Le gouverneur de la Banque centrale de Nouvelle-Zélande a émis quelques réserves lundi à propos du rachat par des entreprises étrangères, et notamment chinoises, de terres agricoles néo-zélandaises

New Zealand's government announced on Monday it will place new controls on overseas investors buying large land holdings.

The fact is, Madagascar agriculture must rely on foreign capital, despite the risk of problems from farmland deals, according to Masanobu Furuya of the Asahi Shimbum

Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.

Jacques Tavora Alfonsin, advogado do MST e procurador aposentado do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, comenta parecer da Advocacia Geral da União, aprovado pela Presidência da República e publicado dia 23 de agosto passado, sobre as bases legais que autorizam a União a limitar o poder de adquirir terra, no Brasil.

Gobierno de una de las provincias de la Patagonia Argentina entrega en concesión 200.000 hectareas para la seguridad alimentaria de China, con el aval del gobierno nacional y un crédito del BID

"On a même vendu nos cimetières aux Chinois", s'insurge Faliry Boly, président de la plate-forme des producteurs de riz du Mali.

Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.

La meilleure réponse aux conséquences graves de l’accaparement des terres, selon COPAGEN, est de faire en sorte que les paysannes et paysans petits producteurs trouvent plus rentable d’exploiter leurs terres que de les céder massivement pour tenter de survivre.

AGRA paper on land grabbing in Indonesia, during the period 2004-2010, for food and agrofuels production (in Bahasa Indonesia only).

Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.

India's Karuturi plans to emerge as a leading player in agriculture in the African continent, with revenues from agriculture trumping revenues from floriculture in two years.

"What China needs is safe, healthy Chinese milk and it starts all the way up stream with farming," Fonterra's CEO Andrew Ferrier said.

El BM afirmó que la investigación sería sobre 30 países, pero únicamente fue sobre 14. Parece que las empresas se negaron a compartir información acerca de sus inversiones en tierras de cultivo.

Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.