Au XVIIIe siècle, la Grande Catherine avait décidé de faire appel à des agriculteurs allemands pour cultiver le sol de la Russie. A un moment, on a dénombré plusieurs milliers de colons. Quelque 250 ans après, l'histoire se répète.

Si la France a perdu son triple A, ses banques et assurances profitent bien de la hausse des cours mondiaux des denrées alimentaires.

Le ministère éthiopien de l'agriculture s'oppose à ce que la compagnie Karuturi installe des milliers de fermiers indiens sur les terres qu'elle loue dans la région de Gambela.

Hace algunos meses, Cargill emprendió en la altillanura colombiana un proyecto de producción de cereales que involucra 90.000 hectáreas en el departamento del Meta, y ya invirtió 100.000 millones de pesos en la compra de tierras.

Après la crise des prix agricoles en 2008, un constat, en 2011, la spéculation reprend. Il y a aussi le problème des achats croissants et massifs de terres dans de nombreux pays, notamment du Sud.

The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.

The Korean company Daewoo Logistics Corporation has acquired all the shares in the agribusiness company Madagascar Future Entreprises. Its manager Kwon Kim is believed to have begun new negotiations with the present Malagasy government for agricultural projects.

Aucun aménagement à la marge de ces politiques ne saurait contenir la rapacité des investisseurs, publics ou privés : c’est la logique néolibérale qui les sous-tend qu’il faut combattre, au moyen de mobilisations populaires

"The institutional investors are just starting to get into farmland," says Perry Vieth, president of Ceres Partners LLC

Starting this year Olam Moçambique plans to invest over US$35 million to make use of the agricultural potential of the Mopeia area to produce large amounts of rice on 227 hectares of land to supply the domestic market.

No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.

German farmer plans to expand his operation to 250,000 hectares, an area the size of the state of Saarland, and to float his company on the stock market in Germany, where he pays a portion of his taxes.

Liberia is one of the top 5 countries in the world whose farmland are under the control of foreign concessionaires, according to a report made by Grain, a non-governmental organization supporting small farms.

Militant peasants from Asian Peasant Coalition mounted a mobilisation against global land grabbing.

European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a new report released today by Friends of the Earth Europe