Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan warns that sovereign wealth funds need to be watched because some were "already acquiring other sovereigns' wealth to protect their own food security tasks".
A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.
Study reveals that over 50 million hectares are currently assigned in land deals or under negotiation in 27 African host countries – an area equivalent to France.
Joint-venture farms that have China's financial and technical support are the future of China-Africa agriculture cooperation says China State Farms Agribusiness Corporation manager.
With the surge of corporate farms in Argentina and Brazil over the past two to three years, I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the biggest groups with a short description of each.
L’ennui, reconnaît la Banque mondiale, c’est que ces investissements, loin d’être une aubaine pour le continent noir, finissent par nuire à des populations déjà pauvres et à des économies précaires.
