Large-scale soy monoculture is expanding rapidly in Latin America. Boosted by dubious investment from multi-national corporations, it has moved well beyond the southern states and into the Amazon area.
Een varios países se establecen límites a la adquisición de tierras por extranjeros. En Argentina, los extranjeros pueden adquirir hasta 15% de la tierra rural.
With demand for food rising with China's growing population and economy, domestic companies are looking to boost investments in resource-rich foreign countries such as Brazil and Indonesia to fill the food supply gap at home.
Presented by FGV at JICA's ProSAVANA Seminar, "Fourth Opinion Sharing Meeting on Agriculture Development of Northern Mozambique: reporting from the triangular joint mission to promote agriculture investment in the Nacala Corridor", June 5, 2012.
Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.
SLC Agricola, the Brazil farm operator with large ambitions in farmland acquisition, sealed a $239m cash injection from UK fund manager Valiance Asset Management for a business aimed at turning scrub into "high-quality" farms.
BTG Pactual Cesar Campos FGV parceria projetos Roberto Rodrigues Tropical Belt
The Singapore-based trading house paid R$255m ($129m) to acquire the Usina Açucareira Passos (UAP) mill, in which it pledged to invest a further $111.5m in the next five years to boost both cane growing and producing capacity.
Empresas brasileiras com maior parte de composição acionária nas mãos de estrangeiros podem escapar da imposição atual de limitar a extensão de área na hora de adquirir terras no Brasil.
Sweden's SEK216bn (€24bn) buffer fund AP2 and TIAA-CREF have increased commitments to an agricultural property company launched last year to $2bn (€1.6bn), attracting interest from several Canadian investors.
Los carperos de la zona de Colonia Agüerito decidieron emplazar al Gobierno por 15 días para la compra de unas 7.800 hectáreas, propiedad del empresario brasileño Ulises Rodrigues Teixeira. Si no hay respuesta, anuncian nuevas ocupaciones.
In this extract from his book The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth, Fred Pearce witnesses the relentless plundering by intensive commercial farmers of Brazil’s rich savannah
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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