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Corridors pour la croissance agricole en Afrique et la Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition: Qui en bénéficie, qui perd?

January, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
land policies
food security
Ce bref rapport examine comment les gouvernements, les institutions financières internationales et les sociétés mondiales collaborent dans de nouveaux projets en Afrique (actuellement au Mozambique et en Tanzanie) pour réorganiser terres et des eaux et de créer une infrastructure industrielle sur des millions d'hectares dans le but d'assurer un approvisionnement soutenu de produits de base et des bénéfices pour les marchés. Le concept de corridors est apparue lors du Forum économique mondial, et plusieurs grandes entreprises sont impliquées.
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- English
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African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?

January, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
land policies
food security
This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa (currently in Mozambique and Tanzania) to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares in order to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets. The Corridors concept first emerged at the World Economic Forum and a number of major corporations are involved.
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- Français
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Human Rights Watch report on Mozambique

Africa
Land & Investments
farmers
agriculture
land grabbing
land governance
land policies
extractive industries
food security
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
research
Please find links below to a recent Human Rights Watch report and video on the human rights impacts of coal mining in Mozambique. Our report shows that almost 60% of Tete province, site of large coal reserves, has been allocated for approved or proposed mining licenses. The report examines how serious shortcomings in government policy and mining companies’ (Vale, Riversdale, Rio Tinto) implementation uprooted largely self-sufficient farming communities and resettled them to arid land far from rivers and markets.

Happy to be in touch to provide any additional information.
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Liberia

Case studies and some legal aspects on the palm oil sector

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land grabbing
extractive industries
land policies
land markets
food security
research
The "Bread for All-Protestant Development Service" recently released a document based on three case studies on the palm oil sector in Liberia.
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Foreign land deals in Tanzania - An update and a critical view on the challenges of data (re)production

LDPI Working Paper 31 by Martina Locher , Emmanuel Sulle

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land grabbing
extractive industries
forestry
land markets
food security
natural resources management
research
"In the absence of an easily available source of reliable up-to-date data on foreign land deals in Tanzania, many reports have been published that attempt to provide an overview of these deals. While providing this overview is challenging due to the dynamic and non-transparent nature of the 'land grab' phenomenon itself, it has become even more debatable due to certain questionable methods of using and quoting existing data. This leads to several flaws including the ‘virtual survival’ of cancelled land deals ‘on paper’.
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Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe

Europe
Land & Investments
farmers
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
property law
rural development
land governance
land policies
food security
advocacy
natural resources management
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network
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ICARRD Resources

Global
Land & Investments
farmers
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
land governance
land policies
land area
land markets
food security
climate change
advocacy
natural resources management
environment
research
The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. A summary Final Report on the conference can be found Here. Attached are the resources, presentations, and papers from the conference.
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IFPRI 2012 Global Food Policy Report

Global
Land & Investments
farmers
agriculture
rural development
land policies
land markets
food security
natural resources management
research
International Food Policy Research Institute

IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012. By putting into perspective the year's food policy successes and disappointments, it suggests how to move forward those policies that improve the food situation for the poor. Reflecting the expertise and experience of IFPRI researchers and other leading food policy experts, the report considers sever crucial questions:
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The G8 and Land Grabs in Africa

Africa
Land & Investments
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
land policies
land markets
food security
GRAIN

The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness.

Read the full article Here
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Empowering Women is Shortcut to Tackling Hunger - UN expert on Right to Food

Global
farmers
women
agriculture
food security
gender equity in access to land
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

GENEVA (4 March 2013) – “Sharing power with women is a shortcut to reducing hunger and malnutrition, and is the single most effective step to realizing the right to food,” said the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, while urging world governments to adopt transformative food security strategies that address cultural constraints and redistribute roles between women and men.