Atama Plantation of Malaysia will invest $US300 million to develop 470,000 ha, including 180,000 ha of palm groves in northern Congo.

India's ACIL Cotton Industries said it plans to invest nearly $15 million to start contract farming of crops like coffee, pulses, oilseeds, cereals, potato, sugarcane and vegetables through lease-hold agricultural land in Brazil, Congo and Ethiopia.

Food prices are soaring again and the highest risks of farmland expropriation remain in Latin America, while the greatest impact of the recent rally could be on land deals in Africa.

Au forum de Kolongo, presque 30 témoignages ont dénoncé les violences et la non prise en compte des réalités paysannes : personnes âgées battues, une femme enceinte de 5 mois a perdu son bébé sous les coups, opacité des tractations, obstruction à l’information.

Prime Minister Azarov says Ukraine won't be able to meet its demand for food without the revision of issues related to ownership in the agricultural sector

”Argentina will welcome investment from Bahrain in its agricultural sector so it can guarantee its own food security,” Ignacio Rossi Sammartino, of the Commercial Section at the Argentine Embassy, told Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry board members.

Madagascar is drawing farmer-entrepreneurs in large numbers from India’s breadbasket, Punjab and Haryana.

Abu Dhabi acquired 30,000 ha of Sudanese farmland last June through the ADFD to grow alfalfa, a crop used to feed cattle.

Libyan officials said that they could allocate 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors for production of wheat and corn.

In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.

Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.

El mundo asiste a una vertiginosa carrera de compra de tierras fértiles, sobre todo en África y Sudamérica.

The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa

"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.

Ce hold-up avait été révélé au grand public en juillet 2010 par Eveil Hebdo qui mettait en cause le président Ould Aziz sur le point de signer un décret qui pourrait octroyait 50 000 ha de terrain à la société saoudienne Tabouk-Eziraiya dans la commune de Boghé.