According to BlackRock world agriculture fund portfolio manager and director Desmond Cheung there is a "wall of money" that is looking to back the world's growing appetite for a stable and growing food supply.

When the Ethiopian government completes the Gibe III dam on the upper Omo, as it is expected to do shortly, large-scale irrigation will follow, allowing government sugar plantations to gobble up huge swathes of their ancestral land.

Pour Clara Jamart, « des banques telles que la BNP Paribas, la Société générale et le Crédit agricole financent largement la production d'agrocarburants, et se rendent complices de l'augmentation des prix alimentaires et des dynamiques d'accaparement de terres dans les pays du sud. »

The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) has observed that unfair government policies and ignorance of land rights and values have escalated the problem of land grabbing by investors in the country.

A new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network shows that land grabbing and access to land are a critical issues today in Europe.

Ce rapport révèle le scandale tenu secret que seulement 3% des propriétaires terriens sont arrivés à contrôler la moitié des terres cultivables en Europe.

Radiografía de uno de los grupos económicos más poderosos, poseedor de cientos de miles de hectáreas en el país y la región, y dueño del imperio inmobiliario más grande de la Argentina. Sus propiedades, historia y vínculos con el poder.

« Protéger les communautés locales, les femmes et les minorités contre l’accaparement des terres » c’est le thème de cette importante rencontre organisée du 10 au 12 avril 2013.

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A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.

La condamnation de Marc Ona Essangui, leader de la société civile gabonaise, a une peine de six mois de prison avec sursis et au paiement d’une amende de 5 millions de francs cfa a suscité une levée de boucliers hors des frontières gabonaises.

Tras 10 largos años de pelea, un juez ugandés finalmente se ha pronunciado dando la razón a 400 familias campesinas a quienes echaron, pegaron y arrebataron sus tierras para cederlas a una multinacional alemana de café, Neuman Kaffee Gruppe.

Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.

As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.