L’ennui, reconnaît la Banque mondiale, c’est que ces investissements, loin d’être une aubaine pour le continent noir, finissent par nuire à des populations déjà pauvres et à des économies précaires.
Feasibility study to invest in a large scale agro-industrial project in the land designated as the Katumba and Mishamo refugee settlements
ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
Sudan is seeking to attract at least $1bn of capital for its agricultural sector from Arab and Asian investment groups, which are turning to Africa in search of new food supplies as their governments try to manage the impact of commodity price inflation.
Vinda virtualmente do nada, a China disparou para a posição de maior investidor estrangeiro direto no Brasil este ano, com aquisições que variam de minas de ferro a vastas terras para plantio, bem como linhas de transmissão de energia.
DRC, with 80 million ha of rich arable soil of which only 5% is cultivated, has invited Indian investors in the area of largescale farming to come and assess the possibilities.
From virtually nowhere, China has rocketed to become the biggest foreign direct investor in Brazil this year with purchases ranging from iron ore mines to vast tracts of farmland and the electricity grid.
Given the expected need for additional arable land to be brought into production on a global basis, the amount of capital that could enter the [farmland acquisition] sector could substantially exceed USD 150 billion.
La revue EcoRev’ a demandé à Agter de présenter son analyse du phénomène d’accaparement des terres agricoles dans le cadre de son numéro d’été consacré à l’agriculture
Par voie d’affichage de deux « avis publics » daté du 7 juillet 2010 l’Etat a informé le public mauritanien de sa décision de mettre à la disposition du groupe saoudien Al-Rajhi des terrains à usage agricole
A poll shows 75.5 percent of voters want the rules on foreigners buying NZ farmland tightened, with only 8 percent saying they should be relaxed.
There are plenty of examples in the world of countries that can no longer feed themselves because somebody decided it was cheaper or more intelligent to buy all their food from somebody else.
Là où le bât blesse, c’est dans le prix de la transaction : dans la plupart des pays, il n’y a pas – ou pas encore – de marché du foncier rural. Comment, alors, établir le prix d’un hectare de terre ?
Les Kenyans ont adopté hier par référendum une nouvelle Constitution qui, concernant le foncier, envisage la possibilité de supprimer la propriété perpétuelle pour les étrangers en la ramenant à un bail de 99 ans au lieu des 999 ans actuels.
Analysts and farming executives say the crisis is likely to accelerate the consolidation of Russian agriculture already under way, allowing big conglomerates to swoop on struggling small farmers.
