food security agenda is still a factor driving farmland deals, agribusiness expansion is the main objective, the financial sector is a big player,offshore and illicit finance underpin these deals, farmland grabs are also water grabs, cause for hope: resistance is growing.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    This website contains mainly news reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring or researching the issue, particularly social activists, non-government organisations and journalists.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2017
    Cambodia

    A new joint report from Community Network in Action (CNA), Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) exposes the devastating consequences of land grabs for indigenous communities in Preah Vihear province, northern Cambodia. 


  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2016
    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Fondos de desarrollo europeos y estadounidenses están financiando la compañía de aceite de palma Feronia Inc. a pesar de los conflictos por la tierra y con los trabajadores en sus plantaciones de la República Democrática del Congo. Nueva información levanta dudas de si la compañía, con sede en Canadá, pudo haber desviado millones de los contribuyentes, destinados a la asistencia internacional mediante companías conectadas con un político de alto nivel en la RDC.


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