The richest man in the Middle East had a grand vision for turning a swath of land in southern Egypt into an agricultural marvel. Now that land has become part of a political struggle, in the wake of the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Philippine communist rebels on Tuesday accused a Japanese subsidiary of grabbing lands from local farmers in Mindanao.
En attendant la mise en place d'un code de conduite au niveau de la CEDEAO, chaque pays devra déterminer les règles régissant de tels investissements.
Chinese group Chongqing Grain is due to launch an agri-industrial project expected to cost 4 billion reals (US$2.4 billion) in the state of Bahia, Brazil, the state’s secretary for Agriculture said.
Participants find that land grabbing is occurring at a scale and speed as never before, resulting in widespread displacement and dispossession of local communities.
Australia is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to foreign companies buying important agricultural land and greater scrutiny is needed, farmers say.
Pengxin International of Shanghai, which already has farmland holdings in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Cambodia, has offered to buy the 16 North Island Crafar farm properties in New Zealand
It is shameful that the Ethiopian Ambassador to the UK would claim that the areas targeted for foreign investment have no adequate social and economic infrastructures such as education, health facilities and roads.
A cada dia que passa, o mundo inteiro precisa consumir toneladas de recursos naturais e grãos. Assim, se torna cada vez mais grave a falta de alimentos, e é mais clara a urgência que muitos países demonstram em adotar, em larga escala, o biocombustível, como fonte alternativa importante em suas matrizes energéticas – afirmou.
Communities in Edo State, Nigeria at odds over projects to bring foreign investors in to carry out development on large expanses of farmland.
Egypt's public prosecutors' office said on Sunday it had frozen land in southern Egypt controlled by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal because the original sale of the land violated the law.
En el Uruguay, 12 empresas extranjeras poseen más de un millón de hectáreas, hecho que no es muy diferente de lo que acontece en Entre Ríos y en todo el llamado “Tercer Mundo” desde que la “revolución verde” promovida por el las grandes corporaciones nos viene reduciendo cada vez más al monocultivo.