Foreign investors are increasingly focusing on opportunities in Turkish agriculture, according to Mehmet Erdo?an, chairman of Sezon Pirinç, a rice company

The World Bank appears deeply torn. While the report endorses the Bank's open-door globalisation agenda, the sub-text dissents on every page.

En eux-mêmes, ces investissements ne sont pas forcément mauvais, note la Banque mondiale. Mais dans les faits, ils s’effectuent dans des conditions «très souvent» désastreuses pour les populations locales.

Egypt will soon offer to lease, for 49 years, 50,000 feddans [21,000 ha] for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the irrigation minister said -- but only to domestic investors.

"I know you will think why should President Obama meddle in the affairs of other countries," writes Devlinder Sharma. "I agree, but at least he can stop the American agribiz and finance companies from indulging in offshore farmland grab."

Le Briefing régional sur le développement rural en Afrique Centrale « Accès à la terre, acquisitions de terres et développement rural: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles opportunités » se tiendra à Yaoundé, Cameroun, les 27 et 28 septembre 2010

A CTA Rural Development Briefing in Central Africa on “Land access, land acquisitions and rural development: New challenges, new opportunities” will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroun, on 27-28th September 2010

While the Bank warns of a lack of transparency and the potential harm to poor people, it ultimately endorses the land grabs in the name of productivity and sound investment.

In a 164-page report that actually endorses the practice of the sale of vast tracts of agricultural land to foreign buyers, the global lender nevertheless frets over the fall-out of northern legislation that makes investors view every farm, jungle and meadow in the third world the same way they view an oil field, says the EU Observer

En la Comisión Agraria del Congreso Peruano existen dos proyectos de ley que buscan limitar la concentración de tierras en pocas manos: uno establece un límite máximo de adquisición de 40 mil hectáreas agrícolas, otro de 10 mil.

El Banco Mundial (BM) pidió la aplicación de controles más estrictos a la compra de grandes extensiones de tierra agrícola en países en desarrollo.

"L'urgence n'est pas de multiplier sur l'ensemble de la planète un modèle unique agro-industriel qui a fait faillite. Il faut au contraire lancer un programme international en faveur de l'agriculture familiale," s'exclame Jose Bové du Parlement Européen