World Bank accountability on forced resettlements resulting from its programs must be front and center at its spring meetings, taking place this week in Washington DC
L’opérateur agricole Senhuile a installé récemment 12 nouveaux pivots à Ngnith, dans la région de Saint-Louis, pour développer la culture du maïs destiné au marché intérieur.
Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.
Un groupe chinois a acquis plusieurs centaines d’hectares de terres à céréales dans le Berry, en France. Une première, qui provoque stupeur et colère dans le monde agricole.
Selon le DG d’Agro Ressources, la préparation des terres pour la mise en place des champs de maïs et de manioc devraient débuter dans deux mois.
The push to buy Australian farmland and buy into agribusinesses continues to grow, with one report showing an overall jump of $1.9 billion in proposed agricultural investment, year-on-year.
El Gobierno de Nicaragua ofreció cuatro millones de hectáreas disponibles del territorio nacional durante la Ronda de Negocios y Foro Mediático Rusia-América Latina, que se desarrolló el 30 de marzo en Uruguay.
Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020.
Chinese investors will spend nearly $2.5 billion in agriculture and $1.7 billion in financial assets. In 2014, those were numbers were $32 million and $51 million respectively.
Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country.
"Complément d’enquête" vous fait découvrir le côté obscur de son empire : plantations d’huile de palme, installations portuaires...
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Since 2012, TerraProject, a documentary photography collective based in Italy, has been producing the first global visual investigation on land investments. They now issue the first photographic book on land issues by TerraProject (photographs) and Cécile Cazenave (journalist).
