Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FOEN) has raised the alarm that the incessant land grabbing by multinationals companies would lead to scarcity of agricultural farm products in Edo State.
G's Espana is the Spanish subsidiary of the British G's Group, which claims to control 5,000 hectares of farmland in Spain and 12,500 hectares around the world.
The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.
The African Development Bank is nevertheless accelerating a push for projects such as the failed 80,000 hectare Bukanga Lonzo project in the DRC, for which it provided about $1 million to finance a feasibility study.
Hubert Fabri, un associé de Vincent Bolloré dans la multinationale luxembourgeoise Socfin, est accusé de corruption par la justice belge. Le procès s'est ouvert le 22 mai, une semaine avant l'Assemblée générale du groupe.
The president of the republic is said to have intervened to cancel the plan aimed at opening up farmland concessions to foreign investors.
Les ZES facilitent l'accès au foncier pour l'agrobusiness. La dernière en date concerne le Mali, le Burkina Faso et la Côte d'Ivoire.
Around 486 local families who have been embroiled in land disputes with Koh Kong Sugar Industry and Koh Kong Plantation have requested intervention from Cambodia Ministry of Land Management.
No Brasil, o Mato Grosso e o Matopiba são as regiões preferenciais de grandes aquisições, de acordo com Márcio Perin, coordenador da área de Terras da consultoria Informa Economics IEG/FNP, referência na análise dos preços e transações de terra no país.
Aspiring politician Gameal Joyce says he does not understand why 4,000 acres of land in Antigua and Barbuda are required for the proposed agricultural development project with China.
La mesure permettant le transfert de la concession des terrains agricoles aux investisseurs nationaux et étrangers a été carrément abrogé dans la nouvelle mouture du projet de la loi de finances complémentaire (LFC 2018) examinée et approuvée, mercredi dernier, par le Conseil du gouvernement.
Tanzania claims to have abundant unused land to attract investors. But as tensions over resources grow, farmers, pastoralists and experts beg to differ.
