Entities such as USAID, the World Bank, and major U.S. universities are often the architects behind these land deals, which promise benefits for Africans but can often deliver food insecurity and displacement.
A Companhia Albertina formalizou o arrendamento de 8.000 hectares de cana-de-açúcar pela LDC-SEV -- braço sucroalcooleiro da francesa Louis Dreyfus Commodities.
Half of Gippsland's farmland could be foreign owned in a decade if current interest in the region continues on the same trajectory, two industry leaders have predicted.
The £9bn Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.
Los ministros de Agricultura y Justicia se reunieron para ultimar detalles del decreto que otorgará plena vigencia a la noma aprobada en diciembre de 2011
Documento del Centro Nelson Mandela sostiene que el proyecto de entendimiento de Chaco con la empresa saudí Al-Khora yef, constituye "una auténtica situación de emergencia por las locuras de un gobierno que está de paso y que acosa el ambiente".
Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.
Los venezolanos no podemos ni debemos ser ajenos ni cerrar los ojos, y menos en una etapa en la cual predomina el hermetismo oficial en las negociaciones con otros países
Thousands of residents of Amuru District community, in Uganda, could soon lose their land after Gulu High Court ruled that over 40,000 hectares be given to Madhvani Group of companies to grow sugarcane.
A few hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between Nigeria's Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.
The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.
Het totale areaal landbouwgrond dat van oorsprong Nederlandse land- en tuinbouwbedrijven in de afgelopen decennia in gebruik hebben genomen in het buitenland is ongeveer 500.000 hectare, dat is ongeveer gelijk aan 25% van het totale landbouwareaal in Nederland.
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.
On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.
China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.
