En Asie, Afrique et Amérique latine, les mouvements paysans mènent des dynamiques soutenues de contestation.

Several farmers in Latvia report incidents with foreign entities that offer farmers highly complex land rental agreements where, should farmers fail to meet certain contractual provisions, they can lose the land.

Land grabbing is an expression of the dominant development model based on production and consumption patterns in which financial capital reigns.

Wrobel was CEO of Herakles Farms, which had sought to build palm oil farms in Cameroon.

Peasant movements are resisting this assault on their lands and fighting to transform the system.

Fund sells large scale pork farm in Russia to Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is buying a portfolio of Saskatchewan farms, with the $128-million purchase of Assiniboia Farmland LP.

Emerging regional powers’ in the South have produced powerful finance capitalists such as the Egyptian firm, Citadel Capital. Allied with global governance institutions, such firms represent greater control over vital resources and distribution routes for private wealth accumulation

La Plenaria del Senado aprobó en segundo debate un proyecto de ley que controla y pone límites a la adquisición de tierras por parte de extranjeros.

Grandes corporaciones, especialmente chinas y saudíes, están comprando enormes extensiones de tierra en países africanos.

La police sierra-léonaise a ouvert le feu, le 10 décembre, sur des manifestants armés, protestant contre un projet d'expansion d’un projet de culture d'huile de palme de la Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin), a déclaré un responsable de la police.

Bloomberg reports that a Colombian government plan to help Cargill and other investors acquire farmland was possibly killed by the FARC, meeting with officials for peace talks 1,400 miles away in Havana.