South Africa’s proposed laws to restrict foreigners from owning land will apply to farms and exclude residential property, Rural Development and Land Affairs Minister Gugile Nkwinti said.

Une loi en préparation à Pretoria prévoit de limiter la surface des grandes propriétés et d’en interdire l’accès aux étrangers. Le texte concerne surtout les terres agricoles.

La ONG destacó que Cartes "no se ha manifestado públicamente sobre el caso de acaparamiento" y afirmó que continúa habiendo irregularidades en el proceso judicial abierto.

Company says it will invest part of the new $275 million into its cow farms, raising its current herd of 30,000 cows to 200,000. Another part will be used to pay debts and for its palm oil projects.

A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations.

On February 11, Chai Bunthonglek, a land rights activist from Klong Sai Pattana village and member of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand was gunned down. Four locals have been slain in similar attacks since 2010.

The tighter restrictions don't apply to buyers from the US, New Zealand or Chile because of their existing free trade agreements with Australia.

Le 11 février 2015 vers 18h30, un inconnu a abattu le défenseur du droit à la terre M. Chai Bunthonglek chez lui dans le district de Chaiburi, dans la province de Surat Thani.

La commission nationale de réforme foncière a fini de dessiner le squelette de ce qui sera la future loi foncière "anti-accaparement" au Sénégal.

Two Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar and Cambodia, have declared to participate in the global rice business through foreign investors from Middle East, China, South Korea, Japan and Thailand.

Empresas volvieron a accionar judicialmente contra la expropiación de tierras a favor de la comunidad Sawhoyamaxa

"A lot of money is going into (land) speculation; this has worsened the situation," says Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

An inter-ministerial fact-finding committee from Yaounde has inspected the palm nurseries and other investment sites of the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Limited (SC-SOC) located in the South West Region of Cameroon.

The foreign ownership debate in Australia needs to evolve to – or be merged with – a broader debate about the future of the agricultural sector.

There are a number of “pending agreements” between the two countries aimed to build grain silos and lease of agriculture land in Ukraine to Qatari investors.