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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Library ResourceJanuary, 2013Africa
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2013Africa
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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Library ResourceAfrica
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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Case studies and some legal aspects on the palm oil sector
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2013AfricaThe "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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LDPI Working Paper 31 by Martina Locher , Emmanuel Sulle
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Africa"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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Library ResourceEurope
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network
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Library ResourceGlobal
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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Library ResourceGlobal
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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Library ResourceAfrica
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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Library ResourceGlobal
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.
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