GTC s’est lancé dans le maïs avec un objectif de 500 hectares en 2016 tandis que Tolona, une société créée par des privés espagnols, développe 150 hectares de maïs et de tomate dans la Bouenza.

Este martes, tras una movilización a la capital del país, comunidades indígenas de Paraguay lograron que el Senado retire un proyecto ley que impulsaba el “uso racional” de los territorios que habitan.

“As plantações não são propriedade dos fracos na sociedade, mas das empresas ou pessoas físicas ricas com fortes contatos econômicos e, às vezes, políticos".

Los pueblos indígenas del valle bajo del Omo apenas han sido consultados sobre estos proyectos en su tierra, y cualquier atisbo de resistencia se topa con intimidaciones y la fuerza bruta.

Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.

Canada's National Farmers Union (NFU) has released an update to its 2010 report, "Losing Our Grip", about growing corporate control of farmland and the acceleration of debt among farmers.

The Kwegu, the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, is starving as a result of the massive Gibe III dam and associated large-scale irrigation for commercial plantations on tribal land.

More than 200 representatives from remote northeastern Cambodian province refused to accept gifts from land concession company in exchange for clearing their communal land for a rubber tree plantation.

Interest in Vietnam's farmland is growing due to suitable soil and climate conditions, convenient location relative to markets like China and increasing demand for high-tech agricultural products.

An updated report from Canada's National Farmers Union on the threat posed to family farms and food sovereignty by the corporate buy-up of farmland, rising farm debt and agribusiness financing of inputs.

L’Institution arabe d’investissement et de développement agricole a conclu avec la Mauritanie une convention lui permettant d’exploiter une superficie de 3.200 ha de terres agricoles dans ce pays, a-t-on constaté lundi à Nouakchott.

Fourteen companies have been put on a watchlist by Cambodia's Ministry of Environment for failing to live up to their investment promises. The ministry also said it had reduced the firms' land concessions by 14,000 hectares.