The president of the African Development Bank says that this year it will launch the Africa Investment Forum as a transactional platform to leverage global pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in African agriculture
Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.
China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad and already directed interest to the French wheat. In France, the authorities learned lately about the acquisition of 1,700 hectares of cereal crops in central France thanks to clever attorney’s tricks.
Over the past four years Hu Keqin, owner of the Reward Group, has quietly snapped up 3,000 hectares of wheat fields in the central Indre and Allier regions of France.
A Chinese tycoon's purchase of vast wheat fields in France highlights China's increasing acquisition of foreign farmland as the Asian giant seeks to keep up with its massive population's growing appetite.
Indian businessman Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a 23-year-old woman staffer of a spa centre in Bengaluru and abusing policemen who rushed to her help.
Groups once again publicly denounce the alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities in the Cerrado in Piauí, part of the region where the federal government is implementing its Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan
President Emmanuel Macron has promised farmers that he will stop foreign investors buying up land in France, after a Chinese fund purchased swathes of rich agricultural land in the centre of the country.
Foreign companies and private individuals will not be able to take farmland even for temporary use, Astana TV reports.
PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and Agriculture Minister Benny Allan have promised the Philippines government at least one million hectares of land in Papua New Guinea for Filipino farmers to grow rice.
Despite repeated promises from the O’Neill government to cancel the agribusiness leases in Papua New Guinea, stretching back to 2013, almost nothing has been done.
Proterra Investment Partners, a private equity firm that was spun-off from agricultural giant Cargill, is raising $ 500 million to expand in Brazil, according to a person with direct knowledge of the subject.
