In addition to these ongoing seven sugar factories, there is also an ongoing private initiative, Hiber Sugar S.C. which will operates on 25,000ha of land in Amhara Regional State at Tana Beles Basin.
Mindanao authorities are looking at developing about a million hectares for oil palm farming and nine companies from Malaysia and Indonesia have signaled their intention to invest.
Maureen Jorand et Francis Ngang évoquent la nécessité de soutenir l’agriculture paysanne pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique. Mais la pression de l’agro-business sur les négociations internationales sur le climat met à mal cette nécessité.
Au Cambodge, au Honduras, en Inde et au Guatemala, des ONG relatent des faits de répression, d'accaparements de terres et de violences ayant entraîné des morts suite aux prêts de la Société financière internationale.
During a visit by the Prime Minister of Hungary, KazAgro and the Export-Import Bank of Hungary agreed to establish a 50:50, $40 million Development Fund to invest in Kazakhstan agriculture.
Pretenden "desviar la atención sobre las dramáticas e insostenibles condiciones en las que sobreviven miles de paraguayos en las zonas rurales y que son violentamente expulsados a favor de agro empresariales extranjeros"
NGOs launch collective call for revamp of World Bank’s private sector arm amid accusations it has ‘lost control of the way money is spent’ and is funding land grabs in Honduras and Cambodia.
Golden Veroleum and Golden Agri-Resource’s palm oil operations in Liberia are compounding poverty and food insecurity by taking land without community consent and making hollow promises of development benefits, says new report.
Que signifie la formalisation des droits fonciers dans des contextes de pluralité des normes ?
Oil palm, billed as a way to improve local economic opportunity and reduce poverty in the tropics, may not live up to that billing, a recent report shows. On the front lines of oil palm expansion, the indigenous forest-dwelling Arfak people of West Papua Province, Indonesia believe they are not the beneficiaries of the palm’s promise.
Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk will open a US$1 billion dairy in a Moscow suburb that will produces its own animal feed and breed its own cows
The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.
George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in agriculture and infrastructure projects in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there.
The Romanian NGO Eco Ruralis has published several fact sheets on foreign companies grabbing farmland in Romania, including Padova Agricultura, Riso Scotti, Generali, and Bardeau.
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2014
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