A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agriculture company, Cargill, has injected almost $40 million into a local company which buys Australian rural property.
A controversial plan approved by Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture to lease 6,000 hectares of land to China for development has been met with suspicion by some members of the country’s political opposition
Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest plantation operator, with a landbank of 880,000 ha, aims to file documents this week for the nation’s biggest initial share sale in more than a year
The growing land conflict and land grab in Africa and Uganda in particular is a major challenge not only to livelihoods of the poor peasant rural farmers, but is also causing environmental genocide.
The amount of productive farmland being taken out of New Zealand hands each year has dropped off sharply in the past decade, figures show. But those opposed to overseas ownership of land say the best land has already been cherry-picked by foreign buyers who push prices up.
A China está mudando seu modelo de investimentos na agricultura da América do Sul. Diante das restrições a estrangeiros para a aquisições de terras no Brasil e na Argentina, os chineses passaram a privilegiar aportes em infraestrutura em troca do direito exclusivo de comprar a colheita.
Apunta a legislar sobre venta del bien a gobiernos
Iowa State University is no longer an adviser on an agricultural project in Tanzania led by Iowa-based AgriSol Energy.
El acaparamiento y extranjerización de tierras es un fenómeno que se intensifica en América Latina y el Caribe y agudiza las desigualdades, la exclusión y los conflictos sociales con implicaciones políticas.
A la fecha, existen diversos proyectos de ley para frenar el acaparamiento de tierras en el país, el año 2010 dos de estos fueron archivados y desde el año 2011, se viene dando un nuevo intento por frenar esta situación.
La demanda también señala que las normas del PND violan la seguridad alimentaria, pues permiten que los extranjeros se apropien de grandes cantidades de tierras para abastecer el mercado internacional.
‘S’il y a eu deux morts à Fanaye, c’est parce qu’il n’y a pas eu de transparence dans l’allocation de ces terres-là’, a déclaré Amadou Kanouté, lors de la clôture de l’atelier international de 2 jours, organisé à Dakar, sur la transparence dans les attributions et les investissements dans les ressources foncières.
Após terem sido analisados vários países, casos da Colômbia, Paraguai e Uruguai, Rússia, Ucrânia e também outros países africanos, a administração da SLC Agrícola decidiu-se por Moçambique por haver maior estabilidade política e incentivos por parte do governo.
After analysing Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, Russia, the Ukraine and some other African countries, the board of SLC Agrícola settled on Mozambique because of its greater political stability and incentives offered by the government.
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in the domain of human rights, it is silent on the issue of land grabs. This is a gap that the AU needs to plug.
