President Jose Mujica said that private land sales will be honoured but under no conditions will sovereign funds or foreign countries be allowed to purchase land in Uruguay as is happening in Africa.
L’Ethiopie ne supporte guère les critiques concernant sa politique de location de terres à grande échelle.
In Nigeria today, foreign acquisition of arable agriculture land has become a hot and widely discuss issue.
Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.
Goverment of Ethiopia webpage on land lease contracts (in Amharic)
Le groupe malasien Rimbudan Hijau vient d’annoncer son intention de se lancer dans l’huile de palme après l'acquisition de milliers d’hectares de terres coutumières dans la province de Nouvelle-Bretagne orientale.
Oficialmente, 844 mil hectares estão sob o controle dos “gringos”, seja através de arrendamento ou mesmo de aquisições feitas por empresários rurais, grupos ou corporações internacionais.
Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.
Agroindustriales extranjeros compraron o arrendaron más de un millón de hectáreas de tierra en Bolivia en los últimos años. Los brasileros habrían adquirido cerca de 700 mil hectáreas; los argentinos, 100 mil hectáreas; y menonitas y japoneses, otras 200 mil has.
Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.
Los ejes que en que se centra la mesa son el Ibera es un patrimonio de los correntinos, la negativa al proyecto Ayuí Grande y a la extranjerización de la tierra
O levantamento do Incra aponta também que Mato Grosso é o que apresenta maior concentração de terras por proprietários de fora do país. Isto quer dizer que, com o passar do tempo, o interesse pelo território aumentou e a introdução do capital de outros países estabeleceu uma competição com os produtores nacionais.
Sudanese officials have set aside 17,000 hectares of land in White Nile state for an Egyptian meat project.
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
World food security fears may be driving the foreign rush to buy Australian farmland and agribusinesses, says Nationals' leader, Warren Truss.
