On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups from 70 countries sign letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture.

Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.

The communities of the DR Congo want a resolution to a land conflict that dates back to the Belgian colonial period with a palm oil company that is currently being financed by a consortium of European development banks led by DEG.

La Empresa agroindustrial Feronia, financiada por bancos de desarrollo occidentales, promueve el acaparamiento de tierras en República Democrática del Congo y ha sido denunciada por explotación laboral y otros abusos.

Whatever the merits, the extent or indeed the truth of the Great Arab Land Grab, it is now more or less history.

Une initiative internationale jetant la lumière sur l’ensemble de ces transactions est désormais un impératif autant qu’un préalable pour protéger cette agriculture que nous avons plus que jamais en partage

Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.

Cargill’s global asset management business, Black River, has recently extended its Australian agricultural land asset portfolio, buying two Queensland cattle grazing properties near Mackay for conversion into higher-return sugarcane production.

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

Farming revenues also plunged 64 percent, as AgriNurture closed its rice farming operations.

Une joint-venture indo-israélienne spécialisée dans l'huile de palme vient de bénéficier d'une incroyable exemption fiscale de la part du pouvoir ivoirien.

Japan's Marubeni Corp has been shaken by defaults on soybean sales and faces an investigation into alleged tax evasion in the world's top food consumer.

No signs identify a barren field in northeastern Brazil that was meant to be the center of one of China's most ambitious agricultural forays into South America.

In the competition for water between farmers on the one hand and cities and industries on the other, the economics do not favor agriculture

Transport costs have made the country’s agriculture industry uncompetitive. But new infrastructure projects should transform the opportunities some have seen in land values.

The writing is on the wall for anyone who doubts China's plans to invest billions of dollars for a big stake in WA agriculture.

Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.

Civil society groups warn secretive plan paves the way for a massive land grab in northern Mozambique.

The Beidahuang Group has been dismayed by what it regards as negative media coverage of its investment in agricultural land in Australia and plans to scale back while it still purchases more farms.

Rulli and colleagues estimate that global land grabbing is associated with the grabbing of 308 billion m3 of green water (i.e. rain water) and an additional grabbing of blue water that can range from 11 billion m3 (current irrigation practices) to 146 billion m3 (maximal irrigation) per year. To put these numbers in perspective, the average daily household consumption of water in the UK is 150 liters (0.15 m3) per person.

“Every day I field calls from potential investors, from pension funds, from family businesses that want to buy” from inside and outside Canada, said Doug Emsley, president of Assiniboia Capital Corp.

La « World Water Week » a débuté le 27 août à Stockholm. Si l'accaparement des terres est un sujet bien couvert, celui de l'eau fait moins l'objet d'attention de la part des ONG et des médias. Plusieurs études comblent cette lacune en montrant que l'eau est un enjeu majeur dans les transactions foncières à grande échelle.

NPR takes a closer look at the reality behind the rhetoric, and went to Mozambique, a hot spot in the global rush for land.

La especulación financiera tiene un nuevo objetivo: la tierra. Miles de pequeños campesinos sufren las consecuencias.

Concerns about land grabbing stem from a desire to hold the government accountable when the drive to make Thailand the Kitchen of the World ends up destroying ecological systems, small farmers' livelihoods, and our food security.

The project will be the biggest overseas investment made by a Chinese agricultural enterprise and China's largest overseas production base for cooking oil.

Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.

China should use its huge foreign exchange reserves to expand investment in the agricultural sector overseas, in an effort to increase domestic market supply, says researcher with government-owned economic institute.

Las preocupaciones de que la creciente presencia china esté socavando la soberanía local han llegado a su punto más alto en Argentina, donde el gobierno de la provincia de Río Negro firmó en 2010 un acuerdo con la corporación china Beidahaung Group para arrendar unas 320 mil hectáreas de sus mejores terrenos agrícolas para la producción de soya, trigo, colza y otros productos.

Des services de l’Etat étudient avec sérieux la possibilité de céder une bonne partie des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal à des investisseurs saoudiens intéressés par la production du riz pour leur pays.