El ministro de Economía y Finanzas, Fernando Lorenzo, presentará en el Consejo de Ministros el proyecto de Ley por el cual se prohibirá que los Estados extranjeros adquieran tierras en Uruguay.
India and China are pushing heavily to open new markets in Africa but how do the local people feel about the results? BBC News video report.
Al Gobierno chino y sus empresas les urge controlar un grueso de la industria de alimentos del planeta para satisfacer la demanda interna ante su acelerado crecimiento demográfico.
- El Universal
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09 August 2013
Un groupe d'ONG vient de publier un volumineux rapport pour dénoncer l'accaparement d'un quart des terres agricoles de la Sierra Leone par des entreprises privées étrangères.
Middle Eastern investors are trying to buy up prime farming land on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. Some farmers who have been offered millions of dollars said they won’t leave at any cost.
The threat posed to agriculture by environmental hazards is now so great that it could wipe as much as £5 trillion off the value of the world’s farm land, equipment and stock in any one year, a heavyweight study is warning.
- The Independent
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09 August 2013
Canadian billionaire Ned Goodman holds an 83% stake in Blue Goose Capital Corp. – the largest organic beef operator in North America that produces not only organic beef, but poultry and fish as well.
Business came to a halt at the expansive Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, after its over 3,000 workers downed tools demanding their July salaries.
Wilmar says it plans to expand its oil palm plantations holdings in West Africa and to start producing sugar in Burma.
Disputes over land tenure threaten social harmony in a number of ASEAN countries
- The Diplomat
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08 August 2013
Operations at Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, have been paralyzed due to a financial crisis.
- The People
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08 August 2013
"Las tierras que tenían como destino los campesinos pobres, por mandato de la ley, es decir las tierras baldías de la nación, le fueron entregadas a grandes capitalistas nacionales y extranjeros".