Big farming projects in North Africa’s deserts are presented as a response to food insecurity. But aquifers will be depleted and costs will be high. While small farmers are pushed out, there's no guarantee that production will be for local people.

Con 1,2 millones de ha de monocultivo forestal y una extensión similar con soja, la segunda fuente de agua potable más grande de Latinoamérica, la cuenca de la Laguna Merín, está amenazada. Activistas dicen que hay de decidir si la tierra y el agua se usarán para generar empleo y alimentos de calidad, o si seguirán destinadas a la exportación de commodities.

Le gouvernement algérien va mettre 122 000 hectares de terres à disposition des investisseurs dès 2025 afin d'accroître la production nationale ainsi que les exportations, notamment des céréales

The world's leading private equity fund has just invested in Hasfarm Holdings, a flower export giant in Da Lat, Vietnam, marking a new step in the investment trend in the agricultural and food technology sector in Vietnam.

Private equity-backed reforestation startup re.green has signed a partnership with Agro Penido to restore 600 hectares of land owned by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest

La combinación de concesión de tierras públicas gratuitas, un sistema de explotación laboral y generosos créditos fiscales había creado una economía rural extraordinariamente favorable para las grandes empresas nacionales y transnacionles, que llevan a la expansón de megagranjas, Palma y soya, cómo Agropalma, BBF, el grupo Cosan, Amaggi hasta las grandes traders.

The biofuel project led by Uganda'a Jitmat and Face Power of the US will cultivate sweet sorghum on 6,000 ha using a nucleus farm and surrounding smallholder farming model.

Japan's No.2 crude oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia to assess its potential as a feedstock for aviation fuel, in cooperation with the US company Terviva.

Justiça brasileira mantém a suspensão da transferência da Eldorado Brasil Celulose da empresa brasileira J&F para a indonésia Paper Excellence, contrariando sentença arbitral, já que a operação envolve o controle de cerca de 450 mil ha por estrangeiros, o que exigiria autorizações do Congresso e do órgão de terras.

The food estate in Merauke - spanning more than two million hectares - seems set to join the long list of such projects that have failed since the concept was first proposed in 2010, only to leave behind broad damage to the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment, including the loss of customary land belongs to 40,000 indigenous people.

An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.

Por primera vez se realiza un proceso de entrega de tierras cubanas (5.000 hectáreas) a una empresa extranjera, para que se encargue de su explotación.