Statement published by Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps' website detailing the MOU it signed for agricultural projects in the Ukraine (with an excerpt translated to English).
China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp, known as COFCO, will focus its overseas acquisition drive in the wine and sugar sectors to meet growing demand at home, a senior company official has said.
- China Daily
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28 September 2013
Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de paraître
- Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
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27 September 2013
La multinacional de productos agrícolas Cargill habría adquirido de manera irregular más de 50.000 hectáreas de tierras destinadas a pequeños y medianos campesinos en Colombia, denunció la ONG Oxfam.
After enabling foreign firms to grab vast stretches of land, the government has begun to review its land policy.
- Africa Intelligence
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27 September 2013
Cargill bought a large area of farming land in Colombia many times bigger than the legal limit by setting up dozens of "shell companies", violating the spirit of agrarian reform laws, Oxfam said in a report released.
En privé, les officiels éthiopiens reconnaissent l'échec de leur politique d'agriculture commerciale basée sur la location à bas prix d'immenses portions de terres à des firmes étrangères.
- Africa Intelligence
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27 September 2013
Del 9 al 11 de octubre de 2013 se llevará a cabo en la Universidad Externado de Colombia un seminario internacional sobre concentración y acaparamiento de tierras.
- Grupo Semillas
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26 September 2013
Workers of the troubled Karuturi farms in Kenya went on strike to demand their two months salaries. The incident came two days after four workers tried to commit suicide outside the farm's gates in protest.
President Jakaya Kikwete refutes claims that his government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas in an address at Guelph University, Canada.
- Tanzania Daily News
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26 September 2013
As the world’s population swells beyond seven billion and emerging markets’ appetite for food grows, Canadian institutions are getting increasingly hungry for agribusiness and farmland acquisitions abroad.
- Financial Post
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26 September 2013
El principal accionista de Indupalma es una sucursal en Colombia de la empresa Palmicultora Palmas de Oro, compañía domiciliada en Panamá, un reconocido paraíso fiscal.