Lao and Chinese businesses this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for investment in organic farming in Laos, at a cost of about US$5 million.

Des organisations de la société civile invitent les gouvernements des pays en développement à arrêter la location et la vente des terres aux entreprises transnationales parce que cela conduit à la dégradation des terres et à l'insécurité alimentaire.

"Les ressortissants chinois se sont vu atribuer d'importantes parcelles de terres agricoles pour la culture du riz, du champignon et du maïs," raconte l'ambassade des Etats Unis au Cameroun dans une dépèche de Wikileaks.

Programa The Stream exibido em 25/10/2011 pela Al Jazeera

Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.

NGOs tried to get a pronouncement in the Changwon Declaration against the continued grabbing of land throughout Africa and Asia.

Las patéticas imágenes de la hambruna en África vuelven a recorrer el mundo. Lo que no suele mencionarse es que esta calamidad esta ligada, en parte, al auge de la compra masiva de tierras por parte de empresas o Estados extranjeros, que sustituyen la agricultura familiar por grandes explotaciones destinadas a la exportación.

Russia’s VTB Capital plans $1bn agriculture fund which will begin by buying assets in Russia and Kazakhstan – from land to processing companies.

BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.

Three weeks ago, a team of Vietnamese investors and their technical advisers visited Sierra Leone to conduct feasibility studies with the aim of entering the agribusiness sector in the country.

En Patagonie, la mobilisation s’organise contre le projet d’une entreprise chinoise de cultiver 320 000 hectares de terre.

Agriterra revealed plans for further land expansion even after raising its cattle operations to about 16,700 hectares and entering the cocoa market through the acquisition of a Sierra Leone trader.