The North Dakota Attorney General has approved the sale and continued farming of about 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland to a trust reportedly connected to billionaire Bill Gates.
So far, the government has made available 5,000 hectares of land at Chimwamkango estate for value crops and 5,000 hectares of land at Dwambazi estate in Nkhotakota for cattle raising
Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers.
A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.
A regional civil society group "Friends of the Earth Africa" has launched a campaign intended to urge ECOWAS to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations.
A new law that prohibits foreign businesses from buying and owning state farmland places Indiana among the states that have enacted such statutes to ensure Americans have enough to eat.
A company associated with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates purchased $13.5 million worth of North Dakota farmland. Now the state's attorney general wants to make sure that sale followed the state's corporate farming law.
Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.
Community and civil society representatives from Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast are in Brussels to denounce land grabbing by a Belgian rubber and palm oil company.
Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian farming group that has developed by drawing money from the capital market and buying farms in the country’s southern region, aims to raise EUR 10.7 mln in its biggest capital increase to date.
Friends of the Earth Africa called on the ECOWAS Parliament to expedite action against some multinational agro-commodity coorporations for land grabbing.