FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.

Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.

Environmentalists are up in arms over the latest design for the Merau­ke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, which they say will see more than 1.1 million hectares of forests converted into agricultural estates.

Le Conseil des ministres a adopté hier le projet de loi fixant les conditions et modalités d’exploitation de terres agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat. L’ouverture au partenariat étranger est exclue.

The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Le Fonds pour l’agriculture en Afrique sera financé par la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) et l’Agence française de développement (AFD) à hauteur de 40 millions de dollars chacun.

A German investment fund that bought a majority interest in a Southland dairy farm, Aquila Capital's AgrarInvest, also has shareholdings in three other Kiwi dairy companies.

World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.

Evidence suggests a marked disparity in the benefits received by those involved in and affected by these transnational land acquisitions, particularly for those originally dwelling on the land.

A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.

Anthony "Chocfinger" Ward, the commodities trader whose group Armajaro Holdings has just cornered the cocoa market, is planning his next move into food.

Africa's untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said.

"Le fait de donner à un pays étranger une partie de son propre territoire n’est pas nécessairement néfaste. C’est surtout une question de prix et de conditions."

A group of food security advocates wants a Philippine government-led corporation that identifies new land suitable for local and foreign agricultural businesses abolished.

Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.

It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.

In other African countries, including Ghana, South Africa and Togo, the China State Farm and Agribusiness Corporation (CSFAC) has founded 11 agricultural production, processing and sales projects, and runs a total of 16,000 hectares of farmlands

Fonterra says it is having a "very close look" at relaunching a processing business in China as it faces a rapidly growing competitive threat from Chinese manufacturing startups with their own large-scale dairy farms.

Avec son rapport publié ce mercredi, la Banque mondiale met le pied sur une poudrière. Intitulé «L'intérêt croissant pour les terres agricoles dans le monde peut-il apporter de bénéfices équitables à long terme?», il relance la guerre entre industriels et paysans.

De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers

Jordan's stalled Sudan agricultural investment project is no longer feasible, as no one will pay the infrastructure costs to transport water.

Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.

Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.

Quietly, these modern-day land marauders are coming to Canada—undermining family farms, compromising local food sovereignty, and harming the environment.

L'idée qui germe au Japon de consacrer une partie des énormes réserves de change du pays à l'achat de matières premières industrielles est susceptible, si elle est appliquée, de provoquer des bouleversements économiques et financiers.

“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture

Les pays du Golfe cherchent à stimuler la production alimentaire dans d'autres pays pour soutenir leurs populations croissantes.

La Banque mondiale a organisé une vidéo conférence la semaine dernière sur « la problématique de l’accaparement des terres : quelles implications pour les collectivités locales » dans le cadre du programme Forum d’animation pour la Gouvernance locale en Afrique francophone.

Ernesto Tzi, directeur de l’ONG guatémaltèque Sank, expose les enjeux autour de la terre dans son pays et les solutions qu’il développe pour protéger les agriculteurs.

Malgré une loi d’orientation agricole votée en 2006 et affirmant la priorité à l’agriculture familiale, les perspectives sont alarmantes pour la paysannerie et la souveraineté alimentaire du Mali. L’accaparement des terres par de grandes sociétés, le plus souvent étrangères, prend de l’ampleur.