News of progress on the massive Merauke food estate in Papua indicates growing momentum behind Indonesia’s attempts to boost its agricultural output through promoting investment and harnessing technology.

The morality of the global land rush is finely balanced and even the World Bank appears deeply torn.

The EAC food security strategy advises partner states to “resist leasing or selling large chunks of land to foreign entities for food production or bio-fuels solely for export.”

Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".

The anxiety expressed in some farming quarters and the daily media about Australian farms becoming dominated by foreign corporations and governments fails to recognise that the coming and going of overseas investors has always been part of rural property transactions.

Los acuerdos son motivados por las demandas agroalimentarias, agroindustriales y bioenergéticas de China

El primer número del Boletín Nyeleni contiene una edición especial sobre el tema de la tierra

SLC, whose crops cover 223,000 hectares, will sell a 49 percent slice of the new company, Land Co., to local or foreign investors that may include sovereign and pension funds

Contract is for 10,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.

International investors from Britain to South Africa have begun putting money into infrastructure development and transport, and about 200 exiled Zimbabwean farmers have taken leases from the Zambian government to develop farmland in the country.

Ce bulletin entend apporter une petite pierre à l’édifice de résistance qui sera bâti pour faire échec à aux multinationales, à la banque mondiale et leurs alliés. Nous encourageons toutes les organisations et tous les mouvements engagés pour la souveraineté alimentaire à s'embarquer avec nous pour ce grand voyage.

This newsletter aims to bring a small stone to the edifice of resistance that will be built to counteract transnational corporations, the World Bank and their allies. We urge all organizations and all movements committed to the struggle for food sovereignty to embark with us on this journey.