Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board is looking to capitalise on favourable growing conditions and access to Asian markets having taken a 30 percent stake in the central North Island's Kaingaroa forestry estate.

“Moving beyond misconceptions: Korean investment in Cambodia” is a series of three reports. It comprises a critical review of Korean investment in Cambodia as well as two extensive investment case studies, one in mining (Kenertec) and the other in agri-business (MH Ethanol).

En Colombie, la politique d’appropriation étrangère a pu compter sur le soutien des gouvernements toujours complaisants avec ce type d’investissement.

Au Mali, de plus en plus de paysans se disent victimes d’accaparement des terres. Découvrez les témoignages de Yaya Konaré, paysan chassé de son champ, Massa Koné, militant qui défend les victimes d’accaparement, et du colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, le nouveau ministre malien de l'Administration territoriale.

A government commission formed to identify farmland ownership disputes will bring over 300 cases of land grabs to the attention of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw before the next session begins.

Mientras aumenta la concentración y extranjerización de la tierra y el gobierno muestra distintas opiniones sobre qué hacer al respecto, cada día de los últimos diez años tres establecimientos rurales tuvieron que optar por dejar el negocio.

O governante falava na capital provincial da Gaza durante a cerimónia de assinatura de memorandos de entendimento entre as empresas RBL e Wanbao, formalizando a concessão de cerca de 20 mil hectares de terra arável no Baixo Limpopo à companhia da China, que deverá explorar durante meio século.

Pétrole, charbon, minerais ou terres agricoles: les entreprises chinoises, à la recherche de matières premières, investissent massivement au Canada où le gouvernement cherche à ménager cette précieuse source de devises tout en marquant sa fermeté face à Pékin.

This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.

The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.

Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.

"If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby