The 19th century had the Great Scramble for Africa, when developed nations raced for several decades to lay claim to new territories and their riches. This century may yet be known as the Great Selloff of Africa.
"There's a lot of money chasing the grow-out of agricultural land right now," says Gary Thien of Thien Farm Management.
The 6,000 hectare farm in Nasarawa, one of Nigeria's main rice growing belts, is expected to yield 36,000 tonnes of milled rice annually at its peak.
Report from FIAN on the international conference against land grabbing which took place in Mali in November 2011
Dans le cas de la Chine, il semble qu’il faille faire remonter le land grab à 1995, avec l’implantation de la Zhongkan Farm en Zambie, selon Laurent Hou.
Los movimientos sociales que representan a los campesinos, los pequeños agricultores y los trabajadores agrícolas no coinciden en que la racionalización de las inversiones a gran escala sea la respuesta al problema global del acaparamiento de tierras.
Agriterra added to the $6bn investment wave heading into West Africa palm oil by acquiring 45,000 hectares of plantation land in Sierra Leone.
The State government announced that it would amend relevant laws to enable farmers to use their land as equity in farming collaborations with private companies.
Adecoagro announced today that on November 30, 2011, it completed the sale of "La Alegria" farm, located in General Villegas, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a total price of $13.7 million.
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"If we lose our family farmers, we'll lose the diversity in our food supply, and what we eat will be dictated to us by a few large corporations," says Chukki Nanjundaswamy of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha
Company now manages farms on 3.6 million hectares and believes that, overall, US$25 billion of institutional capital has gone into the acquisition of farms.
Feronia Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.
The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.
“Throughout these few days, we have exchanged our experiences as farmers. I have learned that land grabbing is slightly different in every country—but the consequences are always the same. Without land, we cannot live.”
