For the past 13 years, 47-year-old farmer Saturday Wilson has been embroiled in a battle with a foreign oil palm plantation company over his farmland. It has placed him behind bars three times, but he still owns the land.
Conversations with farmers in the Skagit Valley inspired a Democratic state legislator to propose to bar foreign entities from buying Washington State croplands.
The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.
L’université de l'Etat du Michigan va travailler avec African Agriculture Inc pour former les agriculteurs et les étudiants de Boghé dans le cadre d'un projet qui portera sur 500 000 ha
Michigan State University has signed a letter of intent with African Agriculture Inc. to explore training, research and technology transfer opportunities with farmers and students in Mauritania, West Africa.
The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers of Nyamuntende Village in Kiryandongo district for allegedly threatening violence against land grabbers’ laborers is set to begin tomorrow.
Philippines' Board of Investments (BOI) announced it would invite global investors in agriculture and food production sectors to invest in Bukidnon’s 40-hectare Industrial zone.
Une proposition de loi vise à interdire dans cet État du sud des Etats-Unis l'achat de terres par tout citoyen chinois, mais aussi russe, iranien ou nord-coréen.
Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.
La situation sécuritaire se dégrade par moment à Basoko, en Rep. Dém. du Congo, après l'incendie provoqué dans le petit marché du port de Lokutu. Selon des témoignages locaux, la société PHC a utilisé un groupe de jeunes de Bandu pour détruire le marché.
QI Hang Mubarak is building a large greenhouse complex on 50 hectares and a 100 hectare sunflower farm in the Mubarek district of the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan.
Marubeni is partnering with the Philippines government and a construction company owned by the billionaire Consunji family to develop a 10,000 ha tree plantation project in Negros Occidental that it says will produce up to 100,000 tons of carbon credits every year.
Le coordinateur de l’association AGTER était notre invité ce matin. On a discuté de la concentration de l’activité agricole, de ses conséquences, et de moyens de lutter contre ce phénomène.
La pelea por el libre acceso al Lago Escondido en las tierras de propiedad del magnate británico Joe Lewis y la nueva embestida de empresarios privados ligados al principado qatarí que intentan alambrar las nacientes del Arroyo La Horqueta y del Río Chubut que alimentan a las poblaciones de Chubut y Río Negro plantean la pregunta sobre la concentración y extranjerización de la tierra y los bienes comunes en Argentina.
El caso de Benetton en Argentina es extraordinario —los chubutenses reconocen que la empresa autogobierna las localidades donde opera, en particular El Maitén— pero es un ejemplo de un modelo de concentración de tierras que persiste en la provincia
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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