The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land
Rights.
What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.
- Triple Crisis Blog
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18 Mar 2015
The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.
What kind of role should the private sector have in the post-2015 fight against poverty and food insecurity? And how should EU governments ensure it is genuinely inclusive and responsible? Yaekob Metena explores the possibilities.
A series of private Vietnamese giants have expanded their investment in the agriculture sector, sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in cattle breeding and growing sugarcane and maize.
- Thanh Nien News
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18 Mar 2015
Contract farming and large-scale farming emerged as the two principal models to upgrade peasant agriculture to meaningful production levels
- Cameroon Tribune
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17 Mar 2015
Farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organizations, under the umbrella of Our Land Our Business, call World Bank’s annual Conference on Land and Poverty a sham.
Ten thousand peasant families are victims of the most aggressive and imperialist initiative backed by the G8 countries
Chinese companies are planning to invest in maize and tobacco farming in the Zambezi region of Namibia where the environment is very good and the land is fertile. The companies are now doing the preparatory work.
Mitchell's Yougawalla Pastoral Company the latest Australian cattle station business to be put up for sale. Foreign corporations have spent some A$63.5 million buying into the sector in the past month.
Understanding where the money for a given investment comes from and where the produce is sold can provide new levers for public accountability.