UAE-based food company IFFCO Group will be investing in palm oil plantations and cattle processing facility in Ethiopia — a country that could be one answer to UAE's food security issues, said a senior company official.

La balle est dans le camp des dirigeants pour mettre en œuvre une politique agricole visant à atteindre l’autosuffisance alimentaire sans avoir recours à la vente de terres aux investisseurs étrangers

Thomas Mirow, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, advises the Ukraine, on behalf of foreign investors, to drop its moratorium on the sale of farmland to foreigners.

Après les Etats et les entreprises étrangères, les grandes facultés d’outre-Atlantique investissent massivement sur le continent noir. Et les paysans locaux n’en bénéficient guère.

El grupo asiático es el mismo que sembrará soja en Río Negro

24 viedmenses iniciaron acción ante el juez del STJ Sodero Nievas. Pidieron que le ordene al Ejecutivo rionegrino que no avance en la implementación de los convenios suscriptos con la empresa estatal china Heilongjang Beidahuang

Objetivo "é criar um instrumento de controle sobre o uso da terra". O anteprojeto de lei é a terceira ação de governo sobre terras estrangeiras.

Today as the first ever G-20 agriculture meeting starts in Paris, the Bureau is launching a series of investigations into the role played by financial investors in commodity and food markets, focusing on the rising involvement of private equity in buying land around the world and its new food frontier, fish farming.

« Les petits paysans, qui ne possèdent que quelques hectares, n'auront pas les moyens de résister à la pression financière des grands groupes », martèle Ivan Kyrylenko, « c'est pourquoi l'opposition ukrainienne demande la prolongation du moratoire. »

leading experts in Canadian farmland investment and agri-business investment will meet at the Canadian Farmland & Agri-Business Investment Seminar.

As the G20’s agriculture ministers arrived in Paris for a two-day meeting, more than 500 non-governmental organisations from around the world have delivered a petition calling for a halt to land grabbing under the guise of “responsible agricultural investment”.

The movement towards acquiring agricultural land in low-income countries will intensify and Thailand will be of interest to investors, as it is well-endowed with good land, a lot of rain and largely uninterrupted, warm sunshine all year.

Pidamos a los legisladores de Río Negro que sean responsables de sus actos, ya que entre hoy jueves 23 y la semana que sigue debatirán sobre este asunto. La carta se envía a 41 legisladores.

Some pension funds are beginning to question their investments in commodities after accusations that massive flows into the sector have distorted markets, fuelled food inflation and hurt poor nations.

A short article on the land grab phenomenon: What are the drivers? Who is doing the grabbing? What are the main issues? What implications for the future ?