With famine hitting the horn of Africa, the European Parliament holds a full-day hearing on food security challenges in developing countries, looking at EU policies, sustainable farming, commodity speculation, land grab and other key food-related issues.

Black River Capital Partners Fund (Food) LP, a fund managed by the private equity arm of US agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, has offered to acquire 28.11 percent of Philippine fruit and vegetable grower AgriNurture Inc. for $30.4 million.

CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, today announced a US$20m investment in farming businesses in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda

Rodolphe De Koninck, professeur à l'Université de Montréal, nous explique les causes et les conséquences de ce phénomène.

El reconocido biólogo y activista ambiental Raúl Montenegro* cuestiona los impactos ambientales y sociales del acuerdo firmado entre el gobierno de la provincia de Río Negro y el grupo económico chino Beidahuang.

Since Monday evening more than a hundred land owners are blocking the Socfin operation area

The bursting of the river banks of Baro and Alwero has resulted in the submergence of the crop, adding a loss of hope for producing a sizeable maize crop by Karuturi.

“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.