Kiribati President Anote Tong says there are no plans to begin moving people to the newly-purchased 2,200 ha of land in Fiji. The estate is rich agricultural land and its role is more likely to be for food security.

Southeast Asia has become ever more appealing to investors from both within and beyond the region seeking to include agriculture in their portfolios.

Fonterra will develop two new dairy farms in China, increasing to five the number of farms the co-operative has in the country, while, the NZ Government is expected to announce any day whether Shanghai Pengxin can buy the 8000ha Crafar dairy farms.

We hear from Liberia, where foreign investment is finally starting to flood in after years of civil war. Big international companies are arriving and taking over vast areas of the country - in a move some local farmers and activists describe as a land grab.

Although the downfall of President Ravalomanana brought the Daewoo project to a halt, it did not end foreign investors' attempts to acquire land in Madagascar.

Negocian un acuerdo para llevar riego a zonas del sur a cambio de granos. Es un proyecto similar al polémico acuerdo firmado con Río Negro en 2011

According to worldbankpresident.org, Nigeria's finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - not exactly a foe of land grabbing - may be in the lead to become the next president of the World Bank.

Un collectif d’associations finistériennes, étroitement liées au milieu agricole et rural, s’indigne contre « les accaparements de terres par de gros investisseurs, souvent pour y produire des agrocarburants et du soja destiné à l’Europe ».

Le Bulletin Nyéléni Nº 9 sur l'accaparement des terres, specialment préparé pour la Journée Internationale des Luttes Paysannes le 17 avril, est maintenant disponible

Nyéléni Newsletter Nº 9, prepared specially for the International Day of Peasant Struggle on 17 April, is on land grabbing.

Two key areas requiring urgent attention are global agricultural norms and financialization.

Economistas del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y el Banco Mundial (BM) manifestaron su preocupación por la creciente extranjerización de tierras en países con alto potencial de producción agrícola.