With opportunities in neighboring countries almost finished and due to the expensive land, Brazilian agriculture has started showing up in Africa, here and there, but promising to grow.

The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines

“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas

The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi

"We encourage countries to speed up reforms to modernise land rights," says new CEO.

Civil society -- small farmers, fisher and forest folk, pastoralists -- look with a great deal of suspicion at the US and other countries’ intentions, reports David Andrews about upcoming meetings in Rome

Africa e rapina delle terre: l'Italia finalmente apre gli occhi sul land grabbing nei Paesi più poveri. La dichiarazione di Dakar

Negotiations between Chinese Export-Import Bank and the Government of the Ukraine include discussion of its involvement in the financial operation of the land market in the Ukraine.

Lease contracts covering millions of hectares of agricultural lands signed by the Philippines Department of Agriculture with foreign entities during the Arroyo administration are currently being reviewed to determine if they are in accord with the current administration’s food security plan.

Intermon Oxfam señala que desde 2001 una superficie equivalente al continente europeo ha sido enajenada a favor de inversores internacionales

The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.

Près de 18 mois après l’annonce du projet, l’Algérie vient de franchir un premier pas en vue d’ouvrir partiellement le secteur agricole à l’investissement étranger.

“As pessoas com direitos sobre a terra estão sendo prejudicadas diante das elites locais e dos investidores nacionais ou estrangeiros, pois carecem de poder para fazer valer seus direitos e defender seus interesses eficazmente”

Xinjiang and Nigxia present huge opportunities to Arab investors for mining coal, oil and gas as well as the development of wind and solar power, halal food industry and large-scale agriculture.

Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.