China's farming history misapplied in Africa
    Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.
    • Al Jazeera
    • 27 October 2011
    Interpreting the land grab
    The so-called “global land grab” continues the historic process of land enclosures described by Sir Thomas More in Utopia as “sheep eating men,” when English peasants were evicted from the commons to make room for private estates.
    • TNI
    • 14 October 2011
    Soros-backed Adecoagro raises $314 million in IPO
    Investing in Adecoagro is “a way to play the potential global shortage of food, especially in emerging markets,” says Francis Gaskins, president of IPOdesktop.com
    • Bloomberg
    • 29 January 2011
    Land rush in Africa
    Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists? asks BusinessWeek
    • Business Week
    • 25 November 2009
    When wise investing leads to full stomachs
    Why produce a low-value crop such as wheat using expensive water when the FAO says the global wheat harvest will this year be second only to last year’s record?
    • The National
    • 16 November 2009
    GCC urged to reduce its reliance on food imports
    As the issue of global food security was being discussed yesterday in Rome by world leaders, a senior UN official here highlighted the need for GCC countries to address their dependence on food imports.
    • The National
    • 16 November 2009
    Outsourcing agriculture
    If land is being unused or under-utilized in poor regions across Africa and Southeast Asia, outsourcing to capital-rich and land-poor nations could help prevent another global food crisis, but it must be fair and productive, Adam Wolfe writes for ISN Security Watch.
    • ISN Security Watch
    • 28 May 2009
    Solving threat of hunger for rich may starve the poor
    The problem of food security poses a real threat to global stability. Meeting in Italy last weekend, agriculture ministers of the G8 industrialized countries recognized the extent of the problem. They pledged to continue fighting hunger. But beyond calling for increased public and private investment in agriculture, the final communiqué of the ministerial meeting was short on fresh proposals.
    • Saudi Gazette
    • 23 April 2009
    Funds swoop on farmland as commodities boom
    Soaring agricultural prices, growing demand for biofuels and the growth of the Chinese and Indian economies are leading top global investment banks to buy farmland in a bid to embrace the physical commodities market.
    • Reuters
    • 13 Mar 2008
    University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
    The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
    • ActionAidUSA
    • 28 April 2021
    Why Chinese farmers have crossed border into Russia's Far East
    Chinese companies first appeared in Russia's Far East in the early 2000s, but Beijing's interest in the region increased after the global financial crisis of 2008. Chinese investment was followed by an influx of Chinese migrants.
    • BBC
    • 01 November 2019
    Stopping colleges’ land grabs: Farmers and faculties unite
    Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.
    • Grassroots International
    • 24 April 2019
    Farmland Partners may buy land in Canada, but rules out Scottish deal
    Farmland Partners is investigating a land purchase in Canada, and looked at farms in Scotland too, in its quest to exploit global farm price growth it sees continuing, driven by the quest to meet food demand.
    • Agrimoney
    • 26 May 2017
    TIAA report on responsibility and farmland
    TIAA-CREF new report shows further expand of TIAA’s management presence in the global farmland market. Despite raised concerned of TIAA investment in regions such as Brazil contribute to land conflicts, lead to the displacement of local people. TIAA has been investing in farmland since 2007.
    • All about Alpha
    • 11 December 2016
    FGV aims to seal deal for Eagle High stake by end-October
    Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) aims to enter into a definitive agreement for its proposed acquisition of Indonesian palm oil company PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk by October 31 this year.
    • Deal Street Asia
    • 17 August 2015
    To make palm oil 'sustainable' local communities must be in charge
    The palm oil industry's repeated failure to keep its promises illustrates why global initiatives to achieve 'sustainable palm oil' must place communities centre-stage, writes FPP
    • The Ecologist
    • 14 May 2015
    USD$10 million investment to boost food production and security in Ghana
    Magcor is investing $10 million USD to boost food production and security in Ghana after investing in Agricon Global last year.
    • ModernGhana
    • 03 June 2014
    Asian palm-oil planters head to West Africa
    Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 April 2013
    Foreign investment in farmland: No low-hanging fruit
    Report by Deutsche Bank examines the global rush for land
    • Deutsche Bank
    • 13 November 2012
    Land-grabbing linked with hunger
    Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.
    • IRIN
    • 12 October 2012
    West Africa: The downside of foreign land acquisitions
    Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.
    • IRIN
    • 19 January 2012
    Dealing with the race for agricultural land
    Panel of five men at the at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany discusses the problem of “land grabbing”.
    • Economic Insights
    • 06 October 2011
    EU, US biofuels rules aggravating third world land grab, World Bank says
    In a 164-page report that actually endorses the practice of the sale of vast tracts of agricultural land to foreign buyers, the global lender nevertheless frets over the fall-out of northern legislation that makes investors view every farm, jungle and meadow in the third world the same way they view an oil field, says the EU Observer
    • EU Observer
    • 10 September 2010
    Corporations and investors buying up Canadian farmland: NFU report on land grabbing
    The National Farmers Union (NFU) today released the first report of its kind documenting Canadian developments in a global farmland grab.
    • NFU
    • 07 June 2010
    Interview-Foreigners buying African farms a good thing
    The outsourcing of food production in Africa by some Asian and Middle-Eastern countries will boost global stocks and may help stave off of future food crises, the World Bank says.
    • Reuters
    • 10 December 2009
    Sime Darby turns to Liberian palm, rubber estates
    Malaysia's biggest company Sime Darby has struck a deal with the Liberian government to develop oil palm and rubber estates in West African nation as land runs out at home and global demand for palm oil surges.
    • Reuters
    • 04 May 2009
    Growing concerns
    While other property markets crumbled last year, global farmland values initially kept rising. But recently that resilience has been tested. Andrew Shirley investigates whether agriculture is still a good investment.
    • Knight Frank
    • 23 Mar 2009
    Guyana seeking agro-investors in the US
    As the Caribbean and the rest of the world are still grappling with the global food crisis, Guyana is seeking to sell its vast land and water resources to United States investors as an area suitable for agriculture and aquaculture investment.
    • Caribbean Net News
    • 28 November 2008
    Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells Food
    Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.
    • New York Times
    • 10 August 2008
    How the land lies
    Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.
    • Knight Frank
    • 27 April 2011
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