Smithfield Foods won national security clearance on Friday for its proposed $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to a takeover.

Hundreds of families remain displaced despite government promises to give land to thousands of people evicted two and a half years ago to make way for sugar and palm oil plantations.

Gregory Myers, division chief of the US Agency for International Development’s land tenure and property rights division, argues that, done right, large-scale land acquisitions can boost development.

Two Chinese-Canadian entrepreneurs that have been investing in farmland in Manitoba say they will establish an agricultural fund for Chinese investors who want to own a piece of Canada’s agriculture industry.

Undermining food security is a joint venture of Colombian and foreign investors, says IUF.

Changes to the law in Romania will prevent individuals from owning more than 100 hectares of unincorporated farmland and will oblige them to show proof of agricultural knowledge and experience.

Joan Baxter profiles Indian national Chinnakannan Sivasankaran and his quest to make his Siva Group into the largest player in the production of palm oil by leasing land and establishing oil palm plantations from Papua New Guinea to Sierra Leone to South America.

Entre le Caucase et la mer Noire, le groupe familial français cultive l’équivalent de la surface de Paris.

Une enquête d’opinion réalisée par le réseau Afrobaromètre révèle que 70% des sénégalais considèrent que la terre est une ressource nationale et sont défavorables à la cession des terres aux étrangers.

In less than ten years, agricultural land granted by the Government of Madagascar, often unilaterally and completely opaque, has run up to hundreds of thousands of hectares.

Une cinquantaine de militants ont manifesté ce mercredi matin devant le Parlement européen, à Bruxelles, pour dénoncer la spéculation sur les produits alimentaires et les terres arables, ainsi que le recours aux agrocarburants dans le secteur des transports.

The Land Policy Initiative will host a workshop on 30 September to evaluate recommendations arising from a study by Dalberg Global Development Advisors, which has developed a high level strategy and business plan; as well as an M&E framework to guide the implementation of the African Union declaration on land.