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  Par ces accords de bail, l’Etat malien cède à l’UEMOA la maîtrise d’ouvrage pour l’aménagement de la zone qui sera par la suite conférée à des opérateurs privés originaires des États membres de l’espace sous-régional. 

State law prohibits corporate or foreign ownership of farmland but Co-op executive Oemichen isn't sure. "I've been hearing that trusts of foreign buyers have been trying to buy up farmland in the Midwest ... and titling it in the name of individuals, so it's not being flagged." Under former Gov. Arne Carlson, Oemichen was assistant agriculture commissioner charged with enforcing those laws. He's already alerted current state officials of his suspicions.

Local cane farmer Angelo Grema at the Tully Sugar Mill at Tully in far north Queensland. (Photo: Brian Cassey/The Australian)

Dave Ramaswamy, Allied Venture

The AFD is one of the lead investors in the African Agriculture Fund.

China land grabbing in Argentina : Patagonian steppe near Bariloche city, Rio Negro state. Photograph: Marcos Radicella/Getty Creative

Kassoum DENON le PDG de l'Office du Niger en visite de terrain (journaldumali.com)

Photo: AP

"We understand that if we make the market free, then $30 billion will be enough - and that's not a lot for world financial corporations - to buy up all of our land," says Ukraine’s Minister for Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk

Rajagopal: "We are also trying to build an international campaign across continents with particular focus on Africa and Latin America, which are facing situations very similar to those in India and other Asian countries."

Activists of Janhastakshep protesting against land acquisition for the POSCO project, outside Paryavaran Bhavan in New Delhi on May 18. (Photo: SUBHAV SHUKLA/PTI)

Jumanne Abdallah Maghembe, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives of Tanzania

Liberian vice-president Joseph Boakai planting Sime Darby’s first oil palm seedling at Matambo Estate, Grand Cape Mount County. Looking on is Tun Musa Hitam (second from right).

Indigenous peoples in Peru protesting in defence of their territories.

Were any secret deals signed during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's (left) China visit? (AFP)

A new railroad line in Uruaçu, Brazil, will carry soybeans to a port for shipping to China. Brazil's economic links with China have helped it prosper, but Brazil is selling mostly raw materials. (Daniel Kfouri for The New York Times)