The process of buying up large swathes of farmland in foreign countries is politically sensitive, but "beggars can't be choosers" says a senior executive at a leading Middle Eastern food commodities trading firm

De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers

Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.

Groups issue sign-on letter calling on the World Bank to stop funding oil palm plantations.

Expanding the acreage of organically farmed land to 20% would increase the EU's virtual land importation by 30%. And policies to achieve the EU’s 10% biofuel objective would also increase the rate of EU land-grabs.

A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013

Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.

AgroGeneration, groupe agricole spécialisé dans la production de céréales et d’oléagineux en Ukraine, a produit 55 000 tonnes de céréales (blé, maïs, orge, colza, tournesol) en 2009, contre 18 000 tonnes un an plus tôt.

Foreign donors are promoting land registration in Papua New Guinea to facilitate a farmland grab, under the guise of agricultural development.

Immediate projects to be promoted under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund might concern livestock production in the East Coast Economic Region, according to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Les craintes soulevées par la possible vente massive de terres agricoles du Québec à des intérêts chinois sont exagérées selon une étude du Mouvement Desjardins.

A new report argues that the EU has become the world's largest net importer of agricultural produce, and therefore the largest user of agricultural land that is not its own.