Recent reports reveal that the regional governments of Loreto and Ucayali, in the eastern part of the country, have sold millions of hectares of virgin forests as rural land for African oil palm cultivation.
UK-based project developer DGC Asset Management is to launch a new subsidiary, Vaccinium (UK) Limited, which will invest in farms and estates in the US, Latin America and Europe.
Indonesia's outgoing president is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent.
FIAN Belgium, en partenariat avec la FUGEA, le MAP, Terre-en-vue et Terre de Liens, publie une étude qui s’intéresse à la pression foncière exercée actuellement en Europe qui menace l’avenir de notre agriculture.
El término ‛acaparamiento de océanos’ pretende arrojar nueva luz sobre una serie de importantes procesos y dinámicas que están afectando negativamente a las personas y comunidades cuya forma de vida, identidad cultural y medios de vida dependen de su participación en la pesca en pequeña escala.
Curuguaty es el centro de la campaña contra el acaparamiento de tierra que pretende contar al mundo la historia de Paraguay a través de un caso paradigmático de lucha campesina.
The commercial farm currently has 3,000 hectares under cultivation and another 3,000 hectares will be developed in 2015, while 3,000 farmers are involved in its outgrower programme.
A new 800 ha banana plantation is planned in Dehaene in the South region by a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Fruitière.
500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.
German airline Lufthansa in talks with several investment firms about taking on management of a private equity fund that will invest into farmland in Cameroon and Eastern Europe to grow oil crops.
Taking aim at one of the less-traveled areas of private equity, Agriculture Capital Management is targeting $250 million for a debut fund called ACM Permanent Crops.
The ProSavana agriculture programme is causing environmental degradation and the near extinction of indigenous communities in the savannah regions of northern Mozambique.
En Villa Ygatimi, Canindejú, realizaron desmontes de área boscosa nativa por medio de la quema.
Au Mali, une grande marche était prévue mardi pour protester contre l’accaparement des terres mais au dernier moment, les autorités ont décidé de l’interdire. RFI était sur place.
Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.
