This policy brief gives a brief overview of the available evidence of large-scale Chinese investment in agriculture, then discusses the extent to which the purpose of such investment is to export produce back to China.

A l’issue de la dernière visite du Président de la République du Niger au Qatar, le Qatar a réitéré son vieux rêve «d’investir environ 300 millions de dollars dans le secteur de l’agriculture au Niger».

Face à la caméra, Olivier Combastet, le gérant de Pergam Finance explique avec candeur que « spéculer, c’est espérer ». Son aplomb a fait de lui la cible des associations qui dénoncent un « accaparement des terres ».

Some CSOs are using the media to paint an inaccurate and distorted picture of the World Bank Group’s work and they are questioning the motives of the conference, says the World Bank's Klaus Deininger.

Casi dos tercios de tierras para cultivo de alimentos adquiridas por gobiernos o empresas foráneas son destinadas a biocombustibles.

Convergencia : CNOP, UACDDDD, CAD, LJDH, AOPP contra los acaparamientos de tierras

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, l'ancien président du groupe de négoce du même nom, et son neveu Peter Mann ont créé une société avec la holding russe Sistema afin d'investir dans les terres agricoles en Russie où ils visent « 150.000 à 250.000 hectares à moyen terme »

The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”

Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

When the peasants of Sanamadougou and Saou began preparing their lands on 23 April 2012, they were very surprised when four of their leaders, including the village chief, were arrested and taken to the Brigade de gendarmerie in Markala.

Conferencia del Banco Mundial sobre Tierra y Pobreza - del 23 al 26 de abril en Washington

Family that sold Australia's biggest water licence in history has been selling its NSW farming operations and is setting up a new agricultural empire in the Blue Nile state in Sudan

"Caberá ao movimento popular do campo e aos povos indígenas empunhar bandeira de resistência a essa ofensiva do capital internacional sobre as terras do nosso continente".

Report looks at why it is vital to transform the secretive culture behind large scale land deals and sets out in detail what tools governments, companies and citizens can harness to ensure that this happens.

More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. But by 1992, China had overtaken the United States as the world’s leading meat consumer—-and it has not looked back since. Now China’s annual meat consumption of 71 million tons is more than double that in the United States. With U.S. meat consumption falling and China’s consumption still rising, the trajectories of these two countries are determining the shape of agriculture around the planet.