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Land Grab in the Rainforest

Posted on April 17, 2016 by | Leave a comment

Get the information in this video and join the Petition: Letter to the Governor

 

 

 

 

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A Do or Die Affair: Episode 3 of Radio Drama on Land (Agroecology)

Posted on November 9, 2015 by | Leave a comment

A Do or Die Affair

Small Scale Family Farming/Production Systems based on agro-ecological and indigenous approaches, that sustain food sovereignty and the livelihoods of communities can be the answer to climate change and land grabbing. Many farmers migrate to urban areas or foreign countries because they don’t know how to improve their farms. Listen here to the Radio Drama and download the full Radio Drama Scripts to translate and adapt the drama for your own radio show.

 

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False Promise – Radio Drama Episode 2 (Land & Corruption)

Posted on November 9, 2015 by | Leave a comment

A broad alliance from World Bank to G8, from governments to multi-national corporations promotes large scale agriculture to improve food security, to create jobs and to bring development to rural communities. Very often farmers give up their land rights to follow this dream. Liste here to the Radio Drama and download the Radio Drama Scripts to tranlate into your own language.

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Nigeria : Staple Crop Processing Zone in Kogi – another form of land grabbing?

Posted on September 1, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Nigeria developped the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. An investor brings a food processing plant, so the idea, the farmers sell their produce to him/her. The farmers remain independant and keep their land. Is this a model for the future or ajust another myth?
i-resource reporter Andrew Iloh visited the site. Continue reading →

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Land is the biggest obstacle to women power in agriculture, says female food hero

Posted on January 10, 2014 by | Leave a comment

Published: November 1, 2013

By Peter Jopke

For Susan Godwin, this nation’s role model female farmer, honour came with a sense of irony. At the time Oxfam, the global development civic group, and a network of other NGOs were recognizing her with the award of Nigeria’s Female Food Hero, in far away Washington DC, her landlord broke the tenancy agreement that made her a successful farmer in the first place. Continue reading →

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Nigeria: Landgrabbing for Nigeria’s rice revolution

Posted on January 10, 2014 by | 1 comment

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Premium Times | 3 January 2014
by Peter Jopke

The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms. The Memorandum of Understanding of the public-private partnership was signed in February 2012. Continue reading →

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