Almarai, which already owns land in Arizona, said the purchase was part of efforts to secure high-quality hay from outside Saudi Arabia, in line with Saudi government policy.
A petition denouncing the unjust imprisonment of three Ethiopian human rights defenders is being presented this week to the Ethiopian government as well as its financial backers.
US real estate company Property Connections of Bay City says it has sold over $100 million worth of farmland in Texas in the last two years to Chinese buyers.
AAF's $1.8 million purchase of convertible debentures could take the development bank-backed fund's ownership of DR Congo's biggest oil palm plantation company to 47%.
"There is no limit to the scale we can achieve" says Farmland Partners CEO, as his company plans to branch out from US into Australia and New Zealand.
One Thousand & One Voices (1K1V) — a US-based private capital fund backed by some influential family investors — is on the hunt for opportunities in the sub-Saharan Africa agricultural sector.
L'acharnement est considéré comme une tentative de les faire taire afin qu'ils arrêtent leur travail légitime de plaidoyer contre l'accaparement des terres et autres violations des droits humains entraînées par la société Feronia.
Intelligence agency interrogates people it suspects of leading protests against Canadian oil palm company, Feronia, owned by European and US governments.
An American investment giant that manages multi-billion-dollar pension funds in the United States, Canada, and Sweden faces allegations that it has circumvented Brazilian laws on foreign acquisition of farmland
A U.S. investment firm that manages U.S., Canadian and Swedish pension funds came under pressure on Tuesday to give locations of its land investments in Brazil as coalition of campaign groups voiced concerns about the impact on local farmers.
Le groupe financier américain a accumulé de nouvelles terres agricoles sur de vastes espaces, malgré la tentative du gouvernement brésilien en 2010 d’interdire réellement ce genre de transactions à grande échelle aux investisseurs étrangers.
Une société new-yorkaise chargée de la gestion de l'épargne-retraite des travailleurs en Suède, aux États-Unis et au Canada se soustrait aux lois brésiliennes sur les investissements étrangers pour acquérir des terres agricoles
