SL Agritech Corp plans to establish a 2,000-3,000 hectare commercial rice plantation in Iloilo this year, a top company official said yesterday, in what could involve a joint venture with Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd.
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Reading between the lines, the Durban BRICS resolutions will support favoured corporations' extraction and land-grab strategies and confirm the financing of both African land-grabbing and the extension of neo-colonial infrastructure through a new 'BRICS Bank'
Le projet de loi, qui est discuté à l'assemblée législative de Reykjavik, vise à empêcher les personnes qui ne sont pas citoyens de l'Islande d'acheter des propriétés qui incluent des droits d'eau ou de pêche.
High-speed conversion and land-grabbing has intensified pressure on already threatened species and on the marginalised rural communities that depend on the grassland ecosystem.
Action Aid International Sierra Leone (AAISL) and its partners have successfully ended a four day strategic conference and campaign planning meeting on ‘Land-Grabbing’ in Freetown.
UAE Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdallah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan says his country plans to invest in food production in Angola.
Bank's accountability panel says complaints by Ethiopians of forced evictions in Gambella should be looked into.
Land grabs are a “bad idea” because they reduce trade volume in agricultural commodity markets, said Ruth Rawling, Cargill Inc.’s vice-president of corporate affairs for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
All this talk about people being displaced for the purpose of land lease is unfounded at best and even deliberately contrived at worst, says Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Ethiopia in New Delhi
The new rules allow foreigners to own up to 80% of agriculture ventures, triggering fears of a potential land grabbing epidemic
In November, an investment unit of the big Swiss bank UBS bought 9,800 acres of Wisconsin farmland for $68 million
