Georgia

Des "tables par pays" ont été créés afin de développer la production agricole dans 12 pays "frères"

A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.

Parliamentary Chairman announces that the Cabinet of Ministers and the parliamentary majority struck a deal to introduce a provision in the constitution prohibiting agricultural land sales to foreign citizens, citing “strategic interests”

Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home

A new bill to make it harder for foreigners to buy farmland is part of the current ruling coalition’s move away from the open-door investment policy of the last government.

A year after prohibiting foreigners from purchasing lands, Georgian officials have now announced that rights to own agricultural lands might return to foreigners under certain conditions.

Agriculture Minister Otar Danelia says Georgia is prepared to support the implementation of Chinese investments in Georgian agriculture.

Georgian government signs MOU with Chinese counterparts for $20-25 million investments in the agricultural sector in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.

Le gouvernement a soulevé un tollé en décidant de vendre 130 000 hectares de ses terres agricoles à des étrangers. Tour d'horizon des réactions dans la presse géorgienne.

Large scale privatization of state-owned agricultural lands in Georgia has the potential to trigger violence and social unrest of far graver consequences for investment – foreign and domestic – into the national economy than the notorious moratorium.

A new law suspending sale of agriculture land to foreigners till end of 2014 in Georgia will be challenged by Transparency International.

In what seems like a drastic reversal of policy, Georgia on July 19 placed a ban on selling agricultural land to foreign nationals.