Con una ganadería que creció, en los últimos 30 años casi 500.000 cabezas bovinas anuales, suelos ricos en fósforo y tierras a valores que no se consiguen, ganaderos e inversores uruguayos apuestan a producir carne en Paraguay.
Las empresas, de propiedad brasileña, River Plate S.A. y BBC S.A., cayeron en una intervención durante una operación secreta llevada a cabo por las autoridades del país y por las autoridades indígenas en la región del Chaco (norte de Paraguay).
Las tierras en Brasil y Argentina están entre los activos más preciados en el nuevo mercado global de terrenos agrícolas que surgió de la mano con el alza en los precios de materias primas.
Private equity and fund managers name South America a top place to buy, lease and manage agricultural lands for profit.
Este documental analiza la tenencia de la tierra en manos extranjeras en el Paraguay y su impacto en las poblaciones campesinas e indígenas ubicadas en dichas áreas, quienes son testigos y víctimas de la profunda desigualdad y explotación que genera la expansión global del sistema capitalista.
"A large [Indian] agri-export company is already in advanced stages of discussions with the Paraguayan government and may announce its foray into the country shortly” says Paraguay’s ambassador in New Delhi,
The Lumix AgroDirect Fund, which has been incubated since June 2008, invests in the production of soft commodities and in commodity trade finance in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
Local provincial governments are working hard to develop farmland in other countries -- Russia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Paraguay, Uruguay -- because it’s cheaper than relying on imports
Buenos Aires-based Cresud plans to acquire more land to add to the 484,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) it owns and the 90,410 hectares it leases in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Volatility in commodity markets tends to boost consolidation in the agriculture sector as firms require more capital and improved risk management, the executive officer of French giant Louis Dreyfus said Tuesday. One of the company's focus now is on farmland.
