Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd. will work with the Department of Agriculture to identify lands in the Philippine for the production of cash crops, hoping to eventually control over 200,000ha.
Chinese executives of state farms in Ningxia Province visit Ghana to explore opportunites in rice farming and express interest in acquiring the struggling state-owned Aveyime Cattle Ranch.
Grupos da sociedade civil finalmente viram, após uma fuga, um exemplar da versão mais recente do Plano Director para o programa ProSAVANA, com data de Março de 2013. O documento deixa claras as intenções do projecto e confirma que os governos do Japão, do Brasil e de Moçambique estão secretamente a preparar o caminho para a usurpação de terras em grande escala no Norte de Moçambique.
Last week, hundreds of Sudanese protested in Eastern Khartoum demanding the government revoke the sale of farming lands to Gulf investors. There is no logical reason behind these demonstrations except ignorance of the reality of the GCC approach, says economist.
Univanich Palm Oil, one of the Thailand's leading palm-oil producers and its largest exporter of crude palm oil, is expanding into Asean with its first investment in the Philippines.
"We have also approved the allocation of 20, 000 hectares of land to a Chinese company for rice production," says state governor, Alhaji Garba Umar.
African lawmakers have resolved to strengthen existing laws at the national and regional level to prevent fraudulent land deals on the continent
Civil society groups warn secretive plan paves the way for a massive land grab in northern Mozambique.
Miles de millones para conquistar Africa. Según un informe publicado hoy en Estados Unidos, desde 2000 a 2011, China invirtió más de 75 mil millones de dólares en ese continente.
Kinnevik, the investment group which is the biggest investor in Black Earth Farming, revealed that it is to sell its Polish farm to cash in on gains in land prices, and bankroll "other opportunities in emerging markets further east".
Además de la alarmante expansión de las minas de níquel en la provincia de Palawan, los pueblos indígenas y los agricultores de los llanos se enfrentan ahora a las amenazas que plantea el desarrollo de la palma aceitera.
Recueil de témoignages des victimes du projet Senhuile-Senéthanol dans les villages de Ndiaël, au Sénégal.
Con el afán de aumentar los ingresos derivados de la tierra y las propiedades, todo se permite en la economía globalizada. Se practica, principalmente en los países del Sur, el acaparamiento de tierras para maximizar las ganancias.
Un rapport issu du ministère des forêts camerounais et consulté par l'AFP mardi reproche à la société américaine Heraklès Farms des méthodes "d'intimidation et de corruption" pour acquérir des terres pour la culture du palmier à huile dans le sud-ouest du Cameroun
Since 2011, World Bank investments in large palm oil companies have virtually stopped, but it has backed off from applying the same approach to other crops, although the risks to local communities and indigenous peoples from land grabs from other agribusinesses are not much different.
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