Charoen Pokphand Group plans to invest $550 million within the next three years to develop maize and rice farms, rice mills and livestock processing plants.

«Non à une seconde Fanaye à Wassadou». Les populations de Wassadou et environs, au Sénégal, ont investi l’avenue Léopold Sédar Senghor pour protester contre la mise en œuvre d’un projet agro industriel sur 3000 ha.

A senior government official in Serenje has urged the Zambia Development Agency to quicken the process of facilitating investment inflow in the 155,000-hectare Nansanga farm block in Central Province.

For years, Romania has been a playground for foreign investors. Drawn by the vast amounts of available land, along with prices lower than in the rest of Europe, more than 700 000 hectares of land are now owned by foreign investors.

The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation.

In the last five years, land concessions totaling tens of thousands of hectares have been granted to private companies for industrial sugarcane production in Cambodia.

Drought conditions in much of the US this year could turn into a boon, rather than a bust, for institutional investors in farmland, timber and agricultural stocks.

Señaló que a través de la auditoría podrá verificarse la existencia de “empresarios ilegales, palos blancos, o mal manejo en las tierras comunitarias de origen”.

O presidente da Associação Brasileira de Reforma Agrária (Abra), Gerson Teixeira explica que, o texto do Código associado à liberação desregrada de venda de terra para estrangeiro traduz o momento hegemônico do agronegócio

Le Comité inter-parlementaire de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine a demandé aux Etats de mettre à la disposition de la Commission de l'UEMOA l'équivalent de 12.000 ha de terre à des fins agro-sylvo-pastorales et halieutiques.

O novo presidente do Paraguai, Federico Franco, decidiu "deixar sem efeito" uma auditoria judicial ordenada pelo governo anterior, do destituído Fernando Lugo.

Le président Macky Sall a invité son gouvernement à se prêter à un arrangement "conforme aux intérêts du Sénégal" avec la société sénégalo-italienne Sen-Ethanol, qui envisageait de produire du biocarburant avant le retrait de son projet à Fanaye

Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.

Iowa Regent Bruce Rastetter has defended working with Iowa State Univ. to pursue a large-scale land development in Africa and blamed growing criticism over his involvement on misinformation and public relations mistakes.

Olam said it would borrow the money from the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC) and a consortium of other lenders