GCC trade and investment flows: The emerging-market surge

• EIU
• 22 Mar 2011

Report says that GCC investment in farmland in Africa and Latin America will continue to grow.

Middle East's investments in African farmlands are rooted in food security fears

• Knowledge@Wharton
• 22 Mar 2011

The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.

Resident Minister condemns MP for incitement against Government

• Awoko
• 22 Mar 2011

Political turmoil over Sierra Leone MP's nationwide broadcast inciting the people of Malen Chiefdom against the Government and the local Chiefs for having entered into a land deal with Luxembourg-based SOCFIN.

Hassad Food seeks Turkish farmland, invests $500 million in 2010

• Bloomberg
• 21 Mar 2011

Qatar’s Hassad Food, a unit of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, plans to purchase farmland in Turkey to grow crops and raise livestock, the company’s chairman said.

Fears of foreigners buying up farmland are growing in Latin America

• National
• 21 Mar 2011

With nations such as China eyeing property all over the world, and with worries over food security growing, Brazil is discussing tightening laws that would make it harder for foreigners to purchase land.

Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush

• Guardian
• 21 Mar 2011

Locals move out as international contractors seize opportunities offered by government to lease farmland at knockdown rates

South Korea’s global food ambitions: Rural farming and land grabs

• Conducive
• 19 Mar 2011

How did this country turn from being one of the poorest post colonial states in the world to one of the largest land grabbers in recent years?

Qatari company eyes Turkish agricultural land

• The Hurriyet
• 18 Mar 2011

Hasat Hud, a state-supported Qatari company, wants to buy vast swaths of public land in Turkey to invest in agriculture and husbandry.

How 'land-grabbing' is wrecking lives

• Guardian
• 18 Mar 2011

What happens when you are forced to leave the land that has fed your family for generations? What is the impact of wealthy foreigners having access to the best agricultural land in a very poor country? These questions addressed in new Guardian film.

Zuellig Group to secure it’s own feed milling requirement with corn production

• All About Feed
• 18 Mar 2011

Zuellig Group will set up a 30,000-hectare corn plantation in the Philippines to ensure that its own feed milling requirements are met.

Brazil tightens land acquisition by foreigners: ‘speculators and sovereign funds’

• MercoPress
• 17 Mar 2011

The Brazilian government now prohibits non-Brazilians from buying controlling shares of companies that own vast tracts of territory in the country, Attorney General Luiz Inacio Adams said this week.

Betting the farm – and winning

• Macleans
• 17 Mar 2011

Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.