More than 10 per cent of Papua New Guinea's land mass has been handed over to foreign and national corporate interests over the past seven years under mysterious land deals that appear to be aimed at logging, not food or cash crop production.
In 2009 Sime Darby Plantation acquired a 63-year concession covering 220,000ha in Liberia that it will developed into oil palm and rubber plantations
A área é equivalente ao município de Iranduba, que possui extensão de 2,21 mil quilômetros quadrados, ou a cerca de 228,5 mil campos de futebol.
A member of the European Parliament said Friday she would push for the European Union to suspend trade preferences for Cambodian sugar after meeting villagers who had been evicted to make way for huge concessions.
Company also in talks with the government of Cameroon on a project estimated to be worth $2.1 billion.
Mitsui may still add a partner to co-invest in Multigrain, as the Japanese company needs a local player to help purchase more land, says company official.
Este estudio se ha hecho por encargo de la FAO y su propósito es rastrear los orígenes de la concentración y extranjerización de las tierras en Bolivia en los últimos años.
D’ampleur mondiale, le phénomène d’accaparement des terres est aigu en Zambie.
Au Sénégal, les affectations réalisées auprès d’investisseurs privés nationaux et internationaux se situent entre 450 et 600 000 ha, soit 30 à 40% des réserves foncières du pays.
Des milliers de familles paysannes sont déplacées de leurs terres, une situation qui provoque l’ire des chercheurs au Sénégal
Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management owns 31,500sq km of Australian grazing land on which it runs cattle and sheep.
La titular de la comisión de Legislación General, diputada Vilma Ibarra (Nuevo Encuentro), adelantó en declaraciones a El Parlamentario, que convocará a un plenario de comisiones para el próximo 2 de junio para tratar los proyectos de ley que limitan la compra de tierras por parte de extranjeros.
Gulf states have opted to buy up large tracts of farmland in developing countries in a bid to safeguard their food supplies – a strategy that risks exporting their water shortages to other nations, analysts said.
In some of the countries where the land investments are being made, people will block the trucks that are hauling the grain from the fields to the ports, says Lester Brown in this interview with NPR
Brewster Kneen discusses what, in the West, is largely overlooked in discussions about land grabbing: how we conceptualize and think about land and our relationship to it.
