• Land grabbing: The new scramble for Africa
    • Kontext TV
    • 28 Mar 2011

    Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.

  • Nova lei de terras 'esfria' interesse de americanos no agronegócio brasileiro
    • Globo
    • 10 Mar 2011

    O governo prepara a flexibilização de tais restrições, já que o objetivo é apenas barrar movimento especulativo com a terra brasileira, como a compra de lotes por fundos de investimento ou investidores que não têm foco na produção.

  • Clarity and UAE investors launch first agricultural project in Macedonia
    • Zawya
    • 08 Mar 2011

    The company is currently looking at concluding another deal in Africa as well as other opportunities on behalf of regional investors for large scale production of crops in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

  • Germans buy 3314ha of dairy land
    • Stuff
    • 01 February 2011

    German investors have splashed out more than $100 million in a month buying thousands of hectares of dairying land in the South Island.

  • German interests buy into New Zealand dairy farms
    • M&C
    • 31 January 2011

    German investors have bought 11 dairy farms covering more than 3,600 hectares in New Zealand's South Island

  • Multinational eyes farmland
    • Sunshine Coast Daily
    • 13 January 2011

    Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?

  • Danes quit UK for home after land prices tumble
    • FWI
    • 10 December 2010

    Some Danish farmland investors are quitting the UK after seeing land prices rise here and tumble at home over the past few years.

  • The investor takeover of farmland
    • Deutsche Welle
    • 12 November 2010

    Investors have found a new target -- farmland in eastern Germany. As a result, the price of agricultural land there has soared by up to 100 percent. Many farmers are concerned about their survival after their current lease agreements run out in two years.

  • Report Mainz: Brutale Landnahme
    • YouTube
    • 08 November 2010

    Wie sich DWS-Fonds der Deutschen Bank am "Land Crapping" beteiligen

  • German investment funds involved in land grabbing
    • FIAN
    • 25 October 2010

    Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.

  • Konferenz BodenLos Wem gehört das Land? Wer hat Zugang? Wie schützen wir es vor Spekulanten?
    • Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
    • 30 September 2010

    Wie kann der verhängnisvolle Trend einer immer stärkeren Land- und Machtkonzentration in den Händen weniger Besitzer gestoppt werden?

  • Großflächige Landnahme für die Bundesregierung kein Thema
    • Die Linke
    • 20 August 2010

    „Weltweit hungern mittlerweile über eine Milliarde Menschen – ein Grund dafür sind großflächige Landnahmen. Deshalb stellen diese für die Menschen in den armen Ländern dieser Welt eine große Bedrohung dar. Doch die Bunderegierung ist nicht nur uniformiert, sondern auch desinteressiert “, stellt Niema Movassat, Mitglied im Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung für die Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE mit Bedauern fest.

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