Les Chinois ne se contentent plus d'acheter les produits alimentaires australiens dont ils raffolent : des investisseurs chinois acquièrent des fermes, dont les plus grandes et les plus anciennes de l'île continent.
"We believe this was a tactic to get us into prison so that we cannot raise our voice on the unacceptable land deals in Malen Chiefdom."
- Green Scenery
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10 Mar 2016
Joseph Rahall interviews Hon. Shiaka Sama, who was released from prison on 24 February 2016 while 5 other activists are still behind bars
- Green Scenery
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10 Mar 2016
Evalué à plus de 100 milliards de francs CFA, ce partenariat est destiné au financement de plusieurs projets agricoles, comme l’hévéaculture et la culture du palmier à huile et autres projets industriels.
The World Bank's $70 million in new financing will be used to link smallholder farmers to agribusinesses in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Hassad Australia, the $469 million agricultural land company owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has delivered a $3.46 million loss and is yet to make a profit since beginning in Australia in 2010.
While we welcome the Financial Times' mention of our report on TIAA’s investments in Brazil, we are disappointed that the article quotes from an email by TIAA dismissing the allegations in our report as “inaccurate and without merit” without providing grounds for such claims.
- Financial Times
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09 Mar 2016
The $US866 billion financial services giant TIAA expects there will be at least $US100 billion invested in timberland operations and agriculture across the world in the next 10 to 20 years
Concerns over competing countries scrambling for resources such as farmland have decreased recently due to lower commodity and food prices, a World Bank official said.
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
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09 Mar 2016
The agribusiness cluster of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) is targeting a total of 100,000 hectares for expansion of hybrid rice production area in the sub-economic region.
An Australian investment company has joined forces with a leading Chinese bidder for the iconic Kidman pastoral empire.
A new Open Access Special Issue in World Development based on our work on the changing role of China and Brazil in Africa’s agriculture is now available