Zimbabwe: Mugabe's white ally in land grab row

• Mail & Guardian
• 04 September 2015

Zimbabwean peasant farmers accuse Billy Rautenbach of destroying their livelihoods.

Resistance to an erroneous 'development' model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique

• Pambazuka
• 03 September 2015

Resistance to the controversial agricultural development programme in the Nacala corridor in the north of Mozambique is part of the broader forms of resistance sweeping across the country.

China plows big money into Australian agriculture

• Wall Street Journal
• 03 September 2015

Chinese investors increasingly explore a new natural-resource boom in Australia: agriculture, pouring in 632 million Australian dollars ($450 million), almost twice as much as the year before.

Will Africa feed China?

• All China Review
• 02 September 2015

In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, Deborah Brautigam discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development and investment.

ProSavana: Terra usurpada, vida roubada

• ADECRU
• 02 September 2015

ADECRU has just launched an online version of a documentary on this massive land grab in Mozambique

Why China's Ma Xingfa bought 705,700 hectares of northern Australia

• Australian Financial Review
• 01 September 2015

Chinese billionaire is looking to expand overseas and potentially take part in the next big boom, which he says just might be Australian agriculture as Chinese people seek out higher-quality food products.

Connecting land grabs and land reform in Scotland and the African continent

• CommonSpace
• 01 September 2015

There are parallels between Scotland's battle for land reform and a global effort to regain land control.

More land goes into foreign hands for dairying

• Scoop
• 31 August 2015

European interests extending their dairy holdings in New Zealand are among the latest land sale approvals for foreign buyers, says New Zealand First.

Chinese entrepreneurs visit Tonga

• Matangi
• 31 August 2015

The Chinese delegation was interested in setting up businesses in Tonga that could process cassava into starch as well cultivating mushrooms for export.

Kingfisher locks in gains as funding hits triggers

• Pensions Expert
• 31 August 2015

Last year trustees added a global farmland fund managed by Insight Investment Management to the Kingfisher pension scheme.

Large-scale agricultural investments threaten right to food of small-scale farmers in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands

• 31 August 2015

New report published by Misereor is based upon first-hand interviews with farmers in four villages of Tanzania’s Southern Highlands utilizing a right to food framework.

Ag pays off for super-backed fund

• Financial Review
• 31 August 2015

The Sustainable Agriculture Fund, backed by Australia's biggest superannuation funds, has delivered a $4.7 million full year profit and recorded a small rise in the value of its rural property holdings