Global AgInvesting 2012 is produced by global agribusiness consultancy, HighQuest Partners, and will provide attendees with a picture of the agriculture investing landscape and a clear idea of where the real money is moving in the space. Global AgInvesting will explain the myriad of variables for positively directing investments in agriculture, such as a growing world population, improving diets in the developing world, and new demand for biomass feed stocks, and bring them into perspective for evaluation by attendees.

World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC, 23-26 April 2012
The Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty each year brings together representatives from governments, civil society, academia, the private sector and the development community to discuss issues of concern to land practitioners and policymakers worldwide.

Maison des Arts et Café du Grütli, Rue du Général Dufour 16, 1204 Genève
19h30: En collaboration avec Food First Information and Action Netword Suisse (FIAN), une discussion avec les intervenants suivants: • Alexis Marant, réalisateur • Sjoerd Wartena, Président à Terre de Liens • J. Coast Sullenger, Directeur, GAIA Capital Advisor • Sandra Ratjen, membre du Comité FIAN Suisse • Marylaure Crettaz Corredor, Agriculture & Rural Development Network, Global Food Security, DDC
21h00: Documentaire "Planète à vendre", Alexis Marant / France / 2010 / 90' / CAPA - ARTE / Ce documentaire montre la folle course entamée par les pays riches et émergents il y a trois ans pour la mainmise sur les terres arables dans les pays du Sud

Rural women's rights to access and control over land and resources are hampered by aggressive corporate control and gender disparities. The session is an opportunity for sharing of struggles, lessons and key strategies from women's movements who resisted corporate control and asserted their rights to their land, resources and livelihood.

La Via Campesina calls on all of its members and allies, fisher-folk movements, agricultural workers organizations, students and environmental groups, women organizations and social justice movements to organize actions around the world on April 17 in order to display massive popular resistance to land grabbing and highlight the struggle against corporate control over land and natural resources.

A l’occasion de la journée internationale des luttes paysannes, le Collectif français contre les accaparements de terres a le plaisir de vous convier à une conférence-débat sur le thème : LES ACCAPAREMENTS DE TERRES - EVOLUTIONS DU PHENOMENE ET MOBILISATIONS DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX de 20:00 à 23:00, Espace FIAP Jean Monnet 30 Rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris (métro Glacière, ligne 6, ou Mouton-Duvernet, ligne 4)

Workshop organized by Cambodia Research Group, VU University Amsterdam
Phnom Penh, 4-5 April 2012
Guidelines for submission of papers and more information: http://www.fsw.vu.nl/en/Images/CallforPapersLandrush%26DemocracyApril2012_tcm31-253868.pdf

The School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa will be hosting a high-profile roundtable discussion on March 28th from 9am-12pm that will feature a panel of experts discussing the scale and deleterious impacts of land acquisitions, particularly in Africa. Venure: Desmarais, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 3120. Contact: [email protected]

Thursday 15 March from 10am to 12.30pm, Docks des Suds B, Alternative World Water Forum, Marseille
Agribusinesses are expanding and taking over control over water resources, buying the right to exploit land and water resources. This leads and will lead to water battles between people that see their rights to water reduced and the agribusinesses that accumulate water.
We will promote and show real solutions towards resilient agriculture, food, energy and water systems from a water justice perspective. This should raise awareness that equitable and ecologically sustainable water governance system is a cornerstone for realizing not only right to water but also climate justice and the right to food.

Welcome to AgReturn San Francisco 2012, a new kind of agriculture investment conference--one that embraces the surrounding themes of agriculture, real assets, and scarcity-driven investments. For the first time, we will deliver fully comprehensive strategy discussion on everything from public equities to innovations in inputs, precision technology and animal health, to mature markets farmland plays, water rights and efficiency. This is a one-stop commercial marketplace for the industry. Make sure this event is on your calendar for 2012.