• La course aux terres, nouvel enjeu international
    • TV5Monde
    • 23 January 2013

    "Aujourd'hui, la partie la plus visible de l'iceberg reste l'accaparement de terres agricoles. Mais il ne faut pas oublier l'accaparement plus général des ressources puisque les populations locales sont privées de leur terre mais aussi de l'accès à des ressources vitales : eau, sous-sol, forêt..." explique Catherine Gaudard de CCFD-Terre solidaire

  • Investors look to plough cash into farmland
    • Euromoney
    • 23 January 2013

    An increasing number of investors are looking at their feet as they cast around for returns in a zero interest rate environment. Farmland is likely to become a more and more attractive asset class as food scarcity worsens and land becomes a precious commodity.

  • China must invest abroad for food security, forum told
    • SCMP
    • 22 January 2013

    With a need to import 100m tonnes of grain each year by 2020, Beijing needs to invest in global agricultural markets, experts say

  • Ethiopia's resettlement scheme leaves lives shattered and UK facing questions
    • Guardian
    • 22 January 2013

    A 'villagisation' programme that has been linked to the leasing of large tracts of land for commercial agriculture has left people from Ethiopia's Gambella region bereft of land and loved ones, casting donor support in an unflattering light

  • Brazilian agro-investments set to rise
    • Euromoney
    • 22 January 2013

    Valiance, a London-based asset manager, launched a fund in May 2012 that aims to invest in Brazilian farmland through a joint venture with Bovespa-listed farming company SLC Agrícola

  • Romanians confront land grab ‘scout’
    • arc2020
    • 21 January 2013

    As much as 10% of Romanian farmland could be in the hands of multinational businesses, but there are no official statistics to establish the full extent of the corporate takeover.

  • Investors plant funds in farmland
    • Financial News
    • 21 January 2013

    As institutions and private investors show increased interest in farmland, prices are rising.

  • New Zealand pension fund shops for offshore farm investments
    • Reuters
    • 21 January 2013

    New Zealand's state pension fund is looking at buying overseas farmland amid growing demand for food in emerging markets, and it is also interested in assets offered by struggling European banks as well as catastrophe insurance.

  • Au Liberia, la résistance paysanne s'organise entre les palmiers à huile
    • AFP
    • 20 January 2013

    Leurs terres cédées par le gouvernement aux planteurs malaisiens et indonésiens, des paysans du Liberia dénoncent des accords qui les ignorent: après 15 ans de guerre civile, des nouvelles luttes s'annoncent.

  • Estrangeiros têm US$ 60 bilhões em terras no Brasil
    • Diário do Amazonas
    • 20 January 2013

    Um relatório do Banco Central sobre investimentos no País, nas mãos da presidente Dilma, informa que estrangeiros já compraram US$ 60 bilhões em terras no Brasil.

  • Reclaman por acceso a tierras y en contra de la concentración
    • El Observador
    • 20 January 2013

    Los pequeños productores y trabajadores rurales de organizaciones de los departamentos uruguayos de Artigas, Salto y Paysandú reclamaron el cese de la extranjerización y concentración de la tierra

  • Big rally held in Berlin against industrialized farming
    • Press TV
    • 20 January 2013

    At the final rally the protesters denounced food speculations and land grabbing. They said the farmers need fair rules instead of a liberalization of agricultural markets.

  • Forest, mines, farmland: Liberia is for sale
    • AFP
    • 20 January 2013

    Liberia is selling itself slice by slice nine years after a terrible civil conflict finally came to an end, even though that could kindle tension among a population that often feels it is being sold out.

  • Destroying local livelihoods with Mifee
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 20 January 2013

    “We don’t want to work for palm oil companies, we want our forest back,” says Christianus Ungkujay

  • Bárcenas y otro ex tesorero del PP poseen un latifundio al norte de Argentina
    • El Mundo
    • 20 January 2013

    La conexión del dinero supuestamente 'negro' del PP con Argentina es 'vox pópuli' en el país sudamericano desde 1990. Aquel año saltó la noticia de que el valenciano Ángel Sanchís, en ese momento tesorero del partido, poseía un latifundio de 30.000 hectáreas en la provincia de Salta, al norte del país y justo en la frontera con Bolivia.

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