800 people in Kampong Thom province staged a protest against a Korean company that is trying to clear their trees and farmland, to produce rubber and cassava, without offering any compensation.

Les risques les plus élevés d'expropriation de terres agricoles demeurent en Amérique latine, mais l'impact le plus fort des tensions actuelles pourrait se faire sentir sur les accords de terres conclus ou projetés en Afrique.

Atama Plantation of Malaysia will invest $US300 million to develop 470,000 ha, including 180,000 ha of palm groves in northern Congo.

India's ACIL Cotton Industries said it plans to invest nearly $15 million to start contract farming of crops like coffee, pulses, oilseeds, cereals, potato, sugarcane and vegetables through lease-hold agricultural land in Brazil, Congo and Ethiopia.

Food prices are soaring again and the highest risks of farmland expropriation remain in Latin America, while the greatest impact of the recent rally could be on land deals in Africa.

Au forum de Kolongo, presque 30 témoignages ont dénoncé les violences et la non prise en compte des réalités paysannes : personnes âgées battues, une femme enceinte de 5 mois a perdu son bébé sous les coups, opacité des tractations, obstruction à l’information.

Prime Minister Azarov says Ukraine won't be able to meet its demand for food without the revision of issues related to ownership in the agricultural sector

”Argentina will welcome investment from Bahrain in its agricultural sector so it can guarantee its own food security,” Ignacio Rossi Sammartino, of the Commercial Section at the Argentine Embassy, told Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry board members.

Madagascar is drawing farmer-entrepreneurs in large numbers from India’s breadbasket, Punjab and Haryana.

Abu Dhabi acquired 30,000 ha of Sudanese farmland last June through the ADFD to grow alfalfa, a crop used to feed cattle.

Libyan officials said that they could allocate 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors for production of wheat and corn.

In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.