The company will also seek to obtain land concessions for additional rice cultivation in the districts of Soukhouma and Sanasomboun.

A forum of Saudi agricultural investors at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry will on Sunday discuss the progress of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s Initiative for Saudi Agricultural Investment Abroad.

There is "a wall of money" looking for a home in agricultural investments worldwide, say managers for BlackRock's London-based World Agriculture Fund.

An independent investigation has shown that First Resources Ltd failed to obtain proper consent from local communities before clearing rainforests for plantations in Indonesian Borneo, an Indonesian indigenous rights group reported last week.

La nueva oleada de inversiones empresariales en tierras parece tener como objetivo la expansión e intensificación de un modelo de cultivo con poca visión de futuro, el cual, hasta la fecha, ha marginado las voces y los intereses de las mujeres.

Investigador Jorge Garay dice que Colombia debe crear regulación para afrontar estos procesos.

Sudanese police used tear gas and batons to break up a protest of more than 250 people on Friday demanding that the government revoke the sale of farming land to Gulf Arab investors

Chanson contre l'accaparement de terres au Gabon par Julien N’Kolo Reteno

Carl Heinrich Bruhn, cet entrepreneur allemand a loué 30 000 hectares de terres en Zambie, affirme qu'il n'est pas un accapareur de terres. Il veut que les agriculteurs locaux aient désormais accès aux engrais et aux insecticides pour augmenter leurs rendements.

Government structures across West and Central Africa are now “in a bind and divided, with some ministries choosing to hand over natural resources to agribusinesses and mining, and others seeking to protect the rights of their citizens,” according to Andy White, coordinator of RRI

Le Gabon Vert, fort de ses 5 millions d’hectares cultivables, est ouvert aux investisseurs.

Ce numéro spécial des Cahiers Agricultures analyse la place accordée au foncier et aux diverses formes d’agriculture dans les stratégies des Etats, des investisseurs et des communautés d’acteurs locaux.

Green Scenery calculates that 60% of the total area in Pujehun district is already being, or could soon be converted for large-scale industrial agriculture, primarily for oil palm plantations.

Actualmente una de cada nueve rosas llegan de una única multinacional de la flor cortada, la hindú Karuturi Global Ltd, que en sus viveros de Etiopía y Kenya produce 580 millones de flores anualmente.

Authorities have attributed the growth of a saline lake to irrigation runoff, including that from a company bought this year from the government by Horizon Plantations, a venture majority owned by Mohamed al- Amoudi, the largest single investor in Ethiopia.