Outspoken entrepreneur and aviator Dick Smith has bought $1 million worth of shares in Australian Agricultural Co (AAco) - Australia's second-largest landholder - because he doesn't want to sound hypocritical when he campaigns against foreign ownership of farms.

Volgens een rapport van FIAN, TNI en anderen is Europa sterk betrokken bij de aankoop van landbouwgrond en landbouw-infrastructuur. Rechtstreeks door Europese investeerders, maar ook door het Europese beleid dat leidt tot ‘land-grabs’.

Some of the major factors drawing companies from India to Africa in addition to the fertile land and natural resources are the exemption from taxes/duties, along with ample government assistance.

A proibição de compra de terras por estrangeiros começou em 2010, após parecer da Advogacia-Geral da União, em relação a Lei 5.709/71, que regula este assunto.

GRAIN examina lo que hay detrás de la fiebre por las tierras en África y revela que hay una lucha mundial por algo que, cada vez más, es considerado una mercancía más preciosa que el oro o el petróleo: el agua.

Ces soi-disant « investissements » ne sont rien de plus que le vol des territoires des peuples indigènes, des paysans et des paysannes, des pêcheurs, des éleveurs et d’autres communautés locales.

Passive indices have been replaced by new sophisticated active indices and pension fund managers like APG are investing in natural resources assets, including farmland.

En abril la Presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner anunció que el Parlamento nacional iba a tratar el proyecto de Ley sobre arrendamiento, que le iba a poner un límite a la extranjerización de la tierra y está llamada a ponerle un freno al éxodo rural.

"Los atropellos se han sucedido sin parar y aquellos maravillosos beneficios que gozarían los pueblos que se amoldarían a la nueva inversión agrícola, se han quedado en papel mojado”.

The Canadian company Stevia Nutra Corporation announced that it has entered into a “Services Provision Agreement” with Ecologica Co. Ltd, a Cambodian agro-development company, to develop largescale stevia plantations in Cambodia

“The destruction and grabbing of resources from peasants and poor people have intensified and if we are to succeed in defending our land, territory and our very future, we need to come together and identify clearly the kind of Agrarian Reform we are looking for and the strategy for which we achieve it.”

The Indonesian government’s long-discussed plan to launch a massive food estate in Merauke, Papua, in a bid to boost the nation’s food production is facing uncertainty amid land acquisition problems, a top ministry official says.