An American owned company with a track record of illegality and links to private equity giant Blackstone Group is threatening to destroy rainforests and dislocate local communities in Cameroon, Africa.
New York venture-finance firm Herakles Capital has withdrawn its application for membership of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil after complaints by environmental groups about its $350 million project in Cameroon.
It is understood the agricultural division of the $163 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has been sniffing around Australian agricultural land recently and has had discussions in Australia with landholders such as PrimeAg.
Les 20 photos d'Alfredo Bini proposées dans ce portfolio de Mediapart viennent témoigner de la destruction radicale des pratiques agricoles, entrainant pauvreté, famine et épuisement des sols.
Dossier paru dans « Alternatives Internationales » de septembre 2012
Le groupe Bolloré ne cesse d’étendre son influence en Afrique et se tourne désormais vers les terres arables de la Sierra Leone.
The approved sale of sprawling Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station to Chinese interests has sparked a political row as Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce insists foreign ownership is not in the national interest.
Australia approved a Chinese company's bid for giant (100,000 ha) cotton farm, including entitlements to a massive 537,000 mega litres of water, or enough to fill Sydney Harbour.
Foreign purchases of land in New Zealand have dropped off significantly over the last seven months, after Chinese investors became embroiled in a long-running land dispute and declining carbon-credit prices made forestry assets less attractive.
Soy farming in Argentina is often linked to land-grabbing and displacement of small-scale farmers. Aid organizations are demanding action from German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner during her trip to South America.
L'eau est un enjeu souvent oublié dans le marché d'acquisition de terres cultivables à l'étranger, ont mis en garde des experts lors de la Semaine internationale de l'eau, organisée cette semaine à Stockholm.
La Corte Constitucional declaró ilegal una reforma de tierras en extremo regresiva y hay dos proyectos de acto legislativo para impedir que los extranjeros se apoderen de los campos colombianos.
