Governments in Asia implements Public and Private Partnership (PPP) projects which worsened landlessness and directly impacts Asian agriculture. Statement by APC on the occasion of the International Rural Women’s Day.
China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming.
Sudan’s National Investment Authority says it offered a Saudi delegation six agricultural projects in various states in north and east Sudan to carry out a food security plan.
Does it make sense to fight land grabbing by adopting rules on how to do it more responsibly?
Quel est l’intérêt de se battre contre l’accaparement des terres en adoptant des règles qui permettent de le faire de façon plus responsable ?
Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.
Herman Shao-ming Hu and Kenny Zhang are finalising the purchase of a majority interest in the 190-year-old Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL) in Tasmania, Australia.
Le moment est venu de remonter le fil de l’histoire en retraçant les différentes étapes qui ont conduit aux appropriations de terres dénoncées dans les médias depuis quelques années. À propos de ce phénomène, on utilise parfois le terme de « néocolonialisme ». Est-ce vraiment le cas ? Ce colonialisme est-il réellement nouveau ? Retour sur la genèse d’un processus en marche depuis plusieurs siècles.
En RDC, un conflit oppose depuis des années une firme canadienne financée par des agences de développement à des communautés villageoises à propos de palmeraies qu’elle aurait accaparées.
La société d'agrobusiness Senhuile SA, contrôlée par les Italiens de Tampieri Financial Group, est dans la mélasse des affaires judiciaires
Right now, Senhuile Inc is caught in a web of lawsuits.
Dakang New Zealand Farm Group, which is 55 percent owned by Shanghai Pengxin, has quit efforts to buy 10 farms in Northland, citing five months of silence from the Overseas Investment Office.
Dairy investors John Penno and Juliet Maclean are selling out of Chinese-controlled Purata Farms, the Canterbury corporate they founded 15 years ago as Synlait Farms.
Contrary to reports that Chinese firms were buying or leasing millions of hectares of prime African farmland, Chinese investors have acquired only about 240,000 hectares.
Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.
