Le gouvernement sud- africain va faire pression en faveur de la restriction de la propriété terrienne pour les étrangères en Afrique du Sud, a rapporté mercredi le quotidien Business Day à Johannesburg.
Both companies are active farmland investors, with Citadel controlling a reported 200,000 hectares in Sudan and operating Egypt's largest dairy farm.
Hedge funds are behind "land grabs" in Africa to boost their profits in the food and biofuel sectors, a US think-tank says
The Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) will invest $250 million in a joint venture with a US pension fund and financial services provider to buy farmland in the United States, Brazil and Australia.
SMNE independent commentary on report regarding political impact and recommendations.
Wealthy U.S. and European investors are accumulating large swaths of African agricultural lands in deals that have little accountability and give them greater control over food supply for the world's poor
By handing over 80,000 hectares of untilled land to a few dozen South African farmers, authorities in the Republic of Congo are confident they will greatly improve domestic agricultural expertise and reduce the country's chronic dependence on food imports
Foreign speculators are increasing price volatility and supply insecurity in the global food system, according to a series of investigative reports released today by the Oakland Institute.
Hundreds of Lamu farmers are up in arms against chiefs and district officers they claim collude with unscrupulous buyers to sell off their land.
El foro se desarrollará en las ciudades de Bogotá y Cali los días 9 y 10 de junio y contará con la participación de dos expertos internacionales, quienes presentarán el fenómeno de la extranjerización de tierras desde una perspectiva global y regional, además del caso de Colombia y la crisis alimentaria mundial.
“We have opened a new page with the Egyptian government,” Alwaleed said at a news conference with Egyptian PM Essam Sharaf. “We call on Arab and international investors to return to Egypt as soon as possible.”
Moçambique já regista "focos de conflitos" entre a população e investidores estrangeiros no acesso à terra, devido às cumplicidades entre as elites locais e o grande capital na exploração dos recursos naturais, considera o economista moçambicano João Mosca.
"The world is running out of farm land quite rapidly and farm land is going to be a very, very precious commodity in time to come. ... Australians are pretty dozy and comfortable on this issue," says Julian Cribb.
KADCO, part of Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co, now owns 10,000 feddans [more than 10,000 ha] in southern Egypt while cultivating another 15,000 feddans that it will get ownership of at a later date.
Moçambique é um dos alvos principais da "corrida à terra" por investimentos estrangeiros no continente africano, com a China e a Suécia à frente dos principais projetos, revelou hoje em Lisboa a Coligação para o Diálogo Sobre África (CoDA).
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