Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.

Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..

Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.

A new study puts "land-grab" deals into the context of agricultural investments more generally.

Carlyle is part of a small group of investors that will inject $210 million into Export Trading Group, a Tanzania-based agricultural company that controls at least 60,000 hectares of farmland in Africa.

La Coop fédérée est toutefois préoccupée par le phénomène et réclame la mise sur pied d'un registre sur les transactions dans le milieu agricole,

Los especialistas precisaron que "el antiguo latifundio ha dado paso a grandes empresas capitalistas insertas en los circuitos del comercio internacional"

Louis Dreyfus lifted the lid on commodities operations such as its 45 orange groves, and unveiled a healthy appetite for investment, as, after 160 years, it unveiled its first public results statement.

Un nouveau rapport de la FAO fait le point sur les investissements dans les pays en développement et recommande la prudence dans les grosses acquisitions foncières.

New FAO report focuses on investments in developing countries, urging caution on large-scale land acquisitions

Report by Deutsche Bank examines the global rush for land

C’est la nouvelle démarche de la Banque mondiale pour rendre « socialement acceptable » l’accaparement de terres qui se développe comme une gangrène en Afrique.

C’est le 3 avril 2007 que la China light industrial corporation foreign economic and technical coopération (CLETC), une société chinoise dont le siège est à Beijing, et le Mali ont signé la convention d’établissement de la N-SUKALA. La superficie totale à exploiter est de 20.000 hectares.

Duxton Asset Management has bought more than 800 hectares of Australian fruit orchards for a discount of more than 50 per cent from receivers of failed managed investment scheme Rewards Group and listed land owner Ark Fund.

Alertan de posible riesgo en seguridad alimentaria. Según la FAO, los gobiernos deben asegurar que los procesos de concentración y extranjerización de tierras no tengan efectos negativos sobre la producción y el empleo agrícola.