A team of investors headed by the former Philippines Department of Agriculture Secretary has chosen Gabadi in the Kairuku District of Central Province as the ideal location for a large-scale rice farm.
With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.
A push to ban foreign companies from owning farmland in the US state of Missouri is facing pushback from major industry groups.
The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.
A group of farmers and pastoralists from Zindiwa Community in Nigeria's Bauchi State are suing the state government over the allocation of 10,000 hectares of farmland to Tiamin Rice limited.
Government says it will not give company a concession for an additional 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province, in accordance with a 2012 government decision.
Bishops say they are witnessing a veritable avalanche of citizens from other countries in the African region and even from other parts of the world buying up land in the Central African Republic.
The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.
Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.
NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.
