The farmers of the National Coordination of Farming Organizations (CNOP) in Mali and the international farmers’ movement Via Campesina hereby invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against the land grabs which are rife in Africa and other parts of the world.

The Global Economic Symposium, to be held 4-6 October in Kiel, Germany, will have a special session on land grabbing called "Dealing with the Race for Agricultural Land"

Global AgInvesting 2011 will bring together leading global ag-sector end-investors, ag-managers, academics, policy experts and agribusiness industry executives to explore the opportunities and challenges of investing in agriculture.

Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice?

The focus of the conference was on the politics of global land grabbing and agrarian change. The papers and panels address some of the most urgent and strategic questions around global land grab.

HighQuest Partners LLC is pleased to announce that it will expand its sucessful Global AgInvesting conference series, the leading conference worldwide focused on the agriculture asset class. Global AgInvesting Europe 2010 will be held on November 9-10, 2010 at the Intercontinental Geneva Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ce juteux secteur attire évidemment les convoitises et les investisseurs n’hésitent pas à faire campagne ! Comme ces 9 et 10 novembre prochain à l’Hôtel Intercontinental à Genève. Global AGInvesting Europe 2010 (www.globalaginvesting.com) y organise une conférence pour promouvoir les stratégies en investissements agricoles.

Official documents from the 36th session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (Rome 11-16 October 2010) concerning their discussion of landgrabbing

“Large Scale Farming in Africa” is an international conference, which meets on 20-21 Apr 2010 in Cairo to explore upcoming investment opportunities in Africa’s agriculture sector, and discuss risk management and financing solutions.

Land Day will zero in on land and associated agro-industry related global challenges with a long-term rural development perspective.