Australia's center-left Labor government said Tuesday it will examine foreign ownership of the country's rural land and agricultural food production in response to a spate of takeovers that have triggered anxiety about job losses and broader concerns about food security.
One of the conditions for major agricultural holdings with significant assets in Russia entering the securities market through the performance of an IPO and SPO is the confirmation of their rights to use the land for agricultural production.
Private investments are being pumped into several countries to produce fruit, vegetables, rice and corn and meet Bahrain's demand for these commodities
Government and private sector are creating pilot farms as an inventive to investors to either come and buy existing yielding projects, expand them or to run them as joint public-private ventures.
Public forum calls for suspension of foreign land grabs in the Office du Niger, Mali.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union believes as many as a thousand skilled South African farmers could go to plough their own furrow in Georgia where the government is offering them 80,000 ha
New Zealand's need for overseas capital does not mean giving away control or ownership of farms, says Fonterra chairman.
Anuradha Mittal talks about land grabbing
Video of Via Campesina action at the FAO headquarters in October 2010
Sojitz will lease 11,000 hectares of farmland cultivating soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops in the Pampas region and may expand to 200,000 hectares.
Abu Dhabi Sources will be going up against well established trading houses, including Glencore, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus.
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
