Les Amis de la Terre Europe ont publié le 19 janvier un rapport dans lequel ils démontrent que la spéculation sur les prix des matières premières et le financement d'acquisitions de foncier dans les pays pauvres accroissent la faim dans le monde et la pauvreté.

“There is no villagization programme,” Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder of Karuturi Global, told Mint via telephone. “This is a completely jaundiced western vision. They assume anything in Africa has to be done by the whites and the Chinese and Indians should have businesses only in their own countries.”

The inner workings of one of the NZ Government's most secret agencies, the Overseas Investment Office, could be blown open if it consents to a Chinese company buying the big Crafar dairy farming estate.

The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) strongly expresses it support to the Senyerang farmers for successfully taking back their land at Senyerang village in Tanjung Barat regency.

Canada could soon get its first exchange-traded farmland management stock.

Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.

Pourquoi les autorités africaines négligent-elles l’alimentation de leurs populations privilégiant les retombées financières provenant de ces locations et ventes des terres agricoles ?

A new report from ABARES which indicates little change in the level of foreign ownership of Australian farm land since the 1980s has been described as a "whitewash" by Shadow Agriculture and Food Security Minister, John Cobb.

Bahrain’s Nadir and Ibrahim Sons of Hassan Group has signed a $50 million agriculture investment deal with AMA Group Holdings to use public land to grow crops including sugar, rice and bananas.

Un rapport, publié le 18 janvier par le bureau australien de l'agriculture, relance la question de l'importance des investissements étrangers en Australie où 11,3% des terres agricoles (44 mds d'ha) appartiennent en partie ou totalement à des étrangers

Madagascar future entreprise (MFE) réfute une reprise de négociations sur l'acquisition de terrain par Daewoo.

Un conglomérat chinois a annoncé mercredi qu'il allait investir 1,3 milliard de dollars pour développer la culture du riz et du caoutchouc en Sierra Leone, le plus gros investissement jamais réalisé dans le secteur agricole dans ce pays.

Report calls for international community to enact reforms aimed at reducing financial speculation on commodities markets, limiting the further expansion of crops and land dedicated to biofuels, and halting “land grabs”.

Standard Chartered Bank’s Private Equity division has invested $74 million to acquire a minority stake in ETC Group Mauritius, one of the largest owners of African farmland.

Ethiopia has forced at least 70,000 people off their land so it can lease fertile fields to foreign investors, a move that has left some locals starving in barren, remote villages.