The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.

A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.

AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.

Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament

Ibrahima Coulibaly est le président de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali. En marge de la rencontre organisée en juillet 2011 par l’Alliance Internationale Terre Citoyenne, où la question de l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles était au cœur des débats, il a accepté de se confier à l’IPAR.

While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.

A group of institutional investors representing US$1.3 trillion in assets have today launched the Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland (the “Farmland Principles”).

En proposant d’injecter 2,5 milliards de dollars (1,7 milliard d’euros) dans le secteur agricole du continent noir, les géants indiens de l’agroalimentaire s’apprêtent à battre le record des deals agricoles signés en Afrique au cours des cinquante dernières années.

El 27 de abril al mediodía, en la Casa de Gobierno, la presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner anunció el envío al Congreso de un proyecto de ley para regular la venta de tierras a extranjeros.

Karuturi Global plans to plant 20,000 hectares of land with Sorghum, rice, maize, sunflower and soybeans in Bako area of Oromia regional state and Gambella regional state, by November 2011

As Indian businessmen bet on cash crops, it’s unclear whether food security issues are being tackled

The debate on large scale land acquisition in Tanzania is far from over as there is a changing dynamic now as local investors team up in joint venture with foreign investors and we are made to believe that since we have one of our own in the investment venture our interests are taken care of.