L'adoption de directives internationales pour réglementer les soi-disant accaparements des terres a été repoussée à l'année prochaine après l’échec des négociateurs qui n'ont pas pu s'entendre sur les conditions pour les investissements fonciers à grande échelle, ainsi que leur application.

Lao Indochina Group, which grows cassava on about 7,700 hectares of land in three provinces in Laos, is mobilising investment funds to expand business.

Designated Drylands Ambassador for the UN's Convention for Combating Desertification says the concerns around land grabbing are valid and very serious.

In addition to the potential ethical issues, many investors were disappointed by the returns from early farmland investments.

In August 2011, Phatisa concluded its first transaction to invest US$ 10 million alongside the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Limited (FINNFUND) and the Company’s Sponsors, in Goldtree a palm oil plantation and milling company in Sierra Leone, representing a total investment of US$ 20 million.

La conferencia tendrá lugar en Sélingué del 17 al 19 de noviembre de 2011, y reunirá a casi 200 campesinos/as afectados/as por acaparamiento de tierras

Anuradha Mittal of Oakland Institute speaking on land grabs at Moana Nui, November 2011

Corporate agriculture is not about food production or satisfying the needs of the undernourished or downright starving but about producing profit. How long can it be before its limits are reached?

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US government’s development finance institution, approved Wednesday a $150 mln financial package that will go to Citadel Capital, a regional private equity firm that just completed its first wheat harvest in Sudan.

The Dominion Farms at Yala Swamp, Kenya has seen the local community turn against what they initially welcomed with open hands.

Pastoralists yesterday told Prince Charles that foreigners were acquiring huge tracts of land in many areas across Africa for cultivating biofuel plants and for caring out conservation programmes at the expense of the indigenous people who were left landless.

Commodities trader Jim Rogers, known for his investment prowess alongside George Soros, is in Australia to launch a new rural land fund which is seeking to raise up to $350 million to buy farms in northern NSW