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"Exigimos se detenga la expansión de las plantaciones hasta que se realice el estudio de impacto ambiental comunitario y participativo pertinente".

Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust backed by Swiss, Danish and US fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.

In the face of evidence, the UK and US continue to deny systematic human rights abuses are occurring in the Lower Omo as thousands are displaced for an irrigation scheme.

Los Esteros del Iberá, en Corrientes volvieron a ser noticia esta semana: un informe sobre plantaciones que la Universidad de Harvard tiene allí acusa a la casa de altos estudios de no ser los suficientemente sustentables.

Le CED vient de révéler que les autorités du département du Koupé Manengouba ont recommandé l’octroi d’un bail emphytéotique sur 12 000 ha au profit de Herakles Farms.

AgroGeneration annonce que les accords définitifs sur les modalités financières et juridiques de son rapprochement avec Harmelia ont été finalisés et signés

On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.

A massive New Zealand farm the size of Christchurch has been sold to a North American investment group.

Smithfield Foods won national security clearance on Friday for its proposed $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to a takeover.

Gregory Myers, division chief of the US Agency for International Development’s land tenure and property rights division, argues that, done right, large-scale land acquisitions can boost development.

Adecoagro will assist FMN in the management and development of Kaboji Farm, one of the largest commercial farms in Nigeria, comprising 10,000 ha of maize and soybean.

Today foreigners hold less than 2% of all agricultural land in the US. However, this share is growing as more foreign pension funds and others look to cash in on a boom in farmland values and commodity prices.