• Buying of developing countries' farmland slows: UN
    • Reuters
    • 17 November 2009

    The bad publicity farmland acquisitions generated is putting off buyers, especially short-term investors, UN food and farm agencies experts said at an international food security forum.

  • Agri-business slammed: ITA
    • AFP
    • 17 November 2009

    Multinational food companies have come under fire for buying up farmland in developing countries by activists holding a forum in parallel to the UN Hunger Summit.

  • FAO: les multinationales accusées de chasser les paysans de leurs terres
    • AFP
    • 17 November 2009

    Plusieurs ONG ont accusé les multinationales de l'alimentaire de chercher à s'emparer de millions d'hectares de terres de bonne qualité appartenant aux petits paysans du tiers monde, lors du sommet de la FAO sur la sécurité alimentaire à Rome.

  • UN softens stand on rush to buy farmland
    • Globe and Mail
    • 17 November 2009

    Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi calls it the “new feudalism.” Groups representing peasant farmers call it “land grabs.” The United Nations literature dispersed at this week's UN food summit in Rome calls it “direct foreign investment.”

  • Regulations for farmland acquisitions are years away, UN officials say
    • Circle of Blue
    • 17 November 2009

    A strong set of guidelines for land acquisitions abroad could take years, but is necessary for protecting the interests of small farmers, political leaders said.

  • Farmers not invited to Food Summit?
    • IPS
    • 16 November 2009

    World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.

  • Food industry debates fight against hunger
    • AFP
    • 15 November 2009

    The private sector can play a key role in the fight against hunger, but humanitarian groups accuse multi-nationals of mounting an "offensive" to take over the agricultural sector in the developing world.

  • Campesinos y movimientos sociales dicen no al acaparamiento de tierra
    • Via Campesina & GRAIN
    • 13 November 2009

    Del 13 al 17 de noviembre de 2009, representantes de organizaciones campesinas y movimientos sociales que han participado directamente en la lucha contra esta nueva ola de apropiación global de tierras, confluirán en Roma.

  • Les paysans et les mouvements sociaux disent non à l'accaparement des terres
    • Via Campesina & GRAIN
    • 13 November 2009

    Du 13 au 17 novembre 2009, des représentants des organisations paysannes et des mouvements sociaux qui sont directement impliqués dans les luttes contre cette nouvelle vague d’accaparement des terres seront à Rome.

  • Farmers and social movements say no to land grabbing
    • Via Campesina & GRAIN
    • 13 November 2009

    From 13-17 November 2009, representatives from peasant organisations and social movements that have been directly involved in struggles against this new wave of global land grabbing will be in Rome.

  • Foreign direct investment – win-win or land grab? [EN, FR, ES, AR]
    • FAO
    • 10 November 2009

    Issue paper by FAO for the World Summit on Food Security, Rome, 16-18 November 2009

  • UN attempts to slow the new scramble for Africa
    • The Independent
    • 07 November 2009

    More than 50 heads of state will gather for a summit later this month to look at ways of policing the extraordinary "land grab" that has seen richer countries buy up at least 20m ha of farmland in Africa in the last 18 months.

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