The leader of the Green party in British Columbia wants to see the government ban foreigners from buying farmland in a bid to cool the province’s real estate market.
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has issued an edict warning all local chiefs and traditional rulers to desist from land grabbing or face dethronement.
A group of state and private companies will invest a total of 6.9 billion yuan($1.04 billion) in COFCO Capital, a subsidiary of state-run agribusiness COFCO Group.
AreaOne Farms Fund III exceeded its target by signing up more limited partners, including three Canadian institutions — an endowment, an insurer and a pension fund
Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country.
Liu Yonghao, chairman of China’s agrichemical business New Hope has joined a brood of bidders for a £1bn takeover of Northern Irish poultry giant Moy Park.
China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports.
Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company.
Brazil’s Supreme Court made two key decisions that strongly favored the country’s indigenous communities last Wednesday, against the claims of Mato Grosso state.
Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.
A USD 310 million investment contract signed between private companies for Agro-industrial Complex of Capanda (PAC) in northern Malanje province, Angola. The Agro-industrial Park occupies an area of 411.000 hectares.
65 civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) from across the world signed a unity statement urging Cambodian government to release land rights activist Tep Vanny, who has been in detention for the past 12 months.
