Groups issue sign-on letter calling on the World Bank to stop funding oil palm plantations.

Expanding the acreage of organically farmed land to 20% would increase the EU's virtual land importation by 30%. And policies to achieve the EU’s 10% biofuel objective would also increase the rate of EU land-grabs.

A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013

Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.

AgroGeneration, groupe agricole spécialisé dans la production de céréales et d’oléagineux en Ukraine, a produit 55 000 tonnes de céréales (blé, maïs, orge, colza, tournesol) en 2009, contre 18 000 tonnes un an plus tôt.

Foreign donors are promoting land registration in Papua New Guinea to facilitate a farmland grab, under the guise of agricultural development.

Immediate projects to be promoted under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund might concern livestock production in the East Coast Economic Region, according to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Les craintes soulevées par la possible vente massive de terres agricoles du Québec à des intérêts chinois sont exagérées selon une étude du Mouvement Desjardins.

A new report argues that the EU has become the world's largest net importer of agricultural produce, and therefore the largest user of agricultural land that is not its own.

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.

Uma reportagem publicada no jornal Valor Econômico, nesta terça-feira, demonstra as diferentes faces da ação do capital financeiro sobre a agricultura brasileira, como os "fundos de investimentos de operação agrícola", que querem controlar a produção agrícola e ampliar seus lucros.

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.

La nouvelle loi algérienne sur l’exploitation des terres agricoles consacre deux principes majeurs : la concession d’une durée de seulement 40 ans renouvelables et l’exclusivité de la jouissance aux Algériens.

Contract covers the lease of 27,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.

Saudi Arabian Agriculture Minister Fahd Bin Abdul-rahman Bin Sulaiman Balghunaim said at the summit that Saudi Arabia was planning to invest in Algeria's agriculture, like Egypt and Sudan.