Part of the $210 million that the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund and the Carlyle Group will invest in the Export Trading Group will be invested in Mbeya rice farms In Tanzania, where the group would cultivate rice and barley.

Black Earth Farming lauded the Russian government's decision to keep grain export markets open, despite a poor national harvest, crediting it for helping the group achieve its best quarterly results as a listed company.

Après la Chine, c'est au tour de l'Arabie saoudite d'inquiéter les associations face à l'accaparement des terres.

The New Zealand government will set up a NZ$6 million model dairy farm in Burma/Myanmar, Prime Minister John Key says.

Kenana Sugar Company announces the launch of MAHASEEL Agricultural Investment Fund, an agricultural investment fund with estimated $1 billion in collaboration with CIFG an international financial group, a subsidiary of France's Groupe Caisse d'Épargne.

You might be interested to look at the Global Strategic Framework (GSF) which was endorsed by the FAO Committee on Food Security 39th Session in October.

Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on sales of farmland by three years to January 2016, giving time to prepare related legislation.

A bill presented before Colombia's congress on Tuesday seeks to increase regulation of foreign investment in Colombia's land and agriculture.

Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.

After almost three years of negotiations that involved governments, civil society organisations (CSOs) and other groups, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security was officially endorsed on 11 May 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Les autorités d’Australie de l’Ouest vont signer le 20 novembre un bail de 50 ans avec une société immobilière de Shanghai, chargée de développer 15.200 hectares de terres agricoles.

The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.

Le gouvernement de la République du Mali a bien voulu mettre à la disposition de l’UEMOA, sous forme de bail emphytéotique, 11 288 hectares de terres dont 2 174 ha sur le site de Touraba.

Report in Finnish on the global landgrab, published by Kepa

For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.