In June 2018, Guyana’s Ministry of Agriculture unveiled an agreement with the Brazilian Agricultural Machinery and Research Institute that gives a green light to Brazilian investors lobbying for large tracts of lands in the Rupununi savannahs.
FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability
After six years and an investment of over $1.3B, the Santa Fe mega farm in Region 9, owned by Barbadian business mogul Sir Kyffin Simpson, is waiting on government’s go ahead for an additional 20,000 acres of land for cattle rearing.
Already, investors in Brazil, Guyana's neighbour to the south and south west, have indicated their willingness to invest in the intermediate and Rupununi savannahs.
Spinoff of US-based emerging market project developer CARANA Corp plans to eventually operate plant and fish farms on 6,000 acres.
A group of potential investors from Trinidad and Tobago were in Guyana last week to scout local lands suitable for large-scale farming initiatives, as part of an MOU between the two countries signed last year.
Guyana's President Donald Ramotar says thet "the offer is still on the table" to all CARICOM countries to take advantage of Guyana's bountiful agricultural resources.
The Ajeenkya D Y Patil Group of India has signed an MoU with the Government of Guyana for 65,000 ha in the Canje Basin, to be used for agriculture-related projects.
Guyana investment agency is working with several investors who have interest in large projects for soybean, livestock, cattle and rice covering 70,000 acres in Pirara, Region 9.
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En Amérique latine, comme partout ailleurs dans le monde, les communautés subissent actuellement une nouvelle forme d’invasion de leur territoire.
Inversionistas extranjeros han acaparado en pocos años millones de hectáreas de tierras de cultivo en América Latina para producir cultivos alimentarios o agrocombustibles y exportarlos. Gran parte del dinero proviene de fondos de pensión, bancos, grupos de inversión privada de Europa y Estados Unidos, o de individuos acaudalados como George Soros, y fluye a través de mecanismos de inversión en tierras de cultivo puestos a operar mediante compañías extranjeras y locales.
Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories
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