IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.
Ethiopia’s development of Chinese-backed sugar plants in the country’s south, part of a plan to become one of the world’s top 10 exporters, is struggling because of a lack of funding and technical expertise, a research group said.
Private investments in Moroccan state-owned land leased to farmers and investors reached $1.4 billion by the end of 2015, with 111,000 hectares allocated in the last two years
- Africa Report
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13 June 2016
Starting in 1932, North Dakota law barred nonfamily corporations from owning farmland or operating farms. But that changed in March of last year when the state Legislature passed a bill that would relax the corporate farming ban and Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed it into law.
Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.
For a large majority of MEPs, the G7’s decision to base its programme for food security in Africa on intensive agriculture is a mistake.
More than 200 former employees, waving placards and chanting slogans, accuse the company of failing to settle their dues before the company is taken over by a new management.
Abass Kamara came a long way from Makeni, Sierra Leone to Berlin. Now he sit in the Reichstag, the German Parliament, waiting for answers. He wants to know why Germany supported the Addax-Project.
Research commissioned by the EP’s human rights committee analyses the global land rush from a human rights perspective, and shows that the EU clearly needs to improve how it ensures compliance with human right obligations in projects that it funds.
Projects under the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition need to include environment protection measures and safeguards against land grabs, said EU MEPs in a resolution voted on Tuesday
- EU Parliament
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07 June 2016
From late April to late May several public events were attended by between 1,000 and 2,000 people across the country
For nearly three hours on the morning of 3 June, around a hundred protesters peacefully blockaded the entrances to the headquarters of Bolloré, one of France's most powerful companies.