“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.
The Bukhoro-Agro free economic zone is expected to host local and foreign investment in greenhouses, offering special tax and customs regimes valid on its territory and financing from international financial institutions
The EU could commit to only import legal palm oil into the EU and engage in a dialogue with Indonesia to improve governance of palm oil production, says FERN
Naivasha-based flower firm Karuturi has sued Stanbic Bank and four receiver managers for allegedly thwarting its revival through mismanagement and secret acquisition of loans.
Dangote said he would expand the project and exploit what he called Katsina’s vast arable land for other agriculture initiatives and allied business ventures.
Judicial police say they have found evidence of money laundering and the use of irregular documents in the acquisition of vineyards.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Umirzak Shukeyev says there are many advantages for foreign companies investing in agriculture in Kazakhstan, such as the availability of 180 million ha of natural pastures.
The decision was announced a week after Greenpeace issued a report that exposed links to Gama Plantation, a palm oil business that Greenpeace accused of destroying rainforest twice the size of Paris in Papua, Indonesia.
A South African company says it has filed for arbitration against Democratic Republic of Congo’s government, seeking to recover nearly $20 million it says it is owed from a failed agriculture project.
Communities in Papua New Guinea's West Pomio District will suffer more than $US73 million worth of damage due to Special Agriculture Business Leases, according to a local advocacy group Act Now.
Report finds that Golden Veroleum Liberia violated the rights of communities to the customary ownership of their lands, violated the Liberian laws and international standards, and even breached its own policies.
A new report uncovers how international pension funds, foreign investments and institutions are tearing down any future for rural communities in Northeastern Brazil.
