The new division will include the firm’s global real estate, agriculture, timber, infrastructure and energy teams, as well as its subsidiaries, such as the Westchester Group Investment Management and GreenWood Resources.

Kazakh authorities recently amended farm sector legislation allowing the country to prolong land leases for foreign investors from 10 to 25 years.

Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Tuesday told Parliament that Bangladesh had started ‘contract farming’ in the African countries with appointment of 11 Bangladeshi farmers in Zambia.

Kurt Langbein, director of a documentary film, “Land Grabbing“ visits the scenes of land grabs and talks to farmers, local communities and to the investors behind the schemes. The injustice of this destructive “development” model could not be clearer.

Jef Boedt, general manager of Socfin Cambodia, explains the company’s investment in Cambodia and operating challenges linked to land rights.

A caravan by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa will go across the region to get the voices of communities heard and engage national authorities to stop land grabbing

Analytical evaluation of effect of current land grabbing policy indicates destabilization of livelihood assets of rural communities of Oromia and Southern Ethiopia.

Cargill Inc subsidiary Black River Asset Management LLC announced on Monday the spinoff of a private equity firm focused on food and agriculture, including farmland investments.

support letter by members of the international “No! to ProSAVANA” campaign and of the “International Network of those Affected by Vale” to UNAC (União Nacional de Camponeses) in response to the threats and attempted physical attacks they suffered on 11 January 2016.

Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports

Polish Ministry of Agriculture proposes new legislation suspending for 5 years sales of the state owned agricultural land. The proposed legislation aims to strengthen the protection of agricultural land in Poland from speculative purchases by domestic and foreign buyers

Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation.