The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.

Het totale areaal landbouwgrond dat van oorsprong Nederlandse land- en tuinbouwbedrijven in de afgelopen decennia in gebruik hebben genomen in het buitenland is ongeveer 500.000 hectare, dat is ongeveer gelijk aan 25% van het totale landbouwareaal in Nederland.

The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.

On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.

China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.

China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.

A l’occasion d’un colloque organisé, ce mercredi 1er février à Londres, par Rights and Ressources Inititative (RRI), -une coalition internationale d’ONG-, une étude révèle que la faiblesse des systèmes fonciers met en danger les communautés rurales africaines et les expose à l’appétit des grandes multinationales agricoles.

The demonstrators say the global lender’s principles of responsible agricultural investment, known as RAI, fail in their stated objective to protect rights of small farmers.

Terre pubbluiche e sequestro del diritto a produrre

Uncertainty continues over the rules that will govern foreign ownership of Brazilian farmland in the future. Indeed, the debate seems to have regressed and polarized over the last six months with legislators locked over the constitutionality of restrictions.

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for centuries.

La Russie pourrait louer plusieurs millions d'hectares de terres agricoles non utilisées à des investisseurs asiatiques.

Kwara State Governor Ahmed has signed and MOU with Vasolar Consortium of Spain for the cultivation, processing and packaging of rice, with the state providing 20,000 ha of land.

The six case studies compiled in this report illustrate the wide range of approaches and focus that private funds are adopting (legal structure, geography, agricultural production and operating strategies) to invest in farmland in different parts of the world.

The extent of the surge in UK farmland prices has driven foreign buyers and pension funds to the sidelines, leaving farmers to pay prices more than double those three years ago, property consultancy Savills said.