Korea wants to secure a total of 380,000 hectares of overseas farmland by 2018, the agriculture ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. Priority countries include the Philippines, Cambodia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Russia.

Asian investors have overtaken Europeans as the biggest buyers of Australian land, a snapshot of foreign acquisitions reveals.

Após a parceria com empresas chinesas para a instalação de uma industria esmagadora de soja na Bahia, o estado já se prepara para fechar um acordo com a Coreia do Sul. O governo da Bahia não descarta investimentos na produção e em compra de terras.

Investors from South Korea have entered into discussions with the Ekiti State Government to invest in the agriculture sector in the state to the tune of about $400 million -- and 30,000 hectares.

Several Shawi communities have learned that a Korean company, ECOAMERICA, has applied for the registration and titling of over 72,000 ha of land in their territories, at a price of 80 cents a hectare, for agriculture and logging.

A new report from the Samsung chaebol advocates a Korean domestic and international food revolution

The South Koreans are looking for as much as 100,000 in idle agricultural land in the Philippines that can be planted to crops for domestic consumption and for export.

Tanzania should seize the opportunity of rising food prices by investing in smallholder farmers and allow large scale foreign investors targeting exports, Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT) Chairman, Salum Shamte has said.

An interview with Mamy Rakotondrainibe, an activist with the Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, about the struggle against land grabbing in Madagascar.

Mamy Rakotondrainibe, un activista clave del Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, explica la lucha contra el acaparamiento de tierras en Madagascar

Entretien avec Mamy Rakotondrainibe, membre du Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, à propos de la lutte contre l'accaparement des terres à Madagascar.

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.