Industrialised nations critical of the draft document wanted to remove some fundamental elements from the text, such as references to land grabbing and intellectual property rights over agricultural technologies and inputs, especially seeds.
The group, formerly known as Alpcot Agro, said it had signed deals on the disposal of 24,800 hectares of land, mainly in central and southern Ukraine, to other farming groups for $5.6m excluding machinery, buildings and crops.
Push to lure foreign investors has led to a rise in social problems, sparking fears of a return to conflict, warns NGO
Senior Venezuelan officials announced after recent talks in Beijing that Chinese investment could cover 30 million hectares of land in the Latin American country.
A new report, ‘Who Is Benefitting?', examines the impact on local communities of large land leases held by three investors in Sierra Leone.
But human rights and environmental groups say private investment has opened Africa to exploitation through land-grabs by foreigners who are exporting crops to meet food and biofuel demands.
It's probably best to avoid the spate of companies that would love you to put your savings into farmland in Bulgaria.
As election nears, government's land policies have become a campaign issue
Since 2007, capital markets have acquired a new found interest in agricultural land as a portfolio investment. This phenomenon is examined through the theoretical lens of financialization.
Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Carlos Urrutia, has resigned under a cloud of scandal involving the illegal purchase of protected peasant land holdings by multinational companies facilitated by his law firm.
China's biggest state-owned agricultural conglomerate has bought farmland and port facilities in Western Australia and the move has sharply divided responses.
Dr. Sayaka Funada-Classen discusses the issue of “responsible research” and the ProSAVANA project in Mozambique in the context of the current post-Fukushima discussions in Japan and the work of the scholar Ruth First.
