Le 21 mars prochain, plusieurs ONG et réseaux organiseront un dialogue entre acteurs de la société civile et acteurs politiques belges et européens sur le thème de l’accès à la terre.
A disputa judicial entre a Companhia de Terras Sud Argentino, filial da Benetton na Argentina, e a comunidade Mapuche já segue há mais de quatro anos.
Sudan is top of the list of countries selected for Saudi investments, says Undersecretary of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Agriculture
"Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Gulf states are following in the footsteps of China and looking beyond their shores to make heavy investments in agriculture
Translation of Dakar Appeal against the land grab
Asian palm oil producers are being accused of cashing in on Africa in their search to expand production
Venezuelan Minister for Agriculture and Land and the president of the Chinese Heilongjiang Beidahuang State Farm Business Trade Group have signed an agreement to form a joint venture food company.
Company says it is "difficult to acquire land or farms overseas" but aims to set up 15 to 20 feed mills in South Asia and Central Africa over the coming five years.
"We don't invest in commodities; the trend is for them to fall. The value is in owning the land ... And we are not investing in land anywhere else in the world, except Brazil," says Daniel Ward of the Virginia Tech endowment
Afrifresh manages 14 farms across South Africa, with over 3,000 hectares under irrigation, in addition to its export agency business.
The company is currently looking at concluding another deal in Africa as well as other opportunities on behalf of regional investors for large scale production of crops in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
