China's New Hope is accelerate overseas acquisitions in a bid to become a top supplier of meat and is raising $450 million through Hosen Capital, which counts Temasek and Mitsui as founding investors.
Land grabs for megaprojects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, monoculture agribusiness and petroleum extraction continue and even intensify.
On 3 February, President Santos signed the Zidres Law, which actually serves the interest of land grabbers in Colombia
The Global convergence of struggles for land and water calls on President Koroma to end the criminalisation of MALOA activists resisting Socfin in Sierra Leone.
Pengxin, a little-known Shanghai real estate developer that owns Theland milk powder, will become the world’s largest private landowner if Australia’s authorities clear its most ambitious bid yet.
Royal FrieslandCampina NV, a Dutch dairy company, is seeking to buy a 51 percent stake in Engro Foods Ltd. of Pakistan, the country's second-biggest listed dairy firm and owner of one of the country's largest dairy farms.
This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, conducted by Simone Adler. Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains vulnerable to land grabs from governments and corporations.
While vast tracts of Cambodia remain concentrated in the hands of a few and accusations of land grabbing remain rife, the broader distribution of land is more than equitable, the government says.
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
So says the chairman of Socfin’s board of directors, Luc Boedt, in response to the occupation of the company’s headquarters by several Belgian NGOs.
Australia's deputy prime minister on Tuesday urged the country's A$1.8 trillion (US$1.3 trillion) pension fund industry to boost its investment in agriculture as the sector gears up to meet strong demand from Asia.
