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Le gouvernement australien vient de rendre public son registre des exploitations agricoles. Surprise : ce ne sont pas des groupes chinois qui possèdent le plus de terres, mais des investisseurs britanniques et américains.

Milltrust has a 10 year, billion dollar program to establish farms in the southern hemisphere to produce rice, wheat, corn and barley, as well as new cash crops that will provide feedstock for animals.

The deal will hand the UK government's development agency a 17.5% stake in Zambeef, which is pursuing Zambia's first oil palm plantation on over 20,000 ha.

AgDevCo’s investment of $3.9m will be used to establish irrigation (250ha) and power.

Investors could find farmland more appealing in the face of wider economic uncertainty.

Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.

The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.

Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.

Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.

Indigenous and civil society leaders from Indonesia, Peru, Colombia and Liberia gathered in London Wednesday to urge a boycott of firms that commit human rights violations and land seizures to cultivate palm oil.

The recent swell of enthusiasm for studying large-scale land acquisitions reveals something deeper about how researchers, journalists, and social activists continue to perceive societies south of the Sahara.

Russia’s geopolitical conflicts, anemic oil prices and weakened ruble are working out rather well for the country’s biggest publicly traded farming company, which trades on the London Stock Exchange.