Oxfam lancia una campagna e i primi istituti cominciano a fare marcia indietro.

Les syndicats des fermiers mozambicains croient que bientôt la terre deviendra très rare pour les habitants puisque le gouvernement en loue de plus en plus aux agro-industries étrangères – déplaçant ainsi des milliers de communautés rurales et de petits fermiers sans titres de propriété officiels de leurs terres.

L’appropriation directe ou indirecte de terres étrangères, fréquemment appelée « accaparement de terres » pour satisfaire des besoins alimentaires, a un corollaire direct, « l’empreinte terres », c'est-à-dire la mesure des « terres importées » nécessaires à la fabrication de nombreux produits.

Qatar will build a hub at Tanjung Manis in Sarawak, Malaysia, which is home to more than 77,000 hectares of agricultural land, mainly for the production of pharmaceuticals and halal food.

“Fair Fruit is grown by Cameroonian farmers who were forced off their land by a transnational company seeking to establish its vast plantations."

Qatar has plans to expand its food security options in Pakistan and the state-owned corporation, Hassad Food, has opened an office in Lahore, Pakistan’s ambassador Mohamed Sarfraz A Khanzada told Gulf Times in an exclusive interview.

"I’ve put together a table with what I think are the main Swedish land investments in Russia and Ukraine," writes Brian Kuns. "In doing this, I ran into some of the known difficulties associated with monitoring the phenomenon of large-scale land-acquisition."

La terre est une source de profit pour quelques uns, que ce soit ici, dans l'Etat espagnol, ou à l’autre bout de la planète, écrit Esther Vivas

UK farm management company Velcourt Group said it’s planning to invest in farmland in Romania in a joint venture with Mintridge International.

Bagamoyo villagers are up in arms over the government supporting an investor they accuse of grabbing about 6,000 hectares of their land in the district.

The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness.

The African agriculture sector is showing signs of improvements attributed to BRICS investment flows in smaller agricultural projects, reversing the trend triggered by the global food crisis in 2008.

In New Zealand, an opposition party is demanding hard figures on how much farmland is owned by foreigners, but the government says it can't produce the figures.

On 2 March, officials of Swiss company Addax Bioenergy went to install pegs on a large stretch of boli land without reference to the owners of the land and in contrast with the lease agreement which says the company shall only concentrate on the upland.

Lakewood Asset Management is pleased to announce the launch of its latest agricultural asset project -- Australian Farmland in partnership with Agri Firma Capital of the UK.