Desde a última grande crise alimentar, governos e empresas de nações ricas têm comprado ou arrendado terras férteis de países em desenvolvimento, em especial na África. Benefícios desses negócios para as populações locais? Poucos ou nenhum.

Cambodia's Land Management Minister intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers and a South Korean agribusiness firmn, announcing that the lands would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents.

Trade deal with South Korea cuts the value of Australian farmland purchases that attract scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board from $53 million to $15m.

Le projet d’agrobusiness de Daewoo Logistics qui envisageait un bail emphytéotique de 99 ans sur 1,3 m d’hectares au Madagascar en 2008 revient dans les actualités.

Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.

Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.

North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said

Korean diplomats are working hard to help Daewoo Logistics regain a huge land deal it lost after a 2009 coup d’etat in the island nation in anticipation of new elections slated for the first half of this year, according to Viru News

Alors que de nouvelles menaces lourdes pèsent ainsi sur les terres malgaches, les investisseurs connus dont les projets ont déjà été rejetés par les Malgaches continuent d’agir.

Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim

“Moving beyond misconceptions: Korean investment in Cambodia” is a series of three reports. It comprises a critical review of Korean investment in Cambodia as well as two extensive investment case studies, one in mining (Kenertec) and the other in agri-business (MH Ethanol).

Government of South Korea's 10 year plan for expanding Korean agribusiness outside of Korea through overseas agricultural development.