Arab nations are considering launching an ambitious strategy involving investment of nearly $65 billion in the next 20 years to expand their farming sector and ensure food for their fast-growing population.
The Greens have called for a national register of foreign purchases of land and water in Australia.
Guyana investment agency is working with several investors who have interest in large projects for soybean, livestock, cattle and rice covering 70,000 acres in Pirara, Region 9.
Prime Minister John Key yesterday warned of other potential foreign buyers of large tracts of New Zealand farmland lining up behind the Hong Kong company bidding for the Crafar farms as his Government signalled a new focus on overseas investment rules.
Hedge funds and bankers are buying everything from farmland to mines across the Global South. Mark L Thomas looks at how speculators here fuel exploitation half a world away
Afin de garantir leurs approvisionnements alimentaires et/ou énergétiques, de nombreux pays investissent dans des terres agricoles dans les pays en développement. Face à ce phénomène en pleine croissance, la communauté internationale semble démunie.
Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank.
Les catholiques d’Action de Carême et les protestants de Pain pour le prochain unissent leurs forces pour lutter contre une nouvelle forme de colonialisme : «L’accaparement des terres»
The New Zealand Government has signalled it is unlikely to change overseas investment rules to make it easier for land to be sold to foreigners.
New Zealand's Green Party has drafted a bill seeking to stop overseas buyers snapping up large tracts of NZ land. Australian farmers also fear they may have trouble coping with future food and water demands if foreign interests snap up too many of the nation's agricultural resources.
Critics say Australia's Labor party has failed to come to grips with country's future food security, including the acquisition of domestic farmland by foreign investors
Enda Pronat organise du 3 au 4 août un atelier sur’’ l’accaparement des terres et l’avenir de l’agriculture paysanne’’ à l’’hôtel Ndiambour
A group of food security advocates wants a Philippine government-led corporation that identifies new land suitable for local and foreign agricultural businesses abolished.
This Bill is designed to retain ownership and control of sensitive land within New Zealand.
"Nenhuma propriedade de estrangeiro vem aqui para produzir comida para o povo brasileiro," explica Gilberto Portes, secretário executivo do Fórum Nacional pela Reforma Agrária e Justiça no Campo
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