Agriculture-related businesses worldwide, from farms in South America to dairy factories in the Netherlands, may soon find themselves in the sights of a new mega investor – China Investment Corp.

The Turkish General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises and an institution from Sudan will establish a joint-venture company that will rent 780,000-hectares of land for the long-term in Sudan.

Australia’s big four banks are backing companies accused of kicking people off their land, leaving them homeless and hungry.

Interview with Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, chairman and managing director Karuturi Global Limited.

RAI Novosti reports that the heads of the Razgulay Group, Russia's largest farmland holder, have been arrested for fraud.

One of Australia's big banks is facing scrutiny it financed a Cambodian sugar business responsible for forcing almost 500 families off their land.

Australia’s major banks are funding large-scale illegal “land grabs” in the developing world and enabling illegal logging, child labour or other human rights abuses.

NZ Farming Systems Uruguay, the South American dairy unit of Singapore-based Olam International, has sold some 7,771 hectares of farm land in Uruguay to local interests.

Nyikaw Ochalla outlines the disparaging treatment towards locals in Gambela as he highlights government as well as Karuturi’s complacency towards the displaced locals.

Mali says it will supply 10,000 hectares in the Office du Niger zone for agricultural exploitation by Moroccan financiers.

The problem is often not so much regulations as the failure to implement them or a lack of practical control, write Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag.

Egypt plans to lease 25,000 hectares of agricultural land to Arab investors.