Members of the European Parliament adopted last 29 April a motion calling for mandatory human rights due diligence for corporations. The Council and Commission are not legally obliged to follow through.
This report has been written for emerging market private equity fund managers. It highlights trends in private equity investment in emerging markets agribusiness
“Russia and China’s investment in agriculture will enable the development of large areas of [uncultivated] arable land on the borders between our countries,” RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev was quoted as saying.
Some estimates now bring the total of Ukrainian farmland controlled by foreign companies to over 2.2 million ha.
In this presentation Ward Anseeuw describes the increasing financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impact this has on land and food availability.
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
SigmaBleyzer's company AgroGeneration manages fields of wheat, sunflowers and other crops in five Ukrainian regions and is looking for deals to expand farm operations in the country
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived. A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.
My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.
One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.
