This study investigates the processes and impact of commercialisation of land in Malawi – specifically the acquisition of huge tracts of communal lands by foreign companies and local elites for sugarcane production.

Nigerian communities respond to Wilmar with a formal statement regarding the company's operations, accompanied by a short video:

China aims to build a number of large-scale agricultural groups that it will encourage to step out of the country through establishing joint ventures with foreign firms or conducting mergers and acquisitions.

The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.

Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.

Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.

A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.

Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.

Trans-Oil, Moldova’s largest agribusiness company, will take over the local company Racova, active in agriculture and food industry, in a transaction estimated at over USD 100 million, which should be completed by December.

An agricultural investment advisor predicts international companies wanting to buy Australian farmland could be scared off by changes to the threshold for scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Review Board.

In addition to these ongoing seven sugar factories, there is also an ongoing private initiative, Hiber Sugar S.C. which will operates on 25,000ha of land in Amhara Regional State at Tana Beles Basin.

These documents from 2012 include the "Triangular Work Plan" and reports for the "Agricultural Development Master Plan"

Seminar in Brazilia for the launching of the Agriculture Investment Fund for Nacala Corridor

Presented by FGV at JICA's ProSAVANA Seminar, "Fourth Opinion Sharing Meeting on Agriculture Development of Northern Mozambique: reporting from the triangular joint mission to promote agriculture investment in the Nacala Corridor", June 5, 2012.

Wanjin, la joint-venture de développement agricole sino-zimbabwéenne qui gère la ferme Hunyani, a ainsi investi 15 millions de dollars dans dix exploitations à travers le pays depuis sa création en décembre 2010

Réunion publique avec la Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau, Paris, le 10 decembre

SOCFIN reprochée par le point de contact national de l'OCDE en Belgique de ne pas avoir respecté des principes directeurs de l'OCDE en matière de conditions de travail et d'environnement.

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