Gulf states are following in the footsteps of China and looking beyond their shores to make heavy investments in agriculture

"We have set up a global food system that supports speculation. And with [such] markets, we can't get speculators out of the food business," said Lester Brown, an agricultural policy expert and founder of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute.

As the world's available farming land shrinks in the face of population growth, climate change and soil degradation, Australia's vast tracts of land are going to be increasingly important for global food security. Is the sell-off in Australia's long term interests?

EinBlick 1/2010 geht auf die Hintergründe und Konsequenzen von Landraub ein und gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Akteure und Lösungsansätze.

Esta advertencia se hizo plausible cuando el Banco Mundial lanzó la noticia en un encuentro en Washington el 26 y 27 de abril. Durante el acto, anunció sus compromisos voluntarios para proteger a largo plazo los derechos, los modos de vida y los recursos de estos continentes durante los procesos de adquisición de tierras por parte de inversores extranjeros.

Companies from the kingdom are meeting with representatives of the state of Western Australia to discuss buying equity in farms and investing in the wheat supply chain.

What do the Berlin Wall and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have in common?

アフリカでも進行する国際的な農地取引 誰にとってのチャンスなのか(2009)　AFJの会報より

The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it could be a time bomb for the world’s ability to cope with climate change

Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la Vallée, en Mauritanie, par des multinationales ne fait que commencer.

Las poblaciones afectadas no siempre permanecen expectantes. Además de la larga lucha del pueblo mapuche contra Benetton en Chile y Argentina, el caso de Madagascar es paradigmático.

Russia and other ex-Soviet countries could boost world food supply by encouraging more private investment, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Saturday.

Japan is considering providing loans from a government-owned bank for companies to purchase and lease farmland abroad, Munemitsu Hirano, counsellor at the international affairs department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said.

Après avoir provoqué la crise financière, les fonds spéculatifs commencent à s’intéresser au foncier.

Les organitzacions no governamentals pensen que la compra de terres per part d’inversors estrangers reforça aquest model industrial, amb el qual estan en desacord. «L’alimentació al món avui dia no és un problema de quantitat sinó d’accés».

Autre problème posé par l’exploitation des terres agricoles en Afrique par d’autres pays et par les multinationales étrangères : le droit à la propriété foncière. Dans plusieurs pays du continent, les législations autour de ce droit sont floues.

Lured by soaring food prices, corporations - both domestic and foreign - have been snapping up land in this fertile region the size of France, replacing inefficient Soviet-style collective farming with modern farming techniques and economies of scale.

“Foreigners who come here get astonished at the gleaming black earth,” said Viktor Karnushin, head of a local subsidiary of Sweden’s Black Earth Farming corporation, one of the biggest foreign players in Russian farming.

The rulers in the Persian Gulf are looking at other ways of ensuring food security. Rather than rely on the vagaries of the market and unstable import sources, countries across the GCC, through sovereign wealth funds and development agencies, are seeking to buy up the means of production itself.

A decade after capitalism transformed Russian industry, an agricultural revolution is stirring the countryside. The change is being driven by soaring global food prices (the price of wheat alone rose 77 percent last year) and a new reform allowing foreigners to own agricultural land. Together, they have created a land rush in rural Russia.

A new report on land grabbing exposes the vulnerability of farmers and citizens to arbitrary abuse of the law when developers and the state lay claim to their farms and homes for commercial gain.

Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”

Le puissant Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global donne deux ans au groupe français Bolloré pour améliorer le sort des travailleurs de la Société camerounaise des palmeraies, sa filiale indirecte.

Groups petition the World Bank, US and Netherlands to support an independent investigation into human rights abuses committed against dozens of vulnerable people in Kiryandongo District, western Uganda, by agribusiness company, Agilis Partners.

Under the alleged scheme, the land worth over US$7 million was illegally taken from two state firms and transferred to war veterans on the condition they lease it to some private firms, prosecutors said.

In Kiryandongo, Uganda, three foreign multinational companies, with support from the Ugandan government, have facilitated violent land grabs leading to the displacement of thousands of families.

Program Food Estate baru di Indonesia akan mengakibatkan lebih banyak kelaparan dan mengancam masyarakat lokal, hutan setempat dan iklim global.

Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.

As development banks gather for a global summit, organisations condemn the financing of corporate agribusiness and plantations, and call for public investment in agroecology and local food systems to tackle the climate crisis.

Alors que les banques de développement se réunissent pour un sommet mondial, les organisations condamnent le financement de l'agrobusiness, et appellent à des investissements publics dans l'agroécologie et les systèmes alimentaires locaux.