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![FAO and World Bank back food pirates]( "FAO and World Bank back food pirates")
18 November 2009And now the bad news. FAO has taken a U-turn in its clear position on the race by food-importing countries and private companies to buy land overseas for domestic food and agriculture needs.
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![Is Africa’s land up for grabs? [EN, FR, DE]](http://farmlandgrab.org/wp-content/themes/arras-theme/library/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/204x_mg_1land1.jpg&w=190&h=100&zc=1 "Is Africa’s land up for grabs? [EN, FR, DE]")
11 November 2009“Governments are sitting on a box of dynamite,” Namanga Ngoni, president of AGRA, initiated by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told the media.
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8 September 2009An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
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11 August 2009To be brutally honest, mutual interest is the opposite of what investor countries are looking for
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14 July 2009"Es una forma de hegemonía (...) Qatar nunca cedería a Kenia participaciones en sus campos petrolíferos", critica el abogado keniano Evans Monari.
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14 July 2009 "C'est une forme d'hégémonie (...) Le Qatar ne cèderait jamais au Kenya des participations dans ses champs pétrolifères", critique l'avocat kényan Evans Monari.
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![The poor struggle for bargaining power in land disputes – world leaders aren’t turning blind eye]( "The poor struggle for bargaining power in land disputes – world leaders aren’t turning blind eye")
27 June 2009When people are using lands under customary tenure arrangements, there is an inequality in bargaining power where no formal titles to the land exist if a foreign investor is interested in purchasing the land.
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26 June 2009I wonder why the people (and more importantly the political leaders and elite) of the African and Latin American countries are not opposing and driving these companies out from within their national borders. The reason is simple. The rich and elite of every country is the real beneficiary of the process of globalisation.
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8 June 2009What we are witnessing in countries like Ethiopia today is an extreme form of the banana republic syndrome.
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26 May 2009Japan will spearhead a drive at the Group of Eight summit to prevent "farmland grabbing" in developing countries and encourage responsible investing in agriculture.
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21 May 2009Rich food importers are acquiring vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?
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20 May 2009A recent jump in rich country land purchases in the developing world has caught the attention of analysts in trade and human rights circles.
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12 May 2009On May 5, the Wilson Center hosted a half-day conference that considered the implications for investors, host countries, and food security, highlighting case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
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![Africa: Tractored out by “land grabs”?]( "Africa: Tractored out by “land grabs”?")
11 May 2009Mohammed Mbwana, who farms in the Tana River delta area and is an official of a local NGO, said the Qatar agreement would displace thousands of locals. At least 150,000 families in farming and pastoralist communities depend on the land in question, said to be part of Kenya’s biggest wetland.
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![Foreigners lead global land rush]( "Foreigners lead global land rush")
5 May 2009More than 20 million hectares of farmland in Africa and Latin America are now in the hands of foreign governments and companies, a sign of a global "land grab" that got a boost from last year's food crisis.
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![Extranjeros a la caza de propiedades agrarias]( "Extranjeros a la caza de propiedades agrarias")
5 May 2009Más de 20 millones de hectáreas de tierras en el mundo en desarrollo están en manos de gobiernos y empresas extranjeras, ejemplo de una apropiación agraria que se disparó con la crisis alimentaria del año pasado.
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3 May 2009Neo-colonialists are buying up agricultural land in Africa – and local farmers could be crushed unless there are international rules to protect them.
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![Selling farms to foreigners: Question of profit or loss]( "Selling farms to foreigners: Question of profit or loss")
1 May 2009Rattled by last year's food price crisis, governments and corporations have signed a slew of deals to lease or buy arable land in cash-strapped nations, mainly in Africa and Southeast Asia.
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![Food scare sparks Third World land rush]( "Food scare sparks Third World land rush")
30 April 2009The International Food Policy Research Institute said 15 million to 20 million hectares of farmland in poor nations were sold since 2006, or were under negotiation for sale to foreign entities.
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![Food crisis triggers land grab in developing countries]( "Food crisis triggers land grab in developing countries")
29 April 2009Von Braun says many details of the land deals are unknown because of a lack of transparency. But he estimates the amount of land and money involved. “It adds up to 15 to 20 million hectares currently under negotiation…. So it’s fairly large. How much money is involved? If we add up the deals negotiated and the investments planned, it adds up to $20 to $30 billion of investment,” he says.