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.

Journal of Peasant Studies issue focusing on agrarian social movements in Brazil, includes struggles for land.

L’accaparement des terres en Afrique ou en Asie serait-il devenu un sujet impossible à évoquer sans risquer une longue procédure judiciaire ?

Au Mali, le Conseil des Ministres tenu le 7 octobre 2015 a adopté un projet de loi sur le foncier agricole.

COPAGEN a révélé, dans une enquête, le pillage de près de 844.976 hectares. Ces terres se trouvent entre les mains d’une poignée de personnes et de sociétés qui se sucrent sur le dos des populations locales.

Human rights advocates criticize the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee in Ethiopia and two other environmental defenders

A cause de l’absence de l’avocat de la commune de Fanaye dans le département de Podor et celle du conseil de la société Sen-Huile, le juge du tribunal de Saint-Louis a renvoyé hier au 20 octobre prochain l’affaire qui les oppose.

Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, Nigeria designed the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. Is this a model for the future or just another myth?

Des étrangers, avec de puissants capitaux, s’accaparent, avec une certaine complicité, d’une superficie de 1.600 Ha, moyennant 240 francs le mètre carré ! Un prix de charme fixé par l’Etat.

Nearly nine out of every 10 people who responded to a Saskatchewan government survey say they don’t want the province’s farmland to end up in foreign hands.

“The vast majority of respondents do not support pension plans or foreign investors purchasing farmland in Saskatchewan. They do, however, support our government in taking a stronger role in enforcing farmland ownership rules."

O Governo do Maranhão recebeu na tarde de quarta-feira (7), a visita de uma comitiva japonesa interessada em conhecer as potencialidades do Maranhão para futuros investimentos.