Dairy investors John Penno and Juliet Maclean are selling out of Chinese-controlled Purata Farms, the Canterbury corporate they founded 15 years ago as Synlait Farms.
Contrary to reports that Chinese firms were buying or leasing millions of hectares of prime African farmland, Chinese investors have acquired only about 240,000 hectares.
Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.
Journal of Peasant Studies issue focusing on agrarian social movements in Brazil, includes struggles for land.
Human rights advocates criticize the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee in Ethiopia and two other environmental defenders
Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, Nigeria designed the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. Is this a model for the future or just another myth?
Nearly nine out of every 10 people who responded to a Saskatchewan government survey say they don’t want the province’s farmland to end up in foreign hands.
“The vast majority of respondents do not support pension plans or foreign investors purchasing farmland in Saskatchewan. They do, however, support our government in taking a stronger role in enforcing farmland ownership rules."
Zambia's government has courted foreign investors by offering land and large tax breaks as incentives, but this has led to displacement of local people. The lucky few have been paid peanuts as compensation.
Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty
The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway.
Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.
