TIAA-CREF bets the farm

• Barron's
• 16 October 2010

The big asset manager is bullish on farmland, citing 10% returns.

UN body fails to back "land grabs" code of conduct

• Reuters
• 15 October 2010

The UN Committee on Food Security has failed to endorse a code of conduct on foreign land investments, in a blow to efforts to draft international guidelines to regulate so-called "land grabs".

Moz farmers hurt by land rush

• AFP
• 15 October 2010

When deals are struck, activists complain that large tracts of land can be sold from under communities, with protocol ignored and promises broken.

República China y Argentina (Río Negro): Convenio de entrega

• Foro Permanente por una Vida Digna
• 15 October 2010

Convenio que el Gobernador Miguel Saiz (UCR) firmara con el Estado de la República China para la entrega de 254.500 hectáreas de la Provincia de Río Negro

CFS on landgrabbing

• FAO
• 15 October 2010

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

Egypt’s conundrum over food security and the Nile’s water

• Afrik News
• 14 October 2010

The Egyptian external agricultural land deals are all the more fragile as a future government or policy change in Ethiopia or Sudan risks destabilizing their external food security strategy.

May raise Rs 450cr through PE investors: Karuturi Global

• CNBC
• 14 October 2010

Ramesh Krishnaswamy of Karuturi Global in an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18

Fund investments in food and agribusiness: Recent trends in ECA

• EastAgri
• 14 October 2010

Presentation on farmland investment funds in East Europe and Central Asia

Mauritius could hand over 2 islands to India

• Financial Express
• 14 October 2010

India and Mauritius have resumed discussions over a proposal to hand over the twin islands of Agalega to India for tourism development and possibly agriculture.

Australia should look to its food security, before all the farm is sold

• Sydney Morning Herald
• 14 October 2010

Australians are in danger of becoming servants, not masters, of their own food resources.

Land-grabbing causes hunger! Let small-scale farmers feed the world!

• Via Campesina
• 13 October 2010

It is clear that land-grabbing is an inherent part of the agribusiness model promoted by institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, IFAD, the FAO or the EU.

Qatar in talks to buy Argentina, Ukraine farmland

• Reuters
• 13 October 2010

Qatar is in preliminary talks with the governments of Argentina and Ukraine to buy farmland for cereals production, the head of the Gulf Arab state's national food security programme said on Wednesday.