Foreign investors have spent a record $12 billion buying up Australian farmland and agricultural businesses over the past year, but have put off investing a further $14 billion until the outcome of a Senate inquiry in March 2012, a new report by Ferrier Hodgson says.
Asian Peasant Coalition's press release on land grabbing in Indonesia
Argentina’s lower house of Congress has passed a bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 1,000 hectares per family. The bill must now be passed by the Senate.
What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as it steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments overseas to overcome considerable supply constraints at home.
Alongside countries like Liberia, Laos, Congo and Sierra Leone, Romania is one of the countries where foreign companies own large areas of farmland, according to a report put together by GRAIN.
Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in clients’ self-invested personal pensions (UK)
In the past few months, GRAIN staff have been participating in a range of meetings and workshops in different parts of the world on land grabbing. Here are some of the documents we prepared for these meetings.
Editor of Banking Magazine, El Tijani Hussein Al Khabeir, says that Sudan is capable of feeding one quarter of world population and five folds of Arab countries population
Farmers from Tanzania's Network of Small Scale Farmers (Mviwata) visit the Ministry of Agriculture to explain how recent development projects allocate huge pieces of land to big investors, leaving local farmers without farming land.
The global rush to acquire large amounts of land in developing countries has done more harm than good, especially to the poorest people who often lose access to land and resources essential to their livelihoods.
New fund reflects desire in Beijing to acquire real assets, including agricultural lands, say analysts.
The most comprehensive study of large land acquisitions in developing countries to date published Wednesday online by the International Land Coalition (ILC) has found more evidence of harm than benefits.
