Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.

Empresas alimentarias españolas apuestan por producir en el exterior para abastecer el mercado nacional y los de terceros países

Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.

It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.

Almost half the farmland bought in Britain last year was snapped up by banks and funds.

The Zardari government is on trial with respects to three developments, of which the possible lease of land to Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, because they are of historical significance for Pakistan.

A significant percentage of the manual labour force on arable land in Pakistan is female. If we lease this land to Saudi Arabia -- a country where women are not allowed to drive cars, vote, work in public places with a namehram -- to do with as it pleases -- will there still, across the proposed acreage reportedly twice the size of Hong Kong, be room for them?

China's agricultural investments strategies in Africa are not as self-serving as some critics argue.

The discussion “Land Grab or Development opportunity?” has just been launched at by FAO's Global Food Security and Nutrition Forum and invites members to comment and share their views on the issue of foreign acquisitions of developing countries’ farmland.

The government is preparing a regulation which will put some restrictions on foreign investment in the food industry, including on the length of the investment, and the joint ownership with local firms.

AgriSA expects to sign a 35,000 hectare land deal with the Libyan government in October.

A multi-million hectare land deal allowing South Africans to farm in the Republic of Congo is expected to be finalised by mid October, South Africa's main farmers union said on Wednesday.