Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the US housing market’s plunge, said he is investing in farmland. “I believe that agriculture land -- productive agricultural land with water on site -- will be very valuable in the future.”
Since the food crisis of 2008, food justice activists have warned that governments in concert with multinational corporations have accelerated a worldwide "land grab" to buy up vast swaths of arable land in poor countries.
BlackRock agriculture fund manager says they are investing in companies that own land and grow crops.
Critics say Australia's Labor party has failed to come to grips with country's future food security, including the acquisition of domestic farmland by foreign investors
Interviews avec des présidents de conseils ruraux, agriculteurs et agricultrices de trois régions du Sénégal.
A behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to protect their livelihoods, as US-owned Dominion Farms takes their lands.
Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.
Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.
"The land rights of the poor defenseless indigenous person is the biggest peace initiative of today and it’s the biggest climate issue of today," says Vandana Shiva
Le gouvernement français vient de publier un rapport sur les cessions de terres agricoles, dans les pays du Sud, aux investisseurs étrangers
Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global, says the company has acquired a very large piece of land in Ethiopia and has started agricultural production from it.
