The bill's pricing rules would oblige developers to pay up to four times the market rate for land in rural areas and twice the rate in urban areas. Displaced people must also be given homes and jobs.
Adecoagro will assist FMN in the management and development of Kaboji Farm, one of the largest commercial farms in Nigeria, comprising 10,000 ha of maize and soybean.
A meeting called to address the problems facing Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, was cancelled. The farm directors who had flown in from India kept off the venue of the meeting due to the anger of union officials and the farm workers
Today foreigners hold less than 2% of all agricultural land in the US. However, this share is growing as more foreign pension funds and others look to cash in on a boom in farmland values and commodity prices.
An indigenous peoples’ rights group has vowed to map millions of hectares of customary land in Indonesia, an ambitious target it hopes will help protect indigenous forests from encroachment by palm oil and pulp and paper concessions.
Swedfund film focuses on the people living in the Sierra Leone countryside affected by the Addax Bioenergy sugarcane project.
Agriculture is central to Chinese and Brazilian development efforts – how trailblazing are their methods?
This article examines Brazilian cooperation practices in the agricultural sector in Mozambique against a backdrop of its discourse
Transcript of a webinar with Dr. Claire Schaffnit-Chatterjee, Senior analyst, Deutsche Bank Research and Michael Schneider, Director, Head of Environmental & Social Capital Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management
In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a German coffee firm on a 99-year lease. The company insists the deal was above board, but an NGO is now raising doubts
The limits of corporate social responsibility – the case of the company Desarrollo Agrícola del Paraguay
Foreign companies have gained rights to 5 million ha of customary land in Papua Guinea; one provincial governor's now declared a moratorium on new deals.
