A company associated with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates purchased $13.5 million worth of North Dakota farmland. Now the state's attorney general wants to make sure that sale followed the state's corporate farming law.
Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.
Community and civil society representatives from Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast are in Brussels to denounce land grabbing by a Belgian rubber and palm oil company.
La FENOP a organisé un atelier sur l’accès sécurisé des femmes rurales à la propriété foncière, l’accaparement des terres, les stratégies d’intervention du projet et l’élaboration de la stratégie d’accès à la terre agricole des personnes déplacées internes.
Le projet comprend une zone agricole de 168 000 ha où seront cultivés et transformés la luzerne, le blé, le coton, le sésame et d'autres cultures
Le ministre de l’Agriculture de la Tunisie vient de déclarer qu’il ne propose pas au niveau du plan de réformes gouvernementales la vente des terres domaniales aux étrangers mais plutôt la possibilité de les louer à des sociétés à participation étrangère avec la révision du taux de celle-ci dans le capital de 66 à 100%.
Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian farming group that has developed by drawing money from the capital market and buying farms in the country’s southern region, aims to raise EUR 10.7 mln in its biggest capital increase to date.
Friends of the Earth Africa called on the ECOWAS Parliament to expedite action against some multinational agro-commodity coorporations for land grabbing.
PSP Investments, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, to acquire high-quality European agricultural properties, starting with Citri&Co citrus orchards in Spain.
Government documents obtained by Earthsight and El Surtidor and never before brought to light confirm the extent of illegalities committed by ranches previously exposed in Earthsight’s Grand Theft Chaco investigation
Un partenariat tuniso-hollandais, “Farhet El Hicha”, vient de louer une terre agricole de 200 ha afin de produire des tomates destinées à l’exportation.
Comunidade tradicional do oeste baiano relata intimidações e ameaças relacionadas à ‘grilagem verde’ do seu território; investigação da Repórter Brasil revela conexões entre a Agrícola Xingu, uma das envolvidas na disputa, com fornecedores globais do grão
