The scheme, which Italian officials called their country's largest agricultural investment in the southern Mediterranean, covers 36,000 hectares in Algeria's Timimoune province
Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in importing 200,000 tonnes of red meat and one million tonnes of soybeans annually from Nigeria, following meetings with the country's agribusiness entrepreneurs.
In the face of intensifying environmental and human rights violations, advocacy groups like Friends of the Earth are calling on the Brazilian and US governments to reign in land speculation and halt the expansion of soy plantations in the Cerrado.
According to Gambia's Lands Minister Hamat Bah, the CEO of Jah Oil Company, Hamidou Jah, would be given a minimum of 25 years leasehold to use the Bayaba Rice field but 15 per cent of the developed land would be devoted to the local community.
When the industrial agriculture investor Agilis Partners targeted the lands of Kiryandongo for its investments, residents never knew that the company would empoly several tactics to force them out. One of them was sexual violence.
The Metro Pacific Agro Ventures Inc. (MPAV) led by business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan is eyeing to set up a 500-hectare corn plantation in Northern Samar province, Philippines
Alarko signed a contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan to invest $150 million in the country’s agro-industrial sector for the first stage of a project comprising the construction of greenhouses, spanning 200 hectares
Malaysia's MEGA First Corp Bhd has 1,830ha of coconut trees and 730ha of macadamia trees planted in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, where it has slightly more than 6,000ha of concession land.
Chorng indigenous community, who live around Cardamom Mountain National Park in Koh Kong province, Cambodia, experienced difficulties obtaining forest products or practicing rotational farming near their village as they have been informed that those areas are in the REDD+ zone, although there was no clear boundary.
IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has acquired S.P.O. Zentrum, a Sicily-based producer of fruits and vegetables with 450 ha under management.
The company says, once again, that it will expand its current 300 hectares under cultivation to 20,000 hectares
Groups petition the World Bank, US and Netherlands to support an independent investigation into human rights abuses committed against dozens of vulnerable people in Kiryandongo District, western Uganda, by agribusiness company, Agilis Partners.
