A Chinese-owned firm operating banana plantations has caused a water conflict in Chiang Rai's Phaya Meng Rai district.
The government is to ignore the SABL Commission of Inquiry and endorse the SABL land grab by converting the unlawful leases into registered land and issuing new leases to companies.
Kenya’s biggest flower firm is set to go under the auctioneers’ hammer, as owners of the Indian multinational failed to defend the winding up petition filed in court by creditors.
- Daily Nation
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04 April 2016
We denounce these repressive acts in the strongest terms and call upon the authorities to immediately hold to account all those responsible behind the vicious attacks on Indonesian and Filipino farmers, indigenous peoples and their supporters.
Foreigners from EU countries may be entitled to buy farmland located in towns or villages (intravilan), as well as woodland, according to a draft bill initiated by several Romanian MPs.
- Romania Insider
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01 April 2016
Trends suggest that farming may soon become a hotbed of M&A activity
The factory and a sugar-cane plantation in Limeira do Oeste, Minas Gerais state, will be sold to JFLim Participacoes, Chicago-based ADM said
La Rapporteure spéciale sur la situation défenseurs des droits de l’homme en Afrique note avec préoccupation les allégations d’intimidation dont serait victime M. Nasako Besingi, qui défend les communautés locales dans le cadre du développement des plantations d'huile de palme.
Prime Minister Tihomir Oreškovic has announced that an investor from the Middle East is interested in a 10,000 hectare plot of agricultural land in Slavonia.
We believe that there's plenty of land in Africa and Africa will feed the world, says Nuradin Osman, AGCO managing director for Africa and Middle East.
The Special rapporteur on human rights defenders of the ACHPR expresses her concern on alleged judicial harassment and intimidation of activist defending the land rights of local communities in the context of the expansion of oil palm plantations in southwest Cameroon.
In the future the national holding "KazAgro" plans to set up similar funds with China and the United Kingdom.