Now the government of President Santos seems to be pressing for reforms to the law that would enable further concentration of land in Colombia, even though this would be incoherent with the government’s own commitments to date in the peace talks.
The primary aim of this book is to advance the understanding of the regulatory conditions under which large-scale farmland investments can contribute to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Five Japanese nongovernmental organizations have called for a review of a Japanese government-backed large-scale farm development project in Mozambique.
Swedish, Norwegian and Dutch investors in Mozambique land grab: powerful new documentary gives a compelling visual portrait of how investment by private financial players can undermine food security and human rights in developing countries.
The second Afro-Arab Ministerial Meeting on Agricultural Development and Food Security opened in Riyadh with participants agreeing to strengthen Afro-Arab cooperation towards promoting ''sustainable and sensible investment in agriculture and food security''.
Demand for sugar is triggering land conflicts, says Oxfam, as it calls on Coca-Cola and other major firms to have zero tolerance
Acting on a letter sent by 27 organisations, the UN Commission on the Elimination on Racial Discrimination wrote to Indonesia’s Ambassador, raising concerns about the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
KTG Agrar says it has taken a 17.5% stake in Clemens Tönnies' Sojuz Group, another German-owned company farming in Russia on over 45,000 hectares.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott throws his support behind Jakarta’s plans to invest in Australian cattle farms to help end a trade dispute that has devastated his country’s cattle industry and boosted beef prices in Indonesia.
Activists have called for the exclusion of Cambodian sugar from duty-free treatment in Europe, saying that it triggers corporate land grabs.
Activists say the Cambodian government’s freewheeling issuance of land concessions has denuded large swaths of forests, robbed rural communities of their livelihoods and vitality, and could undercut the country’s fragile developmen
A Chinese conglomerate has hit back at critics of its WA farming operations and vowed to press on with plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in an integrated supply chain from Albany to China.