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IRIN30 Jun 10If you are a small farmer in a developing country, and there is a big agricultural land investment deal going down in your neighbourhood, you could become part of it and make money in several ways, said a new UN-backed study.
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Le Monde28 Jun 10Pour favoriser le type de démarche "gagnant-gagnant", le CAS préconise la création d'un label "Agro Investissement Responsable"
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IFAD22 Jun 10According to IIED, for more inclusive land agreements to work, companies need to embrace them as a genuine economic component of their business, and not just as part of a corporate responsibility programme.
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IPS23 Apr 10Un año después de la controvertida compra irregular de vastas extensiones de tierra en África, las empresas trasnacionales se resisten a respetar un código de conducta que puede asegurar la transparencia.
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IPS13 Apr 10A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever.
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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]")
Modern Ghana11 Nov 09“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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![Land grab ‘in the public interest’: an issue of democracy and sustainable development]( "Land grab ‘in the public interest’: an issue of democracy and sustainable development")
FDSD29 Oct 09In many parts of the developing world, legislation allowing compulsory acquisition of land in the public interest has been used to make land available not for schools or hospitals, but for commercial projects – in the mining, petroleum or agriculture sectors.
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![Researchers seek land leases policy change in Africa]( "Researchers seek land leases policy change in Africa")
ASNS16 Oct 09Lorenzo Cotula of IIED explains how large-scale land acquisitions by rich countries in Africa failed to reach its target and why it is important to identify trends in these contractual practices
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IIED24 Sep 09Depending on the way they are structured, these investments can either create new opportunities to improve local living standards or further marginalise the poor, writes IIED
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Politis17 Sep 09Il est difficile de cerner l’ampleur réelle du phénomène récent d’appropriation de terrains cultivables dans les pays du Sud. Mais des études font fortement douter du bénéfice que ceux-ci pourraient en tirer.
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Basta !10 Jun 09Bien étrange rapport que celui de la FAO sur l’accaparement des terres en Afrique. D’un côté les commanditaires demandent que les populations locales soient consultées et que les droits des paysans soient pris en compte. Mais de l’autre, les chercheurs refusent de parler d’accaparement et dénoncent « un certain nombre de préjugés erronés diffusés par les médias sur ce qu’on a appelé l’accaparement des terres. ».
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Fondation FARM05 Jun 09FARM vous propose une note de lecture en français du rapport de l'IIED, qui reprend les principales conclusions et les complète par des détails sur certains contrats d’achat ou de vente de terre signés.
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![Les dangers de la ruée sur les meilleures terres d’Afrique]( "Les dangers de la ruée sur les meilleures terres d’Afrique")
Le Monde25 May 09Les investisseurs internationaux jettent leur dévolu sur les terres agricoles – les meilleures et les mieux irriguées. Elles constituent pourtant le moyen de subsistances des populations locales. Mais les gouvernements font peu de cas de celles-ci.
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![Food security fuels land grab, says report]( "Food security fuels land grab, says report")
Financial Times24 May 09Alarmed by exporters’ trade restrictions, food importing countries have realised that their dependence on the agricultural market makes them vulnerable not only to a surge in prices but, more crucially, to an interruption in supplies.
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Financial Times24 May 09African countries are giving away vast tracts of farmland to other countries and investors almost for free, according to a report published by IIED, IFAD and FAO
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Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest20 May 09A recent jump in rich country land purchases in the developing world has caught the attention of analysts in trade and human rights circles.