Israel

La ferme agropastorale de Ntoum, créée comme bientôt cinq autres dans le cadre d’une convention signée par l’État gabonais avec une société spécialisée israélienne, a reçu ce lundi la visite du Président de la République

Durante un bien documentado debate y con sólidas pruebas, el senador Jorge Enrique Robledo demostró cómo algunas empresas con la complicidad de poderosos bufetes de abogados se han apropiado ilegalmente de baldíos.

El senador Colombiano Jorge Enrique Robledo denunció un nuevo caso de apropiación ilegal de baldíos por parte de una multinacional.

Le président du Conseil d’administration, Gora Seck, de la société Senhuile/Senéthanol revient sur les grandes lignes et les retombées économiques du projet qui suscite beaucoup de réactions de la part de certaines populations locales.

Wealthy countries, and private companies from those countries, have been increasingly buying up land in poor areas for their own economic purposes, a new study says. And Israel turns out to be one of the leading land grabbers.

Vital Capital Investments LP, the private-equity firm that invests in housing and agriculture businesses in Africa, said it raised more than $250 million for its first fund.

In recent years sixteen investors, from Israel, Ethiopia and the Netherlands, have opened large-scale farms nearby the village of Hidi, south of Addis Ababa.

"I will give [Nigeria's] CHICASON not less than 50,000 acres of land anywhere in the country," says the President of Sierra Leone.

Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.

Vietnamese and Chinese investors will cultivate 10,000 acres and 15,000 acres of land for rice and cassava in Edo State, Nigeria, respectively.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi calls it the “new feudalism.” Groups representing peasant farmers call it “land grabs.” The United Nations literature dispersed at this week's UN food summit in Rome calls it “direct foreign investment.”

BDFC has already been given 17,400ha of land in 2008 for the production of sugar cane, a year after it came to Ethiopia. It is also getting close to receiving an additional 13,000hct in the same area of the Tana-Beles Basin of Jawi Wereda, Hawi Zone of Amhara Regional State.