El Banco Mundial impulsa planes que facilitan los acaparamientos de tierra a nivel mundial, mientras se niega a hacer público un informe que confirma los impactos negativos de estos acuerdos comerciales en las comunidades locales.

Bunge Limited, a premier global agribusiness and food company in the US, has recently announced plans to acquire 25,000 acres in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from the local firm Acucar Guarani to grow cane for its sugar and ethanol mills.

Do we or do we not want to promote Arab agricultural integration and to foster inter Arab investments in farming?

Powerpoint presentation made by Dr. Abdullah A. Al-Obaid to an expert group meeting at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah on 2-3 May 2010.

Ghana Investment Promotion Centre is seeking investments from Qatar to the tune of $700mn, including a major deal with Hassad Food

Mr Rosslenbroich is particularly enthusiastic about agriculture, where he says Aquila has “teams travelling the world looking for farms”, with New Zealand dairy farms a speciality.

Capital flows into Africa, include farmland acquisitions by foreign investors, rose 16 percent in 2008 to a record $62 billion even as FDI that year fell 20 percent worldwide

US-based Gaiacor International has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with MITC Investments to manage and operate large farming operations in Angola.

Question - via video - to the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam on land grabbing in Ethiopia

MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands

'Codes of conduct’ as proposed by several quarters in the context of global land grab are unlikely to work in favour of the poor.

Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines

‘In order to feed a growing population with an increasing standard of living, the price of water and food must continue to rise."

Morocco plans to lease 30,000 ha of farmland per year to improve yields, satisfy growing national demand and boost export sales, its agriculture minister said on Thursday.

Saudi Arabian investors are looking to expand their agricultural investments in the United States to secure long-term food supply because of water shortages in the desert kingdom, Saudi officials said on Thursday.