One of the people most active in driving Chinese investment in Australian farmland, David Goodfellow, is switching camps to help build a $1 billion Canadian investment portfolio.
- Farm Online
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15 January 2018
Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.
- Bloomberg
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04 January 2018
El régimen tiene una estrategia de compra en todo el mundo para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria de sus 1400 millones de habitantes; cultivan 10 millones de hectáreas en el exterior.
- La Nación
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23 December 2017
Two farmers from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were shot inside oil palm plantation of PT. Bumi Sawit Kencana (BSK), a subsidiary of Wilmar Group. They were shot by police officer assigned to secure the plantation area.
Des associations de la communauté anuak exhortent les gouvernements éthiopien et indien à arrêter leurs négociations avec Karuturi Global Ltd et à faire en sorte que l’entreprise quitte définitivement Gambela et les autres régions d’Éthiopie.
Anuak organisations, with the strong support of international civil society, call on the governments of Ethiopia and India to cease negotiations with Karuturi Global Ltd and to ensure that the company fully exits Gambela and other parts of Ethiopia.
Jean-François Mombia Atuku vient d'effectuer une tournée en Europe pour dire de visu aux Banques européennes de développement ce qui se passe dans les plantations de Feronia.
- Jeune Afrique
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13 December 2017
In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.
- IDEF et al.
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12 December 2017
The Ukrainian parliament voted on Thursday to extend a ban on the sale of agricultural land by one year, delaying what financial backers say is a key reform essential to Ukraine's long-term economic growth.
China’s Hunan Dakang International Food and Agriculture Co, which has acquired controlling stakes in two Brazilian soy companies, is next looking to enter the beef business in the country, its chairman told Reuters on Wednesday.
Thanks to the railway and other projects, former Soviet bloc countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan smell opportunity for boosting agricultural exports to China. So does Russia.
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi tells Reuters that the governments of India and Ethiopia are working to “amicably resolve outstanding Karuturi issues”.
Backed by official encouragement, China’s largest pig farming companies and new entrants are racing to build vast hog farms in the north-eastern cornbelt.
US company Dominion Group could be preparing to leave Kenya after 15 years of running a multi-billion farming project at Yala in Siaya County as its CEO Calvin Burges has written letters to employees telling them of plans to close down the business.
- The Standard
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17 November 2017
2016年6月にGRAINによって発表されたランドグラブに関するレポートの日本語訳が完成したのでご紹介いたします。
Agreements between the State Government and Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment were reached this week, overing 7400ha at Goomig Farmlands, near Kununurra, as part of the Ord Stage 2 project
- West Australian
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10 November 2017
About 40,000 hectares, home to 25 villages and nearly 25,000 people, were leased to Chinese sugar companies in 2011, in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, leaving many with nothing.
Denunciar la explotación que sufre África por empresas extranjeras y pedir leyes más estrictas.
El acaparamiento de tierras cobró una dimensión global, pero es un proceso que predomina en la periferia, incluida la Argentina.
- Página 12
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05 November 2017
Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Investment Company has joined the UAE's Al Dahra in a US$1.3bn joint venture to make agribusiness acquisitions in 10 countries in the Black Sea region, including the acquisition of farmland.
- Food Navigator
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20 October 2017
La Empresa agroindustrial Feronia, financiada por bancos de desarrollo occidentales, promueve el acaparamiento de tierras en República Democrática del Congo y ha sido denunciada por explotación laboral y otros abusos.
- El Diario
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19 October 2017
Salari da fame e violenze contro le popolazioni. Ad oltre un secolo dalla loro nascita, in epoca coloniale, le enormi coltivazioni di palma da olio della Rd Congo continuano a far parlare di sé.
- Repubblica
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10 October 2017
Tampieri Financial Group has sold all the shares it held in Senhuile SA to Mr. Gora Seck, who had already taken over as company president, according to a communique
- Ndar Info
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05 October 2017
Le Collectif citoyen en France contre l’accaparement des terres a organisé un colloque à l’Assemblée nationale le 25 septembre 2017. Reportage de Bastamag.
TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria.
A caravan of 200 women was stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights abuses.
- MALOA et al
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25 September 2017
Le 21 septembre 2017, la police a empêché 150 à 200 femmes de se rendre à Pujehun, en Sierra Leone, en vue d’exhorter les autorités locales à prendre des mesures contre la société SOCFIN.
- MALOA et al.
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25 September 2017
Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established
La multinationale annonce son intention de sortir du pays suite à l’annulation de son allocation de terres. Karuturi est l’un des premiers investisseurs étrangers à louer des terres en Éthiopie.
- Bloomberg
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21 September 2017
COFCO Corp, China biggest agricultural products supplier by revenue, plans by 2020 to see 60 percent of its revenue contributed by overseas markets and control up to 50 million metric tons of foreign grain resources.
- China Daily
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20 September 2017