The £9bn Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.

Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.

Thousands of residents of Amuru District community, in Uganda, could soon lose their land after Gulu High Court ruled that over 40,000 hectares be given to Madhvani Group of companies to grow sugarcane.

A few hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between Nigeria's Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.

The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.

The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.

On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.

China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.

China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.

The demonstrators say the global lender’s principles of responsible agricultural investment, known as RAI, fail in their stated objective to protect rights of small farmers.

Uncertainty continues over the rules that will govern foreign ownership of Brazilian farmland in the future. Indeed, the debate seems to have regressed and polarized over the last six months with legislators locked over the constitutionality of restrictions.

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for centuries.