Chinese investors interested in cultivating Bahamian land could be interested in exporting what they produce as well as supplying the local market, the executive chairman of the Bahamas Agriculture and Industrial Corporation said yesterday.

Contract covers the lease of 3,012 ha in the Gambela Regional State for a period of 50 years, with option for renewal.

The global rush to acquire agricultural land in bountiful Africa evokes concern and protests.

Une campagne de promotion qui vise à offrir des informations aux investisseurs étrangers sur l'appel à manifestation d'intérêt international lancé dernièrement pour une exploitation de longue durée sous forme de partenariat de terrains agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l'Etat marocain sera menée en Europe.

European pension funds are investing in global farmland, with a focus on emerging markets. If political problems arise, “You'll have the World Bank on your side,” SilverStreet's chief investment officer said.

The recent large-scale acquisition of land in Kenya and in Africa in general happens on murky terrain as governments negotiate behind closed doors.

«Les investisseurs provenant de pays frères et amis qui ont manifesté l’intention de s’engager dans la production agricole dans notre pays seront les bienvenus,» dit le président de l'Algérie, qui propose un nouveau régime foncier.

FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.

Such huge transfers of agricultural power must surely come with consequences that are worthy of closer regulatory inspection.

I personally know of the efforts of a leading Japanese company that is cooperating with African farmers to create sustainable systems that blend technology with traditional African lore

Un nuevo informe publicado hoy por FIAN Internacional documenta las conclusiones de dos misiones investigadoras sobre el acaparamiento de tierras en Kenia y Mozambique, y concluye que éste viola los derechos humanos.

A new report by FIAN International documents land grabbing in Kenya & Mozambique and concludes that land grabbing violates human rights.

Korean investors are nervous about trusting African governments’ guarantees, and about complex and frequently arbitrary regulations.

The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity has joined forces with a coalition of organizations to protest against the recent increase in land grabbing - transferring rights over agricultural land in developing countries to foreign investors - and to denounce its support by the World Bank (WB).

The head of a 19-state African trading bloc has denied the Gulf’s policy of snapping up cheap farmland across the continent is tantamount to a ‘neo-colonialist’ land grab.