For the first time, the New Mexico State Investment Council is investing in Brazilian agriculture through Brookfield Asset Management’s Brazil Agriculture Fund II vehicle.

Neither “global land grab” nor “South-South cooperation” discourses do justice to the complexity we witness since Chinese investments in the Brazilian soybean agribusiness have begun taking shape in recent years.

The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.

Segundo as organizações, o projeto foi apresentado secretamente ao Governo moçambicano em janeiro de 2014 e já está no Conselho de Ministros aguardando aprovação.

ADECRU y GRAIN denuncian y repudian públicamente el Proyecto de Desarrollo del Valle del Río Lúrio y expresan su preocupación e indignación al respecto.

China's largest grain trader COFCO is setting up a venture with sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) to control COFCO's investments in Dutch trader Nidera and Noble Group Ltd's agribusiness.

ADECRU e GRAIN exigiram que o governo de Moçambique rejeite um projeto de desenvolvimento do vale do rio Lúrio (nordeste), devido aos "destruidores e fatais impactos na vida de mais de 500 mil pessoas e biodiversidade".

500 mil pessoas serão severamente atingidas, caso o Conselho de Ministros de Moçambique decida aprovar o chamado Projecto de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Rio Lúrio (DVRL).

500,000 people in northern Mozambique will be severely affected if the country's Council of Ministers approves the Lúrio River Valley Development Project (DVRL).

Some estimates now bring the total of Ukrainian farmland controlled by foreign companies to over 2.2 million ha.

Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.

Os países do G-8 querem assumir a terra do continente africano, exportando suas tecnologias e ignorando qualquer conhecimento agroecológico.

Legislative changes now sweeping across Asia threaten to displace millions of peasant families, undermine local food systems and increase violent conflicts over land. Already, just six percent of Asia's farm owners hold around 66% of its farmland.

Peasants of Malema, Nampula Province, criticised the government for the way the ProSavana project is being implemented at a public consultation on the project's master plan.

The Sociedade Rural Brasileira (SRB), which represents large- and medium-scale farmers, has opened a legal battle to open up land purchases to foreign commercial investors.

プロサバンナ事業でのマスタープラン初稿の開示と対話プロセスに関する抗議と要請

Saskatchewan’s move to freeze purchases of farmland by pension plans and foreign investors has ignited a debate over what’s best for the future of Canada’s bread basket.

Land grabs in Africa are helping to perpetuate economic inequalities similar to the colonial era economic imbalances.

As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.

L'accaparement des terres inquiète énormément les populations africaines. Cette situation plonge les paysans et habitants des régions concernés dans le dénuement total.

Senhuile SA, le très contesté consortium agroalimentaire italo-sénégalais, propriété du groupe financier Tampieri, de Faenza, fait à nouveau parler de lui. Et ce c'est pas pour une bonne nouvelle.

Kuban Agricultural Holding is in talks to sell a stake with a number of Asian funds and investment companies, including Chinese firm CIC, which is interested in Basic Element's livestock division.

Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.

What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.

Des acteurs de la société civile sénégalaise ont plaidé, mardi à Dakar, pour une synergie et un combat harmonisé de toutes les parties prenantes à la lutte contre l’accaparement des terres, afin de mieux se faire entendre.

As the world reaches the limits of available farmland and water for irrigation, countries are turning to international markets to meet domestic food demand. New analysis explores trends and consequences in the international food market.

“Os investidores propõem uma mistura de produção, em grande escala, de produtos agrícolas e contratos com certos pequenos produtores. Ambas as coisas são projetadas para lhes dar o controle sobre a produção agrícola em grandes extensões de terra".

Calvin Burgess, chairman of Dominion Farms, has issued a letter denying their involvement in a 30,000 hectare landgrab in Nigeria's Taraba State.

A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement, building new points of convergence unite movements working on issues from food sovereignty to land-grabbing, biofuels and climate justice.

Entrevista especial com Vicente Adriano:“A redução da produtividade em novas terras chega a atingir 60%, o que coloca famílias em situação de insegurança alimentar"