The Chinese Government is seeking less scrutiny of its Australian farm raids. Sources say the Chinese are pushing the issue as part of a planned free trade agreement with Australia.
Trilogy Capital is involved in a large scale agriculture project in Ethiopia with US-based Morrell Agro Industries.
Herakles Farms plans to clear and replace 300 square miles of virgin rainforest with mono-culture trees to establish an oil palm plantation, with major impacts on 52,000 Indigenous peoples in 88 villages who depend on the forest.
La Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres, dans une lettre ouverte en date du 18 mai 2012, a dénoncé la dépossession de paysans maliens de leurs terres agricoles à Sanamadougou.
Au Sénégal, où le phénomène d’accaparement des terres touche 670. 000 ha, «il est plus qu’urgent d’interpeler les nouvelles autorités pour qu’elles restituent les terres aux ayant droits», selon la coordonnatrice d’Enda-Pronat, Mariam Sow
GIGA-Forum zu "Landraub oder Agrarinvestitionen - Großflächige Agrarprojekte in Entwicklungsländern" am 23. Mai 2012 in Hamburg
Présentation du Collectif pour la défense des terres de Fanaye au "Forum de réflexion et de partage sur la problématique et les enjeux d’une politique foncière, levier d’un développement rural durable", Dakar, le 29 Mai 2012
Since 2009, Whitestone (SL) Limited has managed to obtain 13 leasehold titles covering a staggering 1.34 million acres of land in the Bombali and Koinadugu Districts of Northern Sierra Leone for large-scale agricultural development.
RIO+20
È quindi vero che l’approvazione delle direttive costituisce solo il primo passo di un lungo percorso ad ostacoli volto ad arginare l’accaparramento delle terre, ma essa rappresenta nondimeno un punto di partenza significativo.
L'Évêque de Saint-Louis, Mgr Ernest Sambou, a critiqué l’accaparement des terres par les investisseurs internationaux, avec la complicité de certains dirigeants du continent, lors du 124e pèlerinage marial annuel de Popenguine.
BTG Pactual Cesar Campos FGV parceria projetos Roberto Rodrigues Tropical Belt
The Singapore-based trading house paid R$255m ($129m) to acquire the Usina Açucareira Passos (UAP) mill, in which it pledged to invest a further $111.5m in the next five years to boost both cane growing and producing capacity.
The agricultural arm of the $US487 billion Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association has snapped up six farming properties from listed company PrimeAg Australia in a deal worth $36.7 million.
Foreign investors have shown real interest towards Bulgarian agriculture for the past 2-3 years. The trend has changed a bit and now different Arab countries and China are the interested ones, instead of Italy, France, etc.
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