On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.

Amatheon, a company part owned by the German holding company Sapinda, grows wheat and soya beans on 30,000 ha that it has leased in Zambia.

International and Honduran CSOs condemn the response of the International Finance Corporation to the highly critical findings of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman regarding the IFC’s investment in Corporación Dinant in Honduras

The Tanzanian government is not eager to parcel out too much land to transnational corporations, writes the Tanzania Daily News.

Dominion farm is one of the biggest agricultural activity in Siaya County and it is difficult to believe that the land it is sitting on was a few years back just a swamp.

Some say the agribusiness Gadco's presence in eastern Ghana is the best thing that's ever happened in the region. Others fear that there are accidents waiting to happen.

Farmers in Cambodia say a European free trade initiative set up to boost the Cambodian economy has instead forced them off their land.

Farmers and civic groups in Mozambique urged Japan during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Africa to halt an agricultural program it is promoting in their country that they say could result in land grabbing.

In the competition for water between farmers on the one hand and cities and industries on the other, the economics do not favor agriculture

US natural and organic food group Hain Celestial has acquired premium Basmati rice manufacturer Tilda Ltd, which operates an 1,100 ha rice plantation in Uganda.

Transport costs have made the country’s agriculture industry uncompetitive. But new infrastructure projects should transform the opportunities some have seen in land values.

This year could see a surge in interest in farmland from investors with very little experience in this complicated asset class, reports Euromoney