Philippines company will contribute its hybrid rice varieties to the venture while the Myanmar partner will provide the land for production and the Thai partner will handle global marketing.

Government of South Korea's 10 year plan for expanding Korean agribusiness outside of Korea through overseas agricultural development.

Beaucoup de Russes s'inquiètent de voir leur pays devenir un "réservoir" de matières premières pour le voisin chinois qui achète leur pétrole, qui exploite leurs forêts et leurs terres agricoles.

African agriculture has a big investment problem: lots of private equity interest but few opportunities because most farms and companies are too small to absorb the cash or provide attractive returns.

Foreigners are buying up prime agricultural land, but proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade.

Olam est l'un des sept leaders du marché alimentaire mondial. Mais il se distingue par son intérêt pour l'amont de la filière, un secteur rémunérateur, selon Sunny Verghese.

A Olam International, uma transnacional Indiana do agronegócio, e está a desenvolver um sistema gigantesco de fomento agrícola nos 850 mil hectares de terra que lhe foram concedidos por 20 anos, num local não muito longe do porto da Beira, em Moçambique.

Public-private partnership program envisions letting investors farm up to 4 million hectares of currently unused government land for up to 50 years in large-scale 400,000-hectare projects.

Ethiopia announced on Friday plans to lease 100,000 hectares of land both to local and foreign investors, despite recent reports that foreign investors were grabbing large chunks of land.

Olam International, an India-based multinational agribusiness company, is developing an outgrower scheme on a giant 20-year, 850,000 hectare concession it has secured not far from the port of Beira, Mozambique.

Three MoUs on investment in mineral exploration and sugar cane plantation in Cambodia were signed last weekend in China’s Guangxi province at the Forum on Potential Investment and Business Opportunities in Cambodia.

The Liberian government has leased nearly 6 per cent of Liberia’s total land mass to palm-oil companies. More than a million people live on those lands, and 150,000 will be affected in the first five years of the plantations.

We are witnessing a second scramble for Africa and other poor countries by rich nations and agribusinesses to acquire land for agricultural and biofuel purposes.

Today in the lead up to World Habitat Day on October 1st Witness are proud to announce a new video People Before Profit – bringing communities across the world together to tell the global story of forced evictions.

Les organisations de la société civile partagent avec les députés leurs inquiétudes à propos du code foncier et domanial en République du Bénin, un document tant attendu pour mettre fin aux conflits fonciers et à l’accaparement massif des terres