As PrimeAg Australia's $125 million sale of rural properties to US fund manager TIAA-CREF goes through, the question now being raised by investors is what will happen to the residual portfolio.

Mugabe government is very reasonable about the perception of commercial agriculture being in foreign hands, says Standard Chartered.

KPMG’s Anthony Thunstrom says private equity is buying up significant agriculture interest in Africa because that is the remaining arable land on the planet.

The issue on land grabbing and global governance contains 14 articles: introductory essay, 8 original research articles and 5 review articles of transnational instruments to regulate land grabs.

Communities have more hope than ever of seeing off companies trying to acquire their land, with support from media and NGOs.

If there is “blood diamond”, there is also such a thing as “blood maize”, “blood soya” and “blood pulses”.

PrimeAg Australia has agreed to sell 60 per cent of its land and water portfolio to US financial services organisation TIAA-CREF for up to $126 million.

Where will Cambodia find enough land for the next generation?

Describing itself as a consultant and “master distributor” of products designed “to bring working capital to a variety of projects” – including upgrading farmland overseas and forestry –Intelligent Partnership published a 76 page report on the alternatives sector this week.

Fracking is an expression of the water and land grabbing agenda already underpinning expanding corporate takeover of natural resources, write Jennifer Franco, Timothé Feodoroff and Ana Maria Rey Martinez

Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.

This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure