Since Jane Mendillo took over the endowment in July 2008, Harvard’s holdings of forests, farms and other natural resources in Brazil as well as in New Zealand and Romania have grown to about 10 percent of the portfolio -- more than $3 billion -- and she wants to add more.

Countries with poor protection of land rights are magnets for land deals – most of which are to grow crops that can be used for biofuels – which means that many land deals for biofuel production are ‘land grabs’, concluded without the consent of affected communities.

Extraits vidéo d'une rencontre-débat avec Samuel Nguiffo, secrétaire général du Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement du Cameroun (CED), à partir de l’analyse du giga-projet de plantation de palmier à huile Herakles

The Ethiopian government says that it will no longer impose export quotas on commercial farm outputs and processed goods as a part of its commitment for the new partnership introduced by G-8 countries that focuses on facilitating private sector investment in African agriculture.

UAE seeks to have Argentina join the ranks of other world countries such as India, USA, Canada and Brazil in becoming a primary supplier of food to the country.

The public debate about the ethics of investing in farmland is being ignored by serious investors who seem to have had no qualms about buying up large tracts of land in Africa reports the Financial Times.

Cartogram of land grabs led by foreign investors after 2006

“We need to be growing at the rate of 10,000 hectares a year to be economically viable, which is not happening,” says Sime Darby official. “Securing land has been a gruelling process.”

Des organisations sociales se disent offensées par un article du Wall Street Journal écrit par le Directeur Général de la FAO et le Président de la EBRD appelant les gouvernements à adopter le secteur privé comme moteur principal de la production alimentaire globale.

Las organizaciones sociales han expresado su sorpresa e indignación por un artículo firmado por el Director General de la FAO y el Presidente del EBRD, en el que llaman a los gobiernos y a la sociedad a abrazar al sector privado como el principal motor de la producción global de alimentos.

Social organisations are shocked and offended by a Wall Street Journal article written by the FAO Director General and EBRD President that calls on governments to embrace corporations as the main engine for global food production.

A nivel global, grandes extensiones de tierras están siendo apropiadas por la agenda ambiental, un proceso que ha encontrado gran acogida entre influyentes ONG internacionales de conservación.