Farmland meets finance: Is land the new economic bubble?
- Food First
- 27 May 2014
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
Equatorial Palm Oil Ltd risks closure as member of Grand Bassa County legislative caucus lobbies to ensure that the operations of the company be halted due to allegations of land grabs.
"The institutional ‘herd’ will eventually find agricultural investment,' delegates told at the Global AgInvesting Conference in New York.
A Mauritius sugarcane firm Omnicane is set to invest $250 million into sugarcane plantations in northern Ghana
The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”
Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.
Global corporations are increasingly influencing development policy, resulting in partnership agreements like the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security that grow corporate profits while endangering the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.
L’indien Shri Vallabh Pittie et les américains VF et Phillips Van Heusen viennent de boucler une tournée en Ethiopie où le président a réaffirmé son engagement à mettre à disposition 3m d’ha pour la culture du coton
Opening a bank account may seem like a trivial thing to do for most consumers. But such decisions may have consequences for deforestation and human rights abuses in the developing world, writes Anne van Schaik.
Lord Sainsbury’s new investment company, called Msingi, will support the establishment of new companies in East Africa in key sectors like agriculture.
'Grabbing back' maps the struggle of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.
“We can have a nice debate about foreign investment here in Australia, but in the global context it isn’t a discussion about whether it is nice to have, we need it, we absolutely need it.”