China y Rusia (Presidentes Xi Jinping y Vladimir Putin) establecieron en Moscú el 9 de mayo (aniversario de la finalización de la Segunda Guerra Mundial) un Fondo Agrícola de Inversión con un capital de U$S 2.000 millones.
For the first time, the New Mexico State Investment Council is investing in Brazilian agriculture through Brookfield Asset Management’s Brazil Agriculture Fund II vehicle.
The government is in the process of revoking the contract entered by the Tanzania Investment Centre with an investment company, Agrisol, for lease of 10,000 hectares in Uvinza District, Kigoma Region
Mali’s Minister of State Domains and Land Affairs Me Mohamed Ali Bathily has said his ministry will launch a merciless war against land grabbers and those who engage in land speculation
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) urged the Indian and Manipur governments to respect the human rights of small farmers and indigenous peoples in Manipur, India.
More than 9,400 hectares of Amazonian rainforest has been removed for two oil palm plantations in the Peruvian region of Ucayali linked to Czech entrepreneur Dennis Melka.
Ce projet colossal dont le maître d'oeuvre est le géant singapourien Olam génère la controverse: ses défenseurs y voient une promesse de diversification d'une économie de rente pétrolière à bout de souffle; ses détracteurs critiquent son impact environnemental, social et culturel.
La Saskatchewan a lancé une consultation publique en ligne sur la loi qui régit la propriété des terres agricoles de la province pour déterminer entre autres si les régimes de pension et les fonds d'investissement devraient avoir le droit de détenir de tels titres de propriété.
O coro de lamúrias dos camponeses do norte de Moçambique, que travam batalhas para manter as suas terras perante a apetência dos investidores estrangeiras, prevalece.
The master plan of Prosavana, a large agricultural project to be implemented in three northern provinces of Mozambique, is due to be approved by the government by the end of 2015, the project’s coordinator said in Maputo.
The resistance to ProSavana stems from the fact that it aims to integrate peasants in a production process which is exclusively controlled by large TNCs and multilateral financing institutions.
Neither “global land grab” nor “South-South cooperation” discourses do justice to the complexity we witness since Chinese investments in the Brazilian soybean agribusiness have begun taking shape in recent years.