Depuis l'année 2000 et à l'échelle de la planète 26,7 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles sont passées dans les mains d'investisseurs étrangers.

Weather challenges in the region, called Matopiba after the first two letters of Maranhao, Tocantins, Piaui and Bahia states, shouldn’t have flabbergasted farmers and investors. What’s been surprising is the voracious appetite for planting there.

Almost ten years have after the term “land grabbing” first entered the popular imagination, large-scale land acquisitions remain shrouded in secrecy.

New report by the Land Matrix finds 26.7 million hectares of agricultural land around the world have been transferred to foreign investors since the year 2000. Report details who is buying farmland in which regions of the world and how this land is being used.

Petition calls for Malawi government to withdraw court case against the People's Land Organisation, which is claiming reparations from the tea estates in Thyolo and Mulanje for the forced labour that their fore parents were subjected to in the estates by the colonial settlers.

The head of Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service has revealed that deforestation by two illegal cocoa and oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon has caused US$111 million of damage.

In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shape.

The TucFrut property, located 140 miles South of Santiago, consists of five different farms spread over 1,000 hectares and currently produces apples, blueberries and kiwifruit on over 660 hectares.

Chinese-backed company Harmony Beef and Cattle is buying the Earl of Stradbroke's grand rural property Mt Fyans in the Western District of Victoria for about $34 million.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart and a minority Chinese partner agreed to buy Australia’s most iconic cattle company in a deal valued at about A$365 million ($277 million).

Anywaa Survival Organisation is greatly concerned about the worsening security situation in Ethiopia and the government's criminalisation of food security, land and human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents.

Chinese investors are rushing to invest in agriculture in Cambodia, drawn by ideal farming conditions and the sound relationship between the two countries.