The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency has given up offering land for large scale agricultural investments for an unspecified time.

Mitte Dezember hat das Ministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) an alle Personen, die unseren im September veröffentlichten Protestbrief an das BMZ geschickt hatten eine ausführliche Antwort zurückgeschrieben. Das klingt gut, allerdings enthält die Antwort an zentraler Stelle Falschinformationen, was das Ministerium wiederum zu völlig falschen Schlussfolgerungen kommen lässt. Vor diesem Hintergrund haben wir uns Anfang Februar erneut mit einem Brief an das BMZ gewandt, der (in leichter veränderter Form) auch an die Afrikanische Entwicklungsbank, an den malischen Präsidenten und an westliche Botschaften in Bamako gegagen ist. Die in dem Brief erwähnten Dokumente finden sich weiter unten als PDF-Dokumente (so wie der Brief an das BMZ auch als PDF-Dokument runtergeladen werden kann)

The German government supports companies like M3-SA, which are responsible for large scale land grabbing, by providing loans – in this case through the African Development Bank and the DEG (Deutsche Entwicklungsgesellschaft).

Agriculture cooperation with foreign countries is developing fast in China. 551 investment institutions in China have carried out agricultural investment cooperation in more than 80 countries and regions; and have established 1157 enterprises.

29 March is #DayofTheLandless

The funds will acquire farms and farmland assets, including permanent crops, arable, and pastoral farmland, and lease to experienced operators across the focused geographical regions of Australia and New Zealand.

Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.

Capt. Hosa Okunbo and his technical and financial partners from the San Carlos Group in Mexico say that the farm has already taken off with an initial $11 million investment on a 20-hectare green house vegetables farm.

Sima Mattia's release was sought through the collective efforts of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations who had chipped in with the whopping sum of Le30 million to meet his fine imposed by the presiding Judge.

A large coalition of civil society organisations, NGOs and food campaigners have been working together closely across Europe to call on the European parliament to withdraw the EU’s support from the G7's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

The testimony says former chief executive of Petrobras, Phillipe Reichstul helped direct funds from Petrobras operations into the ethanol start-up group Brenco, which was created in 2006 and had investors that included Vinod Khosla, Steve Case and Tarpon Investments.

China Xinjiang Bingtuan Construction & Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd., which is one of the biggest companies in China, has plans to implement a joint investment project in the agricultural sector of Gomel Oblast