Thousands of residents of Amuru District community, in Uganda, could soon lose their land after Gulu High Court ruled that over 40,000 hectares be given to Madhvani Group of companies to grow sugarcane.
A few hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between Nigeria's Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.
The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.
Het totale areaal landbouwgrond dat van oorsprong Nederlandse land- en tuinbouwbedrijven in de afgelopen decennia in gebruik hebben genomen in het buitenland is ongeveer 500.000 hectare, dat is ongeveer gelijk aan 25% van het totale landbouwareaal in Nederland.
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.
On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.
China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.
China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.
A l’occasion d’un colloque organisé, ce mercredi 1er février à Londres, par Rights and Ressources Inititative (RRI), -une coalition internationale d’ONG-, une étude révèle que la faiblesse des systèmes fonciers met en danger les communautés rurales africaines et les expose à l’appétit des grandes multinationales agricoles.
The demonstrators say the global lender’s principles of responsible agricultural investment, known as RAI, fail in their stated objective to protect rights of small farmers.
Terre pubbluiche e sequestro del diritto a produrre
Uncertainty continues over the rules that will govern foreign ownership of Brazilian farmland in the future. Indeed, the debate seems to have regressed and polarized over the last six months with legislators locked over the constitutionality of restrictions.
