Hundreds of Lamu farmers are up in arms against chiefs and district officers they claim collude with unscrupulous buyers to sell off their land.

El foro se desarrollará en las ciudades de Bogotá y Cali los días 9 y 10 de junio y contará con la participación de dos expertos internacionales, quienes presentarán el fenómeno de la extranjerización de tierras desde una perspectiva global y regional, además del caso de Colombia y la crisis alimentaria mundial.

“We have opened a new page with the Egyptian government,” Alwaleed said at a news conference with Egyptian PM Essam Sharaf. “We call on Arab and international investors to return to Egypt as soon as possible.”

Moçambique já regista "focos de conflitos" entre a população e investidores estrangeiros no acesso à terra, devido às cumplicidades entre as elites locais e o grande capital na exploração dos recursos naturais, considera o economista moçambicano João Mosca.

"The world is running out of farm land quite rapidly and farm land is going to be a very, very precious commodity in time to come. ... Australians are pretty dozy and comfortable on this issue," says Julian Cribb.

KADCO, part of Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co, now owns 10,000 feddans [more than 10,000 ha] in southern Egypt while cultivating another 15,000 feddans that it will get ownership of at a later date.

Moçambique é um dos alvos principais da "corrida à terra" por investimentos estrangeiros no continente africano, com a China e a Suécia à frente dos principais projetos, revelou hoje em Lisboa a Coligação para o Diálogo Sobre África (CoDA).

Selon Ye Anping, du ministère chinois de l'Agriculture, l'achat de terres par les entreprises chinoises locales à l'étranger n'a aucun rapport avec les politiques du ministère de l'Agriculture de la Chine. Il s'agit d'un acte individuel de ces entreprises et d'une activité économique.

Land is a powerful commodity that should be used for the betterment of humanity through farming and ecology.

El 10 de junio de 2011, la junta directiva de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI) del Banco Mundial tiene previsto decidir sobre la conveniencia de ofrecer un préstamo esencial para Calyx Agro Ltd.

The focus of Aabar on farming investments comes as Gulf nations, including Abu Dhabi, plan billions of dollars of investments in global food supply and infrastructure as they guard against price shocks and supply shortages in core resources.

A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking. Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent, acquiring huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home.