Senador Ernesto Agazzi, Senador Eber da Rosa, Ing. Diego Piñeiro y Daniel Marsiglia en La sed y el agua

The Chinese Embassy in Wellington wheeled out a government spokesman today in a rare move, to tell New Zealanders they have nothing to fear from Chinese farmland investments.

Small farmers are the backbone of worldwide food production. But their existence is endangered because their governments are leasing large tracts of land to foreign companies.

Politicians throughout the Parliament united this week to raise concerns about the level of foreign investment throughout Australia.

A new report published this week claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their traditional lands to make way for vast new industrial farming projects backed by European hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food.

En Bogotá, Colombia, se realizó un foro sobre acaparamiento de tierra y la extranjerización de la propiedad. Asistieron representantes de Ecuador, Argentina y México.

Companies in Bangladesh are planning to lease thousands of hectares of land for agriculture in some African countries. Robert Ziegler, the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute, believes that Bangladesh's food strategy will become more widespread.

Film traces the story of the current mad race for control of farmlands, and the consequences it could have if nothing is done to protect the interests of small farmers and developing countries.

Videos from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 6 - 8 April 2011

Les crises alimentaire et financière qui ont secoué le monde en 2008 ont eu un effet méconnu du public. Elles ont provoqué une incroyable course pour la mainmise sur les terres cultivables partout dans le monde.

Olivier De Schutter, Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur le droit à l'alimentation, et Prof. Harald von Witzke, Faculté de l'agriculture et de l'horticulture, Université Humboldt de Berlin.

Video of the Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice? Featuring represetatives of Rabobank, Emergent Asset Management, TIAA-CREF and Galtere Ltd).