Global Economic Symposium, to be held 4-6 October in Kiel, Germany, will have a special session on land grabbing.

Qui n’a pas récemment entendu à la radio une publicité vantant les mérites de placements agricoles en Argentine ou en Ukraine de tel ou tel fond d’investissement ?

Who has not recently heard a radio advertisement from one investment fund or another extolling the virtues of agricultural investments in Argentina or the Ukraine?

Review of US farmland prices from an investor perspective

Summary report of the conference hosted June 17, 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland

The private-equity firm has a 250,000-acre (101,181-hectare) farm in southern Sudan and a similar-sized area of land in the north.

Global X has filed paperwork with the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission for a “Global X Farmland & Timberland ETF.”

La temática de extranjerización de la tierra se debate hace algunos años, en Bolivia apenas ha comenzado a ser abordada desde círculos académicos y periodísticos; sin embargo, el dialogo sobre estas tendencias poco o nada ha llegado a las organizaciones sociales.

Karuturi Global is hiring Punjabi farmers to leave India and farm its large holdings in Ethiopia

Experts urged the Sindh government to consider a few policies, which included supporting small growers, giving state land to landless women and men haris and an immediate end to leasing out land to other countries.

Hassad plans to spend $US350 million ($318 million) in Australia to secure food supplies for Qatar, which imports 95 per cent of its food.

Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".