Organizations representing local farmers, Indigenous communities, and environmentalists gathered in Corrientes to demand an end to the land-grabbing by foreign investors in the province.

For Africa’s agriculture to realize its full potential the continent’s governments need to rethink their approach to encouraging investment, Morocco’s Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch says.

Algeria started its first commercial maize production this year and will soon approve applications from foreign investors to boost output and reduce reliance on imports, the head of the country's farmers' union said.

IIDD pense que les nouveaux principes du CSA représentent un cadre normatif important pour les investissements dans l'alimentation et l'agriculture

JSF créera également de nouvelles unités de production horticole pour exportation vers le marché japonais

"L'accaparement des terres c'est peut-être pire que l'Ebola actuellement au Sénégal."

Booming industry faces allegations of human rights abuses such as land grabs, forced displacement and child labour.

Las mujeres centroamericanas relataron que los campos no solo están siendo afectados por las sequías y las inundaciones, sino también por el monocultivo, la industria extractiva y el acaparamiento de tierras.

El mismo consiste en la adquisición de terreno agrícola para destinarlo a fines comerciales como la producción de alimentos a escala agroindustrial, los agrocarburantes, las infraestructuras energéticas, la minería o las grandes estructuras.

Se trata de empresas que invierten vendiendo desarrollo cuando en la mayor parte de los casos producen justo lo contrario: expulsiones de tierras de cultivo, abusos laborales, cambios en los precios de los alimentos de mercados locales, erosión de sus medios de vida, etc.

According to the Association of Researchers in Middle East and Africa(ORDAF), political events and terror news are deliberately kept in the headlines to hide African land grabs by Western countries.

Groups from Asia and Africa issue statement to mark International Human Rights Day.

So much for the Ord as a ‘food bowl’. So much too for a new partnership with indigenous people. As in transactions with land-grabbers in poorer lands, the valued partnership now is with big money.

Al Dahra et Jenaan travaillent avec le gouvernement égyptien à la création d’une joint-venture destinée à produire du blé dans des régions désertiques en Egypte.

Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations.