Farmers from Kula, Serbia block the center of the municipality with their tractors, demanding an explanation of what is behind the decision of the Ministry of Agriculture to lease 3,000 hectares of the best arable land to the UAE company Al Rawafed under the most favorable conditions.

Africa"s urban food markets will increase fourfold by 2030, and small and unlisted companies setting out to supply them hold high-yield potential for the global finance industry

La majorité noire ne possèderait que 8% des terres agricoles en Afrique du Sud. (Reuters)

Wall Street is looking for ways to invest in America’s heartland, and the government is ready to play matchmaker.

Le vignoble de Gevrey-Chambertin, acquis par un investisseur chinois en 2012. (Crédit photo : Urban - Wikimedia)

Members of Liberia's Jogbahn clan protesting against the UK oil plam company Equatorial Palm Oil, June 2014 (Photo: SDI)

Steve Fessler of Prudential Agricultural Investments, left, shows Thomas S. T. Gimbel the harvest on a farm in Watsonville, Calif. (Photo: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times)

Cerca de 3 mil famílias ocuparam, na manhã desta quinta-feira (17), a Fazenda Rio das Cobras, da empresa Araupel, entre os municípios de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu e Quedas do Iguaçu (PR). (Foto: Joka Madruga e Leandro Taques/MST)

Le président congolais, Joseph Kabila, découvre le projet d'exploitation de l'entreprise sud-africaine Africom dans une ferme de la province du Bandundu, le 15 juillet 2014. RFI/Léa-Lisa Westerhoff

Sudan's Minister of Agriculture met with the Chinese Ambassador to Sudan in July 2014 to provide reassurance that land will be provided for Chinese agricultural projects. Above, Chinese Ambassador to Sudan Li Chengwen vistis a primary school in 2009.

Peasant organisations in Davao City, the Phillipines are opposed to the government's attempts to provide foreign companies with local lands for oil palm plantations.

Food and Agribusiness Marketing Experience participants look over a map of Fonterra’s Yutian farm in Hebei Province, China. New Zealand-based Fonterra's new farming hub development in China is expected to be in production by 2017.

L’agriculteur Ali Bado récolte du riz dans son champ à Bagré, Burkina Faso (2012). Photo : Pablo Tosco/Oxfam.

Derrière le prétendu conflit de délimitation entre les Etats fédérés Afar et Somali, nous sommes persuadés que le gouvernement éthiopien cache un programme de « land grabbing » ou accaparement des terres ancestrales des Somali-Issas.

Dangote est la personne la plus riche d'Afrique, d'une valeur nette de $16.1 milliards de dollars US.

Al Rawafed CEO Mahmood Ebraheem Al Mahmood (left) and Serbian Economy Minister Dušan Vujovi? conclude deal to form a joint venture company, 80% owned by Al Rawafed, that will commence with the take over of two Serbian state farms.

The World Bank's IFC announces $250 million in debt financing to Ukraine's leading poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), which has a land bank of 320,000 ha in Ukraine and 40,000 ha in Russia. (Photo: Kyiv Post)

"Les multinationales violent le droit des gens à la simple subsistance, comme dans le cas de l’accaparement mondial des terres"

Chèvres et moutons élevés en Somaliland partent pour l'Arabie Saoudite (Source : National Geographic France, juillet 2014)

Bananalandia au Mozambique (Source: National Geographic France juillet 2014)

Plantation de Sime Darby au Liberia. (Source: National Geographic France, juilet 2014)