The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.
What kind of role should the private sector have in the post-2015 fight against poverty and food insecurity? And how should EU governments ensure it is genuinely inclusive and responsible? Yaekob Metena explores the possibilities.
A series of private Vietnamese giants have expanded their investment in the agriculture sector, sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in cattle breeding and growing sugarcane and maize.
Contract farming and large-scale farming emerged as the two principal models to upgrade peasant agriculture to meaningful production levels
Farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organizations, under the umbrella of Our Land Our Business, call World Bank’s annual Conference on Land and Poverty a sham.
Ten thousand peasant families are victims of the most aggressive and imperialist initiative backed by the G8 countries
Chinese companies are planning to invest in maize and tobacco farming in the Zambezi region of Namibia where the environment is very good and the land is fertile. The companies are now doing the preparatory work.
Mitchell's Yougawalla Pastoral Company the latest Australian cattle station business to be put up for sale. Foreign corporations have spent some A$63.5 million buying into the sector in the past month.
Understanding where the money for a given investment comes from and where the produce is sold can provide new levers for public accountability.
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir clarified that Sudan has the land and water and Egypt has the human resources and expertise while gulf countries can provide financing.
Myanmar government has been allocating land for large-scale private agricultural businesses in the country’s biodiversity-rich forests at an alarming rate. Between 2010 and 2013, the area of land marked for commercial agriculture has increased from nearly 2 million acres to 5.2 million acres.
Investment in agricultural production and trade often harms the rights of local and indigenous peoples while failing to contribute significantly to economic development, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Institute.