"C'est une bombe qui peut exploser si on ne s'en occupe pas", prévient Paul Mathieu, expert auprès de la FAO

Lawyers Unite Against Corruption in Nigeria demands probe into the planned N70billion deal on rice production and processing between the governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration of Kwara State and Vasolar Consortium Company of Spain.

CAADP report urges African ministers to pursue incentives to ease private investments in agriculture without undermining national sovereignty in areas such as land and water acquisition.

Au cours des dernières années, des consortiums étrangers ont manifesté leur intention de se porter acquéreurs des terres agricoles québécoises. Cette demande vient de pays émergents qui manquent de terres agricoles.

"Debido a las estrictas regulaciones en Brasil y Argentina para la compra de tierras agrícolas por parte de inversionistas extranjeros, China ha cambiado su modelo y está invirtiendo en infraestructura en lugar de tierras..."

Corporate control of Australia’s farmland is beginning to ruffle feathers among some of the country’s primary producers.


Neil Crowder of Chayton Capital tells the BBC that farming in Africa can be very profitable - just wait till you hear how much he expects investors will make. But will it also benefit Africans?

Ethiopia’s government said it plans to clear land and provide infrastructure for investors to accelerate a commercial farming drive in the west of the country, amid opposition to the plans that left 19 people dead.

The Angolan executive will give to Cape Verde in coming days about 7.500 hectares of land in Quibala district to grow maize for export back home

Senator says Sime Darby’s contract was entered into by the Liberian government and as such, only the government has power to cancel it.

In Uganda it is the top leadership that initiates the land grabs for global land thieves. Whole communities are being displaced and scattered.

Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co, China's biggest beverage producer, hopes to invest about $220 million in dairy farms in Western Australia in order to expand its import channels for milk.

Egypt’s Citadel Capital has been busy defending its work in Africa, such as in South Sudan where it has taken a number of measures to ensure its agribusiness project benefits the local community and doesn’t step on small farmer toes.

No es desconocido que la ampliación de la frontera agrícola -en Bolivia y otros países- está íntimamente relacionada con la privatización, concentración y-como se observa en los últimos años en nuestro país- con la extranjerización de la tierra.

Ora tocca agli Stati membri fare la loro parte