A busload of indigenous leaders highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in Bonn. They demand respect for land rights, decriminalisation of indigenous activists, and free, prior and informed consent before any development by outsiders.
The Brazil Agrobusiness Group, a company focused exclusively on rice cultivation at Kpenu, near Dabala in the South Tongu District is to double production by 2020.
The Edo State governor says one of the companies that has signed up to invest in the state is Tolaram, a huge conglomerate from Singapore that plans to invest $50 million in oil palm and cassava cultivation.
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov is seeking the right to buy three farms to extend his game ranch to 46,000 ha, and at the same time is offering to donate N$24 million to the land reform ministry.
Santiago Maldonado es el nombre que sacudió la Argentina desde el 1 de agosto. En el medio, la multinacional Benetton, propietaria de 900.000 hectáreas, el mayor terrateniente de Argentina.
Communiqué from RIAO DRC denouncing recent threats and intimidation against communities and NGOs in the oil palm plantation areas of the Canadian company Feronia.
Une Délégation de FERONIA séjourne en ce moment en RDC. Séjour qui présentement soulève de nombreuses inquiétudes vu les traitements dont sont victimes les membres et travailleurs de notre ONG.
Sudan wants to expand agricultural production and investments, which could benefit it as well as Egypt, but Cairo worries that such a development might threaten its supply of the Nile's water.
Productores agropecuarios de varias localidades de Corrientes ratificaron con un plenario abierto en Boquerón la defensa de la vida en el campo y se manifestaron en contra del desarraigo, la concentración y extranjerización de tierras.
New corporations have emerged that buy or lease vast areas of farmland in developing countries. They grow monocultures to feed the industrialized agriculture.
Farmers and communities from across Papua New Guinea have engaged in civil disobedience, protests and lawsuits to reclaim their land, even in the face of violence and aggression.
The deal will also see the company, backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, acquire two certified organic properties owned by Arcadian covering over 30,000 ha.