L’impact des investissements étrangers dans l’agriculture de l’Afrique australe feront l’objet d’un débat entre les membres du Forum Parlementaire de la SADC et du Parlement Panafricain.

La compra por parte del consorcio estatal chino COFCO de dos de las exportadoras multinacionales de granos más grandes de las instaladas en Argentina encendió las voces de alarma en cuanto a la concentración del comercio exterior de granos por parte de las empresas orientales.

Les participants d'un atelier sur la NASAN ont dénoncé la non prise en compte des préoccupations spécifiques liées aux exploitations familiales et aux droits fonciers.

"L’Etat sénégalais doit effectuer un audit et (fixer) un moratoire pour arrêter la distribution des terres aux individuels ou sociétés nationales ou multinationales", selon Marième Sow.

Land has been grabbed at a significant scale in almost all SADC countries and the agribusiness model is destroying peasant-family agriculture, which produces most of the food for SADC countries.

Earlier this week, the Overseas Investment Office said it did not know how much farmland was owned by foreigners. Yesterday it told Prime Minister Key it believed the amount is 1 to 2 per cent.

Presentation by Yasuo Kondo to the International Conference “Exchange of Experiences on the role of scientific research in the Advocacy of Public Policies”.

Political parties line up to attack Government over proposed buy-up of Lochinver Station farmland by Shanghai Pengxin, the same Chinese interests that created a furore over the purchase of Crafar Farms

New Zealand should consider adopting policies similar to China's where strategic assets like farmland cannot be sold to foreign investors, only leased, a senior academic said Tuesday.

Les investisseurs des quinze pays européens les plus riches ont désormais, à eux seuls, jeté leur dévolu sur plus de 17 millions d’hectares de terres, dont 70 % sur le continent africain.

L’agriculture à grande échelle fait son chemin à Madagascar avec Tozzi Green, une filiale du groupe italien Tozzi Holding.

The head of New Zealand's main farming organization on Tuesday said it welcomed Chinese investment, but urged prospective buyers of farmland to understand the pressures facing New Zealand farmers.

La empresa Wilmar Internacional, uno de los mayores operadores del mundo de aceite de palma y azúcar, continúa con sus prácticas abusivas de deforestación y acaparamiento de tierras.

After the riverside community of Dunster, B.C. learned a landholdings company owned by U.S. billionaires bought nearly 1,000 acres in the area, residents voiced concerns about rising real estate prices, abandoned farmland and declining populations throughout the Robson Valley. As the area's aging farmers sell off property to fund retirement, newcomers vying to live off the land find themselves competing with global investors.

African and US firms announce an additional $7 bn in spending to promote ag development in Africa, even though “private interests do not always line up with foreign policy objectives,” such as when they purchase land, displacing villagers.