Des sociétés basées en Suisse possèdent et gèrent des surfaces considérables dans les pays en développement

If the early reports are anything to go by, the Bangladeshi deals already incorporate many elements that suggest they are being done in a way likely to engender fierce resentment and opposition in the African countries concerned.

Companies in Bangladesh are planning to lease thousands of hectares of land for agriculture in some African countries. Robert Ziegler, the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute, believes that Bangladesh's food strategy will become more widespread.

Argentina's drive to limit land purchases by foreigners is deepening concerns about its investment climate, but is not expected to cause major changes to who owns some of the world's most productive farmland.

The government of Bangladesh has also been looking for farmland abroad -- in Burma, Kenya, Uganda

FAO side-event in the margins of the 4th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11 May 2011

The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.

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

"Brazil has the land and the technology to produce 50 percent of the world's (exported) food in the future. It's right that we stop and debate how best to exploit this opportunity to create wealth and jobs for Brazilians," said Fabio de Salles Meirelles, vice president of CNA, Brazil's largest farmer group.

From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.

Translation of It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"! by Via Campesina

The UAE plans to hold further talks with officials from Australia with a view to invest in farmland as part of its plan to tackle food security.

The World Food Program intends to buy some of the grain produced in Ethiopia by foreign investors in order to assist hungry people. Ironically, this group of intended food aid recipients will include those working to produce it in the first place. Ethiopia's government is calling this sustainable development.

On assiste depuis quelques années à une véritable envolée des investissements agricoles dans le monde en développement.

According to Pessôa, as a result of limitations on foreign capital, Brazil will have problems increasing its production at a rate adequate to meet the global demand.

Trying to compensate for the absence of legitimacy of these massive land deals by getting investors to adhere to a few principles is deceitful.

Intentar compensar la ausencia de legitimidad de estos negocios con tierras haciendo que los inversionistas se adhieran a unos cuantos principios es una estafa.

Sudan and UAE have agreed to concentrate investment in the field of agriculture, referring that the UAE Al-Thahra Company expressed desire to invest in Sudan as strategic partner in the food security projects.

The richest man in the Middle East had a grand vision for turning a swath of land in southern Egypt into an agricultural marvel. Now that land has become part of a political struggle, in the wake of the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Corporations and bankers do not believe in farming as a way of life; they believe in farming as a very profitable business that they control. Their goal is not to improve family farming in Africa, but to eradicate it.

The Republic of Dagestan will provide the US company with 100,000 hectares of land in Nogai district for a project to produce and process sugar beets and vegetables.

LPC-U exprime sa vive indignation suite à la signature par le Gouvernement congolais et des fermiers Sud-africains d'un accord portant sur la cession par le Congo de 80 000ha de terres arables.

Ethiopia is on sale. Everybody is getting a piece of her. For next to nothing. The land vultures have been swooping down on Gambella from all parts of the world.

Sudanese officials have set aside 17,000 hectares of land in White Nile state for an Egyptian meat project.

The government and companies are joining hands to expand the country’s overseas farming bases, establish a direct import channel and modernize agricultural production and distribution.

For the sake of our farmers and our national food security, the Federal Government needs to get tough on Australia's foreign investment policy.

Unregulated large-scale land acquisition in south Sudan by foreign companies threatens the rights of the people, with an area bigger than Rwanda earmarked for use by outside businesses, a report from Norwegian People's Aid warns.

The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.

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

Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.