Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.
The TucFrut property, located 140 miles South of Santiago, consists of five different farms spread over 1,000 hectares and currently produces apples, blueberries and kiwifruit on over 660 hectares.
It concerns 5000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka being cleared for a large-scale banana plantation by an international agribusiness company, Dole.
Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".
La FAO s’apprête à sortir ces jours-ci un mode d’emploi sur la bonne gouvernance foncière. Histoire que le nouveau droit foncier de Madagascar ne soit pas défini par Daewoo Logistics. Et que les petits paysans du Sud participent enfin au débat
Soaring food prices, supply fears among import-dependent countries and rising demand for biofuels have driven up investment in agricultural land, notably in Africa.
