Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.

On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.

China may set up large pork and chicken operations in Australia as it strives to keep up a burgeoning demand for meat among Chinese consumers.

"We request the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to conduct an independent study on the impact of MIFEE and other similar businesses to Indigenous Peoples in Merauke and around the world."

The World Bank's principles, which would be entirely voluntary, aim to distract from the fact that today's global food crisis, marked by more than 1 billion people going hungry each day, will not be solved by large scale industrial agriculture, which virtually all of these land acquisitions aim to promote.

In Ethiopia, farms backed by foreign investors are growing with abundance, while native farmers subsist on food aid.

Domestic and international investors are taking over increasing amounts of arable land in Mali.

Indonesia will require investors in food crop production to get local government permission before developing farms or estates in order to prevent land disputes.

Conference developed to respond to the growing interest in farmland asset management.

Agriculture is suddenly on every end investor’s radar, and many are dipping their toes in the water through pure farmland investment.

The supposed win-win formula raises many problems, doubts and concerns.

Saudi Arabia is interested in investing in Zambia's agriculture sector in order to improve the food security of the two countries. Zambia says they have plenty of land for this.