"A lot of money is going into (land) speculation; this has worsened the situation," says Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
An inter-ministerial fact-finding committee from Yaounde has inspected the palm nurseries and other investment sites of the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Limited (SC-SOC) located in the South West Region of Cameroon.
The foreign ownership debate in Australia needs to evolve to – or be merged with – a broader debate about the future of the agricultural sector.
There are a number of “pending agreements” between the two countries aimed to build grain silos and lease of agriculture land in Ukraine to Qatari investors.
Foreigners will not be allowed to own land in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said during his state-of-the-nation address to Parliament on Thursday. He said they would instead be eligible for long-term leases.
The land market in Romania is left to chance, any occasional businessman being free to trade arable or forest land as long as they have a good lawyer or are up to paying a bribe to some civil servant.
China's largest privately owned agribusiness company and the Perich family from Sydney are looking to buy a $100 million dairy in western New South Wales.
"The core of the protest is about preventing the sale of Polish agricultural land that might happen from 2016 if the current law continues. This will expose Polish land to be bought by foreign buyers and will threaten small farmers."
The cancellation of controversial flawed land leases in Papua New Guinea has been halted, leaving traditional landowners unsure of when they will get their land back.
Amatheon Agri, a Berlin based agribusiness and farming company, is set to embark on a countrywide expansion of grain production in Zimbabawe after a successful pilot maize farming project
Australia's new threshold on foreign investment in agriculture would be cumulative, so someone with a $14m investment would have to seek approval before trying to purchase an additional $1m property.
The Coalition has increased scrutiny of foreign purchases of rural land, but how much is currently owned overseas and are the concerns valid?
