A Chinese property conglomerate is bidding for a 15,000 hectare farming project in the Australian outback as Canberra looks to open the remote north for farming to tap booming demand for food from Asia, especially China.
Investors from Canada and the Netherlands have almost half of all foreign forest and farmland holdings in the USA. The Canadian holdings reflect investment by timber companies, while the Dutch holdings reflect pension fund investments.
Evo Morales, président de la Bolivie a déclaré être d’accord avec la proposition de la Fédération des Paysans de Santa Cruz de réaliser un audit national sur la propriété des terres dans le pays, afin de connaître par qui et comment elles sont administrées.
Cambodia is a microcosm of a violent struggle playing out across the globe for control of a shrinking – and therefore increasingly valuable – pool of natural resources.
Un informe estatal reveló casos emblemáticos de operaciones irregulares para acaparamiento de tierras por políticos y latifundistas, mientras se agrava la crisis de miles de familias campesinas paraguayas que reclaman parcelas para trabajar y vivir.
The chief of Harvard University’s $32 billion endowment said the fund has been eyeing timberland, farmland, infrastructure, energy and water-related investments in anticipation of growing global demand.
Not only is the current food situation deteriorating, but so is the global food system itself. The progress in reducing hunger in recent decades has been reversed. Unless we move quickly to adopt new population, energy, and water policies, the goal of eradicating hunger will remain just that. Time is running out. The world may be much closer to an unmanageable food shortage than most people realize.
Dominion Farms will start planting rice in December 2012 on its 30,000 ha rice farm in Taraba and has trained 50 commercial farmers in Kenya who will soon start their own commercial rice operations in Nigeria.
Charoen Pokphand Group plans to invest $550 million within the next three years to develop maize and rice farms, rice mills and livestock processing plants.
«Non à une seconde Fanaye à Wassadou». Les populations de Wassadou et environs, au Sénégal, ont investi l’avenue Léopold Sédar Senghor pour protester contre la mise en œuvre d’un projet agro industriel sur 3000 ha.
A senior government official in Serenje has urged the Zambia Development Agency to quicken the process of facilitating investment inflow in the 155,000-hectare Nansanga farm block in Central Province.
For years, Romania has been a playground for foreign investors. Drawn by the vast amounts of available land, along with prices lower than in the rest of Europe, more than 700 000 hectares of land are now owned by foreign investors.
