Rather than participating in the race for farmland overseas, Japan should concentrate on raising its food self-sufficiency rate, which is now at about 40 percent.

Private Saudi firm Planet Food World (PFWC) will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit said.

A state-affiliated Kuwaiti company is set to join a growing list of entities from the oil-rich Gulf looking at investments in Asian agricultural land.

Most of the recent farmland sales in Uruguy can be traced to money looking for safe havens, given the world financial crisis, and not necessarily increasing production.

Tokyo is now preparing to expand Official development assistance to support agricultural technology innovations and improve social infrastructure in such areas, which in turn could help activate private agricultural investment

Abdulaye Wade says there is nothing wrong with leasing land: Saudi Arabia is already in Senegal and China is close to a deal with farmers' groups to use 100,000 ha for growing peanuts.

In Benin, the race to buy land is on! States, corporations, multinationals and investment funds are hungry for farmland.

Le G8 entend mettre un peu d'ordre et de principes dans la ruée mondiale sur les terres arables des pays du sud, à défaut de pouvoir s'immiscer dans les transactions qui privent les populations des terres dont elles dépendent.

El G-8 espera regular con algún tipo de normas las grandes compras de tierras de labranza en países en desarrollo, que ya provocaron la transferencia de propiedad de 15 a 20 millones de hectáreas en detrimento de los agricultores y del abastecimiento de los mercados locales.

Le Bénin, l'un des rares pays à avoir échappé aux émeutes de la faim en 2008, subit aujourd'hui les méfaits de l'agrobusiness. La pression foncière y est particulièrement forte, notamment pour les paysans béninois, obligés de vendre.

En los últimos años la agricultura viene pasando por una etapa de transición que, según el analista Reynaldo Trinidad, viene siendo perjudicial para los pequeños agricultores y favorece directamente a las grandes corporaciones, en lo que sería una “nueva reforma”, que podría poner en peligro la seguridad alimentaria del país.

Cambodia is experiencing what's been called an epidemic of land grabbing. Huge tracts of the country have been granted to private companies for large scale agriculture or other purposes.