"The Big Banana" shows the effects of an export banana plantation on the Mungo area of Cameroon

The government of Bangladesh has taken a fresh move to re-evaluate the proposed contract farming agreement for food-grain production in Africa to meet the country's demand.

Mozambique invites Brazilian soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the head of Mato Grosso state's cotton producers association Ampa said on Monday.

Así lo solicitó Cristina Kirchner a la oposición en una sorpresiva conferencia de prensa que brindó este mediodía.

En Bolivia “hay un progresivo acaparamiento extranjero de las mejores tierras agrícolas, especialmente por parte de ciudadanos brasileros y argentinos”, según un estudio elaborado por la Fundación Tierra.

El Gobierno de Mozambique ofreció una gran extensión de tierras baratas a agricultores brasileños para que cultiven soja, maíz y algodón, informó hoy una fuente oficial del país africano citada por el diario Folha de São Paulo.

O governo de Moçambique está oferecendo uma área de 6 milhões de hectares - equivalente a três Sergipes- para que agricultores brasileiros plantem soja, algodão e milho no norte do país.

Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".

A number of growers in the Great Southern have been approached by a prominent Chinese company with offers to buy farms.

Russia is offering agricultural land to Southeast Asian nations to grow crops and help secure reliable food supplies, part of wider efforts to foster trade and investment ties in new markets.

Les terres africaines doivent être protégées de l'accaparement croissant par des investisseurs étrangers.

Le mot « accapareur » était déjà utilisé avant la Révolution Française de 1789. Il désignait ceux qui entretenaient la famine pour s’enrichir par le marché noir, un des éléments déclencheurs de la Révolution.