This report has been written for emerging market private equity fund managers. It highlights trends in private equity investment in emerging markets agribusiness
“Russia and China’s investment in agriculture will enable the development of large areas of [uncultivated] arable land on the borders between our countries,” RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev was quoted as saying.
Some estimates now bring the total of Ukrainian farmland controlled by foreign companies to over 2.2 million ha.
In this presentation Ward Anseeuw describes the increasing financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impact this has on land and food availability.
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
Cet atelier vise à réfléchir sur la manière de livrer l’information aux populations et à évaluer la responsabilité des uns et des autres sur les problèmes fonciers.
El fracaso de la política de restitución de tierras no solo enterraría este derecho de las víctimas sino que legitimaría las prácticas de despojo por parte de grandes actores económicos.
SigmaBleyzer's company AgroGeneration manages fields of wheat, sunflowers and other crops in five Ukrainian regions and is looking for deals to expand farm operations in the country
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived. A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
"Les actions nécessaires seront introduites contre les propagateurs de ce mensonge," annonce le groupe Socfin.
Il land grabbing si presenta insomma come un’ultima versione del neocolonialismo, che priva della loro terra i pastori e i piccoli coltivatori locali, l’accaparramento dell’acqua e la perdita della biodiversità. La ricerca si è concentrata sull’Etiopia, l’Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi: la fotografia è accompagnata da ampi testi esplicativi
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.
My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.
¿Qué es tal invasión? ¿Qué cubre tantas y tantas hectáreas de esta tierra de enorme fertilidad? Ustedes mismos reconocerán por su morfología que son palmeras, pues sí, este bosque sin fin es un bosque de palma africana que las empresas multinacionales han convertido en una epidemia planetaria para su beneficio.
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