While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
L’accaparement des terres arables mondiales s’étend de jour en jour. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de l’exploitation pour des entreprises agricoles mais aussi l’extractivisme.
The cause of this high level insecurity and loss of innocent peoples' lives is a government policy to take away the indigenous communities land and give it to so called investors both foreigners and Ethiopian highlanders.
AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.
This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.
Bulgarian real estate investment trust Advance Terrafund said on Monday it sold 2,336 hectares of farmland.
A new $3 billion fund jointly initiated by the Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund and Yuhu Agriculture Investment Pty Ltd. is planning to invest $3 billion capital in various projects in Australia.
Authorities plan to arrest about 85 farmers who have occupied a large tract of land, formerly an oil palm plantation, in Plai Phraya district of Krabi today.
Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.
"L'acquisition de terres à grande échelle non seulement réduit les terres disponibles pour les populations locales, mais aussi ce qui est disponible aux populations locales doit être encore subdivisé," indique Allan Moshi
Près de la moitié de la déforestation dans les pays tropicaux s’explique par la conversion illégale de terres en exploitations agricoles à vocation commerciale, selon une vaste étude publiée par l’organisation américaine Forest Trends