La Chine a accepté des accords commerciaux qui obligent le pays à importer des denrées alimentaires et mis en place des mesures favorisant le développement des grandes exploitations et d’énormes entreprises alimentaires et agroindustrielles.

Over the past couple of decades, China has embraced trade agreements that oblige it to import foods and implemented policies that favour the development of larger farms and massive agribusiness and food corporations.

As with previous moments of enclosure and commercialisation, Africa’s recent land rush is already sparking resistance and counter-movements.

The level of Chinese investment in the Australian beef supply chain appears certain to increase as China hunts for new food sources to feed its one and half billion citizens. Nine Chinese companies have outlaid almost $430 million on Australian beef cattle holdings and downstream red meat supply chain.

Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

Investors have turned to farmland as part of a sweeping push into physical assets — everything from lumber, hotels and apartments to parking meters, bridges and highways.

Private equity and venture capital firms are going down to the farm, moving into the agribusiness and agriculture technology sectors in a big way.

Chinese billionaire is looking to expand overseas and potentially take part in the next big boom, which he says just might be Australian agriculture as Chinese people seek out higher-quality food products.

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.

"We have a decent pipeline of anything between 200 and 400 million dollars in opportunities in Africa," says Craig Chambers, Old Mutual Investment Group’s Director of Strategic Projects.

Malasia e Indonesia controlan el 80% de un industria que mueve 45.000 millones y tiene efectos nefastos en el medioambiente.

Chinese company's takeover of Australian farmland and firms draws mixed reaction from Australia ministers.

TIAA-CREF has closed its second global agriculture fund, TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture II, on $3 billion, exceeding its $2.5 billion target. The fund had raised $1.7 billion by mid-June.

Australia is facing $43 billion foreign farming frenzy by Chinese companies, spurred by mounting food security needs and a push to “go global.”

Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them

‘Land grabs’ stands tall as a major development challenge in Africa. Millions of agriculture dependent families are forced to leave their fertile lands for multinational companies who occupy the lands for business purposes.

La Via Campesina denounces the International Land Coalition for calling for mitigating the negative effects of landgrabbing, rather than insisting that landgrabbing be stopped.

Even the World Bank admits that the vast bulk of foreign investment in Africa doesn’t help the continent’s people, with aid and agricultural support often a smokescreen for multinationals looting nations’ wealth.

The fact that China does not now depend on Africa in any meaningful way for food does not mean this will continue to be the case.

If Africa remains a food deficit region, exporting significant quantities of food to China grown on Chinese-financed investment projects will raise serious questions.

Investment treaties can have far-reaching implications for land reform, for public action to address “land grabbing” and more generally for land governance frameworks

Oakland Institute responds to reactions to its report by the owners of the industrial rice plantation in Mngeta.

Norfund, the UK aid department, and Capricorn are funding the British company Agrica’s industrial rice plantation in Tanzania, which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Across Southeast Asia, a dramatic reconfiguring of land rights, livelihoods and economies is underway, with profound and disturbing implications for the future.

Following the many paths of where investment dollars go to fund agricultural commodities in SE Asia can be a challenging but not impossible prospect.

The ‘land grab’ debate continues to evolve and today there is much more empirical data, as witnessed by the veritable explosion of publications.

"Les chefs d’État de l'Union Africaine et du G7 se réunissent en Sommet en juin 2015. Nous appelons tous les gouvernements participant à la Nouvelle Alliance à suspendre tous les engagements et les aides liés à la Nouvelle Alliance."

The policies promoted by the New Alliance facilitate the grabbing of land and other natural resources, further marginalize small-scale producers, and undermine the right to adequate food and nutrition

Avec de tels projets, l’accaparement de terres par des investisseurs internationaux pour mener des opérations de compensation carbone, phénomène déjà observé, pourrait s’aggraver.