SABLs have been used to take control of over 5 million hectares of land away from local people in the last few years. This means more than 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total land mass is now under the control of corporations.

The government of Papua New Guinea suspended its Special Agricultural and Business Leases program which has granted concessions to mostly foreign corporations across 5.2 m ha of community forest land

Cristina Kirchner a présenté un projet de loi qui limite les rachats des terres par des personnes physiques, des gouvernements et des sociétés étrangères.

Are land and water rights for real? How can they be guaranteed in the face of the insurmountable bargaining power that big corporations seem to posses?

When land deals were first proposed, they were said to offer the host countries four main benefits: more jobs, new technology, better infrastructure and extra tax revenues. None of these promises has been fulfilled.

En el marco de la reunión de una Comisión de la Legislatura provincial de Río Negro, fue tratado y analizado ayer el proyecto de ley 5/2011, que propicia el rechazo el Acuerdo de Cooperación para el Proyecto de Inversión agro alimenticio con la Empŕesa Beidahuang.

Glencore has an 8.7% share of the "addressable" global grain trade and farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.

Karuturi Global Ltd. may receive an additional 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of land from the Ethiopian government if its current 100,000-hectare concession is developed within two years, the Agriculture Ministry said.

The project funded by Col. Muammar Kadhafi with some US$30m to engage in mechanized production of rice has collapsed, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is now seeking a new investor to take over the project.

“We are looking at rice farmlands as it is the main food crop,” said Renatto Barbieri, Galtere's portfolio manager. “Have you heard of anyone dying because of not eating sugar or corn or soybeans?”

Manifestantes de distintas organizaciones ambientales y de la CTA, expresaron su repudio al acuerdo agroalimentario que firmó el gobernador Miguel Saiz, con la empresa Beidahuang State Farms Business Trade Group.

Representantes de uma empresa estatal chinesa estão na província de Rio Negro, no sul da Argentina, para alugar terras para a produção de alimentos que serão exportados para a China.

Ethiopia achieved positive results in the agriculture sector, which in turn led to improved domestic production and better environmental standards, says UNCTAD.

Qatar will make more investments overseas to produce key agricultural and horticultural commodities to ensure food supply security at home and will simultaneously focus on raising self-sufficiency in local produce.

"The reports claiming that the Government of Ethiopia has reduced the land concession given to Karuturi Global, are completely baseless," says Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Founder & MD, Karuturi Global.