L’organisation sous-régionale y a lancé un projet d’aménagement dont l’objectif est d’en faire le grenier à riz de l’Afrique de l’Ouest

Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.

Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..

Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.

A new study puts "land-grab" deals into the context of agricultural investments more generally.

Carlyle is part of a small group of investors that will inject $210 million into Export Trading Group, a Tanzania-based agricultural company that controls at least 60,000 hectares of farmland in Africa.

La Coop fédérée est toutefois préoccupée par le phénomène et réclame la mise sur pied d'un registre sur les transactions dans le milieu agricole,

Los especialistas precisaron que "el antiguo latifundio ha dado paso a grandes empresas capitalistas insertas en los circuitos del comercio internacional"

Louis Dreyfus lifted the lid on commodities operations such as its 45 orange groves, and unveiled a healthy appetite for investment, as, after 160 years, it unveiled its first public results statement.

Un nouveau rapport de la FAO fait le point sur les investissements dans les pays en développement et recommande la prudence dans les grosses acquisitions foncières.

New FAO report focuses on investments in developing countries, urging caution on large-scale land acquisitions

Report by Deutsche Bank examines the global rush for land