Nasako Besingi of the NGO Struggle to Economize our Future Environment (SEFE) was sentenced today for defamation by the SGSOC Company, a subsidiary of Herakles Farms of the US.
Over the past couple of decades, China has embraced trade agreements that oblige it to import foods and implemented policies that favour the development of larger farms and massive agribusiness and food corporations.
A technical guide on safeguarding land tenure rights in line with the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security.
As with previous moments of enclosure and commercialisation, Africa’s recent land rush is already sparking resistance and counter-movements.
Al Dahra Agriculture a subsidiary of Al Dahra Holding and a prominent multinational feed and food agribusiness player headquartered in Abu Dhabi has held its first Feed and Food Symposium in Beijing China.
A senior official at the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has urged Kuwaiti private sector and businessmen to direct investments to the agricultural sector in the Kingdom, offering cultivated land, long-term rent contracts and tax exemptions.
Global agricultural investor the Westchester Group, owned by pension fund manager TIAA-CREF, is on the hunt to buy farms in New Zealand, after focusing its investment attention for the past 25 years on agriculture in the US, Australia and Brazil.
Madagascar Foreign Minister Beatrice Jeanine Atallah conveyed to Swaraj that 85 per cent of its land is arable and India can help the country in a big way in developing its agriculture sector.
SSJFZ is a unique platform which integrates multiple Singapore elements with local application across its entire "farm to table" process.
Some six years after about 2,000 families were pushed off 19,000 hectares of land that was converted to plantation for sugarcane, which is processed into sugar used by Coca-Cola.
Instead of taking suggestions on board from CSOs or its own monitoring bodies, the World Bank continues to push its agenda at the expense of small-scale farmers.
The level of Chinese investment in the Australian beef supply chain appears certain to increase as China hunts for new food sources to feed its one and half billion citizens. Nine Chinese companies have outlaid almost $430 million on Australian beef cattle holdings and downstream red meat supply chain.
