US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.
Détenu à parts égales par le patron de presse Robert Lafont (Lafont presse, plus connu pour son mensuel Entreprendre) et par Gilles Bouchier, le fonds français Talleyrand va mettre un pied dans l'agriculture tunisienne
Dubai-based AWGAL Investments is in advanced talks with farmers in Texas to invest in cattle farms to produce Halal-certified US beef for the GCC and MENA region.
Shanghai Zhongfu s'est vue attribuer un contrat qui va lui permettre, dans le cadre d'un bail de 50 ans, d'exploiter 15 200 hectares de riches terres agricoles, irriguées par la rivière Ord.
L’organisation sous-régionale y a lancé un projet d’aménagement dont l’objectif est d’en faire le grenier à riz de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.
Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..
Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.
A new study puts "land-grab" deals into the context of agricultural investments more generally.
Carlyle is part of a small group of investors that will inject $210 million into Export Trading Group, a Tanzania-based agricultural company that controls at least 60,000 hectares of farmland in Africa.
La Coop fédérée est toutefois préoccupée par le phénomène et réclame la mise sur pied d'un registre sur les transactions dans le milieu agricole,
Los especialistas precisaron que "el antiguo latifundio ha dado paso a grandes empresas capitalistas insertas en los circuitos del comercio internacional"