Deregulation and financialisation, carbon offset and industrialised food systems are all factors that threaten equitable land access for farmers, says Nettie Wiebe, a founding member of La Via Campesina from Canada
4 megaproyectos de infraestructura para irrigación pretende incorporar más de 236,000 hectáreas a la frontera agrícola para exportación de Perú. Un de los proyectos de irrigación cuenta con un contrato con Canadá con una inversión aproximada de 750 millones de dólares.
Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Formosa y Salta desmontaron 60.000 hectáreas de bosques nativos en el primer semestre, según informe de Greenpeace, reemplazos principalmente por cambios de normativas en las provincias al favor del avance del agronegocio.
With scarce arable land and water resources, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are expanding their agricultural diplomacy to improve food access and vying for agricultural cooperation with Africa
Two prominent union leaders who were not present when the Salala Rubber Corporation buildings were set on fire have been jailed as retaliation for their efforts to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for the plantation’s contract workers.
MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re Group, acquired its first apple orchard in New Zealand on behalf of a client pursuing a New Zealand growth strategy in agriculture.
Selu Africa Limited, which is at the final stages of acquiring a lease, will put in an initial 80 million US Dollars to open up 20,000 acres of land for irrigation over a three-year period
Farmers cried out for help on Tuesday, July 23, as a P2-billion palm oil plantation project threatened to displace them and their families in three villages in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
China's Asia Tobacco Industry Group says it will will build a crop oil processing plant, a cattle farm, a plant to produce feed for cattle and various aquatic species, and a fertiliser processing plant, as well as supporting farmers to cultivate bananas and sugarcane.
The project aims to develop an integrated food security systems that will combine food production, logistics and market hubs spanning 150,000 hectares across the country
Several farmers in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, have lost land or grazing rights to a huge commercial citrus farming project
Le groupe français Bolloré est accusé depuis des années de ne pas exercer son devoir de surveillance en ce qui concerne les violations des droits humains autour des plantations de caoutchouc et de palmiers à huile en Afrique et en Asie. En raison d’un manque de volonté de dialogue à ce sujet, l’ASIR a décidé de recommander l’exclusion de l’entreprise.
