With climate change and rising demand for biofuels pushing up food prices, rich countries are increasingly looking for land in poorer nations to feed themselves. But is this at the expense of the host country?
The G-20 could call for a moratorium on large-scale agriculture investments until an agreement on appropriate ground rules is reached, says Olivier DeSchutter
Shanghai Pengxin Group, a Chinese property developer and owner of agriculture and mining ventures, is seeking to buy 16 dairy farms in New Zealand after the government rejected an earlier bid by another Chinese company.
The Zambian Development Agency signed off the virgin land to a firm called Menafea Holding which will grow pineapples and produce juice
Deal adds to anger over decision just a week earlier to cede some 1,100 square kilometers of Tajik land to China.
Due to the food security issues currently plaguing Arab nations, the project is generating immense interest among GCC investors, says Malaysian official.
Shanghai real-estate mogul Jiang Zhaobai wants to buy the family farms from receivers and predicts a bright future for food producers.
The company was granted a 220,000 ha concession in Liberia in 2009 and will begin planting oil palm on 10,000 hectares in April.
In this month's Global development podcast, the Guardian looks at land grabs, explores why they are happening, considers their implications and examines what – if anything – can be done to ensure large-scale agricultural investments are used for local development.
Adecoagro is based in Luxembourg, but it is one of the biggest farmland owners in Latin America with holdings worth about $784 million
What are the implications when one of China's most powerful agribusiness firms starts acquiring thousands of hectares of land in the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina for the production of soyabeans, wheat, and oilseed rape to ship back to China?
“Our king has asked that the government and the private sector go and invest in countries that have high agricultural production potential,” says Saudi central bank governor.
