Hassad Food Co, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has bought a majority stake in an Indian basmati rice company for more than $100m, it was reported on Wednesday.
The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act was first passed in 1980 by Congress to limit foreign control over US farmland. Obama now wants things changed.
El acaparamiento de tierras que se está registrando en todo el mundo ha empezado a atraer la atención internacional, y no tanto porque se trate de un fenómeno nuevo, sino por las dimensiones y ritmo con que se está produciendo.
La Vía Campesina Centroamericana en todos sus debates ha expresado que el acaparamiento de tierras está dirigido por grandes inversores, dueños de plantaciones, empresas madereras, hidroeléctricas y mineras.
The charge was filed after Ona allegedly spoke out against possible government corruption involving Soleman Liban, a senior advisor to Gabonese President Ali Bongo, and Olam Gabon, a foreign agricultural company that operates in Gabon.
In an effort to help tackle food security, officials yesterday agreed to double the capital of the Arab Authority for Agriculture Investment and Development, a multilateral lender aimed at promoting investment in agriculture.
A pending agreement for Iran to graze sheep inside Armenia has sparked a furor among Armenian environmentalists and nationalists over whether or not the prospective deal poses a threat to the country’s national security.
Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
Esta entrada ha sido escrita por Carolina García, de la campaña @AfricaSeMueve (Solidaridad Internacional - Habitáfrica - IPADE). El caso de Senegal muestra en directo los riesgos de una liberalización de la tierra que desproteja los derechos de las comunidades rurales vulnerables.
Para proteger la producción local. Santa Fe propuso que el límite de las mil hectáreas a titulares extranjeros se extienda a todo el territorio.
Some African states have been accused of complicity in the problem of land grab by investors. Cecile Leuba of Peuples Solidaire and Action Aid France says this is having a serious effect on the local people who lose their land.
L'annonce en 2012 du gouvernement de faire de ce pays le principal producteur d'huile de palme d'Afrique provoque déjà un conflit entre les promoteurs de ces grandes plantations et les populations forestieres.
