Japanese experts provide an analysis of the ProSavana project's concept note for the development of a large-scale agricultural project in Northern Mozambique.
Several investors with large agricultural leases are being investigated for illegal activities, including corruption, environmental destruction, and failure to uphold the terms of their contracts
BFM speaks to Natalie Ashworth, the senior campainger at Global Witness about the recent allegations of UK’s Equatorial Palm Oil accused of human rights abuses in Liberia.
PGGM manages an agriculture portfolio comprising around 300,000 hectares of purchased farmland in three major food-producing regions: Eastern Europe, Australia and South America.
Investigations by a coalition of international and Liberian NGOs reveal allegations that EPO security personnel and members of the elite Liberian Police Support Unit assaulted and arrested unarmed civilians
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala says the Hong Kong group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan is still having trouble finding large tracts of land for its planned agriculture investments in the Philippines.
While expanding private investment in agriculture is a core ambition of the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, experiences of prior investments raise questions about possible negative impacts.
The project will focus on two areas -- Ngalam Valley and Lac de Guiers that have parcels of land of 15,000 and 40,000 hectares which are suitable for commercial expansion.
Ethiopia's Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency says 3.6 million hectares of arable land is being provided for investors engaged in the agriculture sector.
The Kenya Flower Council foresees huge implications for the country when Karuturi goes down, reports Flora Culture International
African countries are also welcoming big agricultural projects bankrolled by foreign investors whose goal is to send food abroad.
Young farmers in eastern Germany are scrambling to find land as they compete with large multinationals.
