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Durante un bien documentado debate y con sólidas pruebas, el senador Jorge Enrique Robledo demostró cómo algunas empresas con la complicidad de poderosos bufetes de abogados se han apropiado ilegalmente de baldíos.

Une nouvelle étude démontre que le projet de plantation de palmiers à huile d'Herakles Farm pourrait détruire l'habitat unique d'espèces menacées tels que les chimpanzés du Nigeria-Cameroun et le Drill.

Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.

Chinese meat firms are looking abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors.

Black River Asset Management, owned by food giant Cargill, is targeting $400m for its 2nd ag-focused investment fund. So far, the bulk of the financing has come from a US teachers' pension fund.

Africa is the main target for “land grabs” by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released June 10.

Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a US business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

Ils ont saisi le gouvernement américain pour un recours afin qu’une enquête urgente et approfondie soit ouverte sur les allégations de corruption faites autour des opérations de la société SGSOC, filiale de la firme américaine Herakles Farms

China is headed to spend a record this year on food assets and farms after a $32.7 billion splurge in the past five years and just $4.2 billion in the prior half-decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Chinese company Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of US pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods.

US investors are increasingly looking to purchase farmland with their retirement funds to take advantage of the tax benefits of a Self-Directed IRA LLC

"Cela envoie un message fort selon lequel les pays africains sont ouverts aux affaires, mais qu’ils ne sont pas ouverts au vol", a indiqué à IPS, Anuradha Mittal, directrice exécutive de 'Oakland Institute'.