Ethiopian authorities should drop charges and release three local activists charged under repressive anti-terrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security, say six international organisations.
Vers des rixes du foncier sur les champs des sans voix. La crainte des populations locales de devenir, demain, étrangers sur leurs propres terres se précise.
The $150 million Rural Funds Group has increased its exposure to almonds after striking a deal to develop 1500 hectares in two new almond orchards in the NSW Riverina backed by a long-term lease to Singapore giant Olam.
The new Turnbull government is facing its first big test on foreign investment as Chinese bidders circle Australia's largest landholder, S. Kidman & Co., which owns cattle stations in the top-secret Woomera rocket range.
Uruguayan farm operators are raising a record amount of funds in the securities market after a boom in prices for the country’s farmland.
London-listed M.P. Evans, offloaded 31,000-hectare cattle-fattening property Woodlands, near Westmar, Australia for $28 million to a subsidiary of China's Fucheng Group.
Les vastes terrains au nord de l'Australie attirent de plus en plus d'investisseurs étrangers. Ces trois dernières années, des entreprises indonésiennes et chinoises ont acheté des terres agricoles.
Sunny Verghese, CEO de Olam, cuenta que la empresa estudia entrar a los sectores cacaotero y palmero. Para este último, la inversión sería de US$100 millones.
"Without CDC’s investment Feronia would not have survived and 3500 people would have lost their jobs, as well as the access to the schools, hospitals and infrastructure that the company provides to workers and the community."
Brazilian investors are currently building a cattle farm of 3,000 hectares in the eastern part of Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara.
Farmland Partners, the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust (REIT), says it will eventually branch out from the US.
New Zealand's government on Thursday blocked the NZ$88 million ($56 million) purchase of a local farm by China's Shanghai Pengxin amid public concerns about foreign land ownership.
