Majority of workers have stopped working on the oil palm plantation until the SOCFIN General Manager addresses concerns raised in the Malen Youth Development Union’s letter dated 20 May 2017.
The flood of investment over the last several years means that agricultural land itself is being treated more and more like a profitable financial asset, instead of a productive natural resource.
As the farmland REIT sector grows, Sustainable Economies Law Center is busy researching and piloting alternative models of farmland ownership that prioritize racial equity, ecological sustainability, and long-term stewardship.
Merauke govt's move to pull 11 permits wins church and popular backing, but damage to nature 'has already been done
Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture has called for a review of the flawed 50 year land lease agreement signed in 2011 between land owners and Socfin Agriculture Company
In the midst of a sharp rise in violent repression against rural communities, Brazil's government plans to lift current limits on foreign ownership of agricultural land, an initiative that has even been criticized by the country's armed forces
Industry Super Australia claims foreign investors are cherry-picking the best Australian farming investments.
China's DRex Food Group is negotiating with Belarus for the lease of 20,000 hectares for the construction of a 40,000 head dairy farm in the Mahiliou region, Klimavichy district.
Iran's South Khorasan Province aims to get hold of 10,000 ha of farmland in Kazakhstan for its own food production. Ukraine is also being targeted.
The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Tuesday has issued a presidential decree to allocate 2,4 million feddans of land in the River Nile State for a national agricultural scheme, backed by the UAE's Al Dahra Agricultural Holding
Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture invites potential national and international investors to finance irrigation projects of 200,000 hectares for food production, including the controversial ProSavana programme and Lurio River Valley Development Project.
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”