The foreign-ownership debate is relatively recent and, as noted below, it is not at all clear who is seeking to repeal the existing legal restrictions on the foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland.
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire.
The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations.
O lóbi para industrializar a produção alimentar na África altera as leis fundiárias e das sementes de todo o continente para servir as empresas estrangeiras de agronegócio.
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Les tensions rurales provoquées par le lancement du projet Senhuile s’accentuent de jour en jour au Sénégal
Des éleveurs de 37 villages de la commune de Gnith, au Sénégal, ont marché hier pour crier leur ras-le-bol contre la société Senhuile-Senethanol
Some 228 companies are currently possessing about 1.8 million hectares of economic land concessions in Cambodia.
Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group
Tensions keep mounting between the all-powerful SOCFIN Agricultural Company and people of the Sahn-Malen chiefdom in the Pujehun District.
Parliamentary committee orders Ministry of Lands to recover 3,000 hectares of land the latter had sold to a Swedish company - EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region.
As major investors like Dangote and makers of Indomie Noodles, Dufil, move massive investments into Nigeria's Edo State, the Commissioner for Agriculture says the state is set to take over as the nation’s food basket.
Investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade treaties give investors far-reaching protection, reinforcing the notion of land as a commodity.
Au Burkina, certains invoquent la propriété étatique de la terre pour espérer un meilleur accès à la terre quand d’autres considèrent que si la terre appartient à l’État, c’est qu’elle appartient à tous.
Produire une huile de palme "durable" est-il possible ?
A Japanese trading conglomerate and the holding company of Thailand’s richest person acquire a fifth of Citic Ltd., in one of the biggest foreign investments in a Chinese state-owned company.
