What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as it steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments overseas to overcome considerable supply constraints at home.

Alongside countries like Liberia, Laos, Congo and Sierra Leone, Romania is one of the countries where foreign companies own large areas of farmland, according to a report put together by GRAIN.

Tras obtener el aval en comisión, el proyecto se discutió en Diputados durante la madrugada de este viernes. Y hubo acuerdo para dar la media sanción. El marco incorpora cambios en cuanto a la cantidad de tierras en venta y lo que podrá adquirir un inversor foráneo.

En los últimos meses desde GRAIN hemos estado participando en una serie de reuniones y talleres en diferentes partes del mundo sobre acaparamiento de tierras. Compartimos algunos de los documentos que hemos preparado para estas reuniones.

Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in clients’ self-invested personal pensions (UK)

In the past few months, GRAIN staff have been participating in a range of meetings and workshops in different parts of the world on land grabbing. Here are some of the documents we prepared for these meetings.

Au cours des derniers mois, GRAIN a participé à une série de réunions et d’ateliers sur l’accaparement de terres dans différentes parties du monde. Voici quelques documents préparés pour ces rencontres.

Editor of Banking Magazine, El Tijani Hussein Al Khabeir, says that Sudan is capable of feeding one quarter of world population and five folds of Arab countries population

Les femmes africaines doivent engager le combat pour leur accès aux terres cultivables.

Las organizaciones económicas campesinas, indígenas y originarias (Oecas) plantearon el martes en Cochabamba una ley para prohibir la 'extranjerización de tierras en Bolivia

Farmers from Tanzania's Network of Small Scale Farmers (Mviwata) visit the Ministry of Agriculture to explain how recent development projects allocate huge pieces of land to big investors, leaving local farmers without farming land.

The global rush to acquire large amounts of land in developing countries has done more harm than good, especially to the poorest people who often lose access to land and resources essential to their livelihoods.