“The threat of 'land grabbing’ has reminded us how vital access to land is for 500 million food-insecure households around the world,” says Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Sir Michael Fay, his mainly Maori colleagues, and the rival Chinese bidders for the Crafar dairy farms, have one thing in common. In a world where global investors are all looking for safe havens for their money, they see New Zealand farmland as good buying.

Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd

The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.

« Sans consensus international, d’autres instruments chercheront à combler les lacunes, comme ceux déjà mis au point unilatéralement par des fonds d’investissement privés,» a averti Olivier De Schutter.

Ya se ha sustraído al campesinado una extensión similar a las tierras agrícolas del Reino Unido –45 millones de hectáreas– bajo el sistema de acaparamiento de tierras que, según mienten sus defensores, «o bien se compran tierras inutilizadas o bien las nuevas inversiones generarán riqueza al país»

This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.

Lamentablemente, el Congreso de la Nación no ha manifestado gran interés por el momento para debatir y analizar una Ley de Tierras.

El Congreso Nacional de Tierras, Territorios y Soberanías se propuso sacar a las multinacionales y transnacionales que han ayudado a empobrecer el campo y combatir el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo del actual gobierno

With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.

Dossier de la revue "Afrique contemporaine", Nº 237, 2011/1

La consigna del festival tiene que ver con rechazar el acuerdo agroalimentario firmado con China por el actual gobernador Miguel Saiz, en el cual se le entregarán a la empresa Heilongjiang Beidahuang 320.000 hectáreas de tierras.

It is very important that the Colombian government takes actions to sustainably develop Colombia’s agricultural sector, without endangering its sovereign control over this sector.

At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.

L’accaparement des terres est un problème crucial, qui a fait sa présence dans tous les pays africains, selon Me Fako Bruno Ouattara, un avocat burkinabé et expert en résolution de conflits.