The governor received a delegation of Chinese investors from Wuhan Province interested in alfalfa farming and livestock development who had visited parts of Jigawa, particularly Hadejia, to inspect available land, existing pilot projects, and private farms in operation.
A delegation from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce met with the Sri Lanka’s Minister of Agriculture to discuss the acquisition of "currently unused land to develop large-scale dairy farms and export-oriented agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits.”
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers, Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by UK billionaire Guy Hands, has acquired a 711,638-hectare sheep station in Western Australia for $35 million amid the company’s rapid ramp-up into the sector.
The company — backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ — farms about 250,000 acres globally. It will focus on farming and the sale of commodities it produces, its press office said
Accaparement de terres, travailleurs exploités et combat des populations locales... Al Jazeera fait le point.
Le Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee a tenu son 4ᵉ Congrès fédéral à Lahore, élisant une nouvelle direction et annonçant une mobilisation nationale contre l’agriculture industrielle, l’accaparement des terres et la crise agraire croissante.
Coalition of civil society organizations and victims of Indonesia National Strategic Project, members of Solidaritas Merauke are strongly condemn the state from issuing regulations and decisions on the changes in the allocation of forest areas and for granting of Right to Cultivation and Right to Build to PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara covering 328,000 hectares of customary land in South Papua.
Since foreign land ownership is legally restricted in the country, the idea is that foreign investors can participate as minority shareholders in agribusiness investment funds (Fiagros) and partner with Brazilian landowners.
Carbon credits are derived from Kijani Forestry’s Smallholder Farmer Forestry Project in northern Uganda, which establishes woodlots on degraded land, with roughly 30 million trees planted to date in collaboration with local growers.
It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based company developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, whose chairman is a member of Dubai’s royal family.
Christopher Robinson, a local elected official who already controls roughly one million acres of land, acquired the 916,000-acre Pathfinder Ranches just four years after buying the neighboring 86,000-acre Stone Ranch.
O Ministério da Agricultura do Brasil pretende apresentar em fevereiro a fundos soberanos árabes uma proposta de investimento em terras no Brasil para apoiar a conversão de pastagens para áreas agrícolas. Como a propriedade de terras por estrangeiros é limitada no Brasil, a ideia é que os investidores estrangeiros possam entrar como cotistas minoritários de fundos de investimento no agronegócio (Fiagros) e se associar a proprietários brasileiros.