Director of agricultural investment at Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture says Karuturi is on the verge of collapsing in Ethiopia and that the company "has gone bankrupt following internal management crisis”
A Belgian and a Zimbabwean working for international agribusiness company Socfin Group have been shot during a protest over land rights in Sierra Leone.
China’s Xinyang Inhai company has rented 6,300 hectares of farmland in the Dangara and Yovon districts of the Khatlon province for cultivation of cotton and cereals.
San Diego County Employees Retirement Association plans to commit $275 million to $400 million to real assets including agriculture, mining, energy and timber in 2015.
The foreign ownership of agricultural land is a significant issue in many countries and is gaining increasing attention here in the United States.
Turkey's Ayka Investment is in the process of withdrawing its investment in cotton production in the Lower Omo Valley on the advice of its German customer Tchibo which has raised concerns about cotton projects in the area.
Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments
Lao authorities granted the first ‘land as equity' project to a Chinese entrepreneur for a 10,000 ha plantation in Phonthong district.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is labelling the Overseas Investment Office a rubber stamping machine, saying all 189 applications for overseas ownership of New Zealand land in the past two years have been approved.
What Obama administration officials need to realize is that the G8 New Alliance is fueling a rapidly growing trend where investors based in African cities are rapidly grabbing up land in rural communities by whatever means they can.
Focus on large-scale Chinese investments in African agriculture has fueled popular misperceptions of Chinese "land grabs" and overshadowed another phenomenon the rise of medium-scale private Chinese farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
As Indonesia’s national inquiry into land conflicts affecting indigenous peoples draws to a close, it has become clear that police brutality has become a serial feature and that legions of companies are operating without permits.
