One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses.

Český fond půdy hopes to make 2,000 individual land acquisitions a year.

Israeli firm Agri Green will put $651 million into financing a 10,000 acre model farm. Eventually, private investors are expected to acquire one million acres under irrigation.

Some 33 percent of pollsters voted that family offices were showing the greatest appetite for the asset class, while 31 percent pointed to institutional investor demand.

Indonesian lawmakers are looking to restrict foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent, as the top palm oil producer tries to maximise land usage, protect indigenous people and tighten environmental controls.

An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company says it plans to grow rice in Cambodia

This pan-African parliamentarian campaign against land grabbing by investors from developed countries is the brainchild of Mr Sisa Njikelana, former member of the South African Parliament

Farmland ranked as the most attractive investment in a survey of 197 Czech and Slovak millionaires.

Jordanian Agriculture Minister Akef Zu'bu discussed on Tuesday with Jordan's Ambassador to Sudan Ayed Dararjh the investment prospects for the 168,000 dunums allocated by the Sudanese government to Jordan.

Some 4,000 hectares of farmland in Lithuania sold to a German institutional investor and leased back for 18 years.

Villagers from Kampong Chhnang were met with violence and arrests as they embarked on a march to the capital to seek a resolution to a land dispute with politically-connected KDC International.

US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF, under pressure to put cash to work after having raised $2bn for TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture, agreed to purchase 12,528 ha of farmland in Florida.