Oficialmente, 844 mil hectares estão sob o controle dos “gringos”, seja através de arrendamento ou mesmo de aquisições feitas por empresários rurais, grupos ou corporações internacionais.

Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.

Agroindustriales extranjeros compraron o arrendaron más de un millón de hectáreas de tierra en Bolivia en los últimos años. Los brasileros habrían adquirido cerca de 700 mil hectáreas; los argentinos, 100 mil hectáreas; y menonitas y japoneses, otras 200 mil has.

Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.

Los ejes que en que se centra la mesa son el Ibera es un patrimonio de los correntinos, la negativa al proyecto Ayuí Grande y a la extranjerización de la tierra

O levantamento do Incra aponta também que Mato Grosso é o que apresenta maior concentração de terras por proprietários de fora do país. Isto quer dizer que, com o passar do tempo, o interesse pelo território aumentou e a introdução do capital de outros países estabeleceu uma competição com os produtores nacionais.

Sudanese officials have set aside 17,000 hectares of land in White Nile state for an Egyptian meat project.

A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.

World food security fears may be driving the foreign rush to buy Australian farmland and agribusinesses, says Nationals' leader, Warren Truss.

The Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 ha of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.

A new report is released this week to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.

Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia

Con un alegato a favor de que la venta de tierras a ciudadanos extranjeros cese en Bolivia, el investigador de Fundación TIERRA, Miguel Urioste, reclama al Estado un mayor control de este comercio que realizan las familias bolivianas, amparadas en un marco jurídico débil y poco claro.

One of the problems with so-called ‘land grabs’ is secrecy. Most of the contracts that seal such deals are hidden from public scrutiny, which makes it very hard to establish what is really going on.

Mauritius has access to more than 120,000 hectares of farming land in Mozambique and an expression of interest from potential agricultural entrepreneurs was launched last year.