Les ministres de l'Agriculture du G8 se retrouvent pour la première fois de samedi à lundi en Italie, avec leurs homologues des pays émergents, pour trouver des solutions à la crise alimentaire qui reste une urgence malgré la baisse des prix des denrées.
Saudi Arabian investors want to lease 500,000 hectares of farmland in Tanzania to grow rice and wheat.
There is a need to allow countries which do not have access to arable land to guarantee food security of its people by an “Exchange Agreement”.
À la suite de discussions au Congo avec une délégation des fermiers sud-africains, les parties congolaises et sud-africaines ont convenu d’une déclaration d’intention sur la mise à disposition de terres, la protection des agriculteurs et de leurs affaires, le bénéfice de l’exonération des droits et taxes de douane sur les intrants et les matériels agricoles.
Hyundai Heavy Industries -- the world's biggest shipyard -- has bought a big tract of Russian farmland in one of the latest diversification moves by Korean firms. But here's a question: Have performance- and profit-obsessed Hyundai Vice Chairman Min Gye-sik and its CEO Choi Kil-seon voluntarily decided on the move or has the company's biggest stakeholder pushed for the plan?
Malagasy farmers have backed a move by the country's new president to stop a $6 billion land deal with South Korea's Daewoo Logistics, saying it would have come at the expense of local people's needs for land.
Saudi investors have asked Tanzania if they can lease 500,000 hectares of farmland mainly for rice and wheat farming as part of a plan to secure food supplies for the desert kingdom, officials said.
Jarch Management Group, Ltd., a US investment firm, disclosed that it is considering additional opportunities to lease large tracts of farmland in Southern Sudan.
The region continues to have great market potential as a number of Thai rice companies have offices there and some have been approached by local governments to invest there in milling, processing and even growing rice.
La création du Fonds d'investissement pour l'agriculture africaine ne répond pas aux objectifs de lutte contre la faim.
"A l’heure où des achats de terre massifs nous inquiètent, il est important de dire, en un mot, que le Fonds ne sera pas l’ennemi de l’agriculture familiale."
Vision3, the promoter of AgriCap, the investment vehicle conceived to invest in visionary initiatives across the agriculture sector in the greater MENA region announced today that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TIGEM), a Turkish governmental agency falling under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
