The thriving market for land for commercial agriculture in East and West Africa is now seen as a threat to food security as rural populations are pushed off prime land.
Saudi Star Agricultural Development is being sued by an Ethiopian state company for failure to pay for the clearing of land in the Gambella Regional State.
Within agriculture, conflicts revolve around land and water sources ownership and use. The case of Karatu Kiru valley sugarcane farming where one of the investors was killed by local community on May 31, 2011 serves as an illustration
Este artigo visa repercutir denúncia feita por organizações camponesas e de direitos humanos, especialmente a Via Campesina, sobre o grave e preocupante processo de acaparamento (1) de terras atualmente em curso em vários países e continentes.
El Partido Comunista (PCU) reclamó oficialmente al Frente Amplio (FA), que la coalición impulse normas que eviten que se agudice el proceso de extranjerización de la tierra.
González Guyer. Los militares cuando no encuentran enemigos, los inventan
Failing rains and drought are not the primary causes of the chronic food shortage and persistent famine hitting Ethiopia given the immense potential the country has.
Indigenous Papuans are at risk of further marginalisation and the forests on which they rely face destruction due to a project by the Indonesian government, activists say.
Les expulsions de familles malgaches des terres sur lesquelles elles vivent, souvent depuis plusieurs générations, sont de plus en plus fréquentes et massives. Cette situation est devenue intolérable à Madagascar.
The Agriculture Investment Summit Americas is a three-day senior-level conference for US, Canadian, and Latin American investors to access global agribusiness and farmland opportunities.
The Chinese Embassy in Wellington wheeled out a government spokesman today in a rare move, to tell New Zealanders they have nothing to fear from Chinese farmland investments.
Farmers have urged the state government to establish a register that would list Victorian farms that have been bought by foreign owners. The call comes as concerns grow over the level of foreign ownership of Australian farms and over the control of productive food resources.
O Ministério da Agricultura (Mapa) avalia que a atual legislação sobre compra de terras por estrangeiros no país "não está clara", dificulta a vinda de investidores e traz "insegurança jurídica".
Outback Australian farmers - hardened from dealing with extreme weather, fires and pests - now have to wrestle with modern trading tools and technology after a tough day tilling the land as they adapt to the rigors of a deregulated market.
Mr Daniel Amelorku, District Chief Executive of South Tongu District in the Volta Region of Ghana said his district has provided 1,000 hectares of land to Global Agri-Development Company (GADCO) and would be expanded to 4,000 hectares within four years to achieve the target.
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