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African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the UN's Food and Agriculture Office said

Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.

The agenda of the upcoming session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security, on 11-14 October 2010, includes a policy roundtable on land tenure and international investment in agriculture.

Abu Dhabi finalises scheme to purchase 29,400 hectares of land in Sudan

Là où le bât blesse, c’est dans le prix de la transaction : dans la plupart des pays, il n’y a pas – ou pas encore – de marché du foncier rural. Comment, alors, établir le prix d’un hectare de terre ?

Global Witness proposes how the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure can best address the macroeconomic impacts of corruption and governance failures in large scale land acquisitions.

Opponents of land grabbing say the capital, technology and expertise from large land investments are unlikely to trickle down to poor farmers.

The Asian Development Bank is warning the region's rural sector could be expoited by international investors as concerns about global food and fuel security intensify.

A two-day “Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific” opened in Manila on 7 July to look at overseas leases or purchases of farmland in developing countries.

ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment

Quieren reglamentar reparto de tierras de los países ricos en las naciones pobres.