• El nuevo acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina
    • GRAIN
    • 09 Mar 2010

    Inversionistas extranjeros han acaparado en pocos años millones de hectáreas de tierras de cultivo en América Latina para producir cultivos alimentarios o agrocombustibles y exportarlos. Gran parte del dinero proviene de fondos de pensión, bancos, grupos de inversión privada de Europa y Estados Unidos, o de individuos acaudalados como George Soros, y fluye a través de mecanismos de inversión en tierras de cultivo puestos a operar mediante compañías extranjeras y locales.

  • Food estate feared to marginalize Papuans
    • Jakarta Post
    • 09 Mar 2010

    A planned large-scale food production system in Merauke, Papua province, aimed at improving national food sustainability, could prove detrimental for locals, an activist says.

  • Rausing company pays EUR 8.2mn for arable land in Romania
    • UkrAgroConsult
    • 08 Mar 2010

    Ingleby Agricultura, controlled by the Rausing family, paid EUR 8.2mn for purchasing 2,000ha of arable land in Western Romania from Danish company FirstFarms

  • Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding
    • Australian Financial Review
    • 08 Mar 2010

    Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian ­agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.

  • The Foreign Land Grab Part 1: Food insecurity
    • The Casual Truth
    • 08 Mar 2010

    In the past two years there has been a remarkable increase in purchases of large-scale farmland by foreigners throughout Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.

  • UK buyout firm launches agriculture fund
    • Financial News
    • 08 Mar 2010

    SilverStreet Capital aims to raise $100m to buy farms in South Africa growing produce including corn, wheat, soya beans, fruit and tea. It will also target aquaculture.

  • Kuwait hunts for agro-food investments in Turkey
    • Reuters
    • 08 Mar 2010

    Kuwaiti firms and other Gulf Cooperation Council members are looking to invest in agriculture and food in Turkey, and could sign a number of contacts this year, the head of Turkey's investment agency said on Sunday.

  • How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
    • The Guardian
    • 07 Mar 2010

    An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens

  • Selling off the heart of our nation
    • Daily Telegraph
    • 07 Mar 2010

    Saudi Arabia, along with Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, want to buy more than $1 billion worth of Aussie farmland in a 21st century land grab.

  • Land grabbing in Latin America
    • GRAIN
    • 05 Mar 2010

    Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories

  • CETIM : Droit à l'alimentation et acquisitions et locations de terres à grande échelle
    • CETIM
    • 05 Mar 2010

    "Nous proposons l'interdiction pure et simple des achats et locations de terres à grande échelle ou à défaut la proclamation d'un moratoire à ces pratiques," dit la déclaration écrite conjointe du CETIM, MRAP, AIJD, Association Africaine d'Education pour le Développement et WILPF à l'ONU

  • Activists say Papua food estate ‘not the answer’
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 04 Mar 2010

    "If the government wants to eliminate famine, it should give farmers access to more land, and not give it away for corporations"

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