The chairman of Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board has likened his role to walking a barbed-wire tightrope, as he attempts to balance the interests of investors and the need for capital with community concern about foreign sales.

President Jinping offered $15 million agricultural assistance to Nigeria for the establishment of 50 Agricultural Demonstration Farms across the country.

Over 20,000 hectares of land have been made available for national and foreign entrepreneurs interested in investing in the agricultural sector in Angola's Matala Municipality, where a Dutch company is pursuing a large-scale potato farming project.

A Chinese company has acquired hundreds of hectares of cereal-producing farmland in central France. This unprecedented situation has provoked astonishment and anger in the farming community.

Indonesia's Agriculture Minister says his government will allocate two million hectares of land for cattle and maize and sugarcane plantations under the investment deal with Denmark.

According to the state government, Sokoto has signed a memorandum of understanding with Henan Province of China for the establishment of a demonstration farm and boosting of agriculture in the state.

Individuals and companies have bought about 9,000 hectares of arable land in Romania’s Arad county in the last 12 months, seven times more compared to the previous year.

World Bank accountability on forced resettlements resulting from its programs must be front and center at its spring meetings, taking place this week in Washington DC

Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.

The push to buy Australian farmland and buy into agribusinesses continues to grow, with one report showing an overall jump of $1.9 billion in proposed agricultural investment, year-on-year.

Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020.

Chinese investors will spend nearly $2.5 billion in agriculture and $1.7 billion in financial assets. In 2014, those were numbers were $32 million and $51 million respectively.

Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country.

Since 2012, TerraProject, a documentary photography collective based in Italy, has been producing the first global visual investigation on land investments. They now issue the first photographic book on land issues by TerraProject (photographs) and Cécile Cazenave (journalist).

More than 100 companies both local and overseas have registered for land concessions on state land in Champassak, Laos.

A Chinese-owned firm operating banana plantations has caused a water conflict in Chiang Rai's Phaya Meng Rai district.

La société Hongyang a acquis discrètement plusieurs terres agricoles dans le département de l'Indre. Ses réelles intentions, qui demeurent floues, suscitent l'incompréhension des exploitants locaux.

L’opérateur agricole Senhuile a installé récemment 12 nouveaux pivots à Ngnith, dans la région de Saint-Louis, pour développer la culture du maïs destiné au marché intérieur.

Un groupe chinois a acquis plusieurs centaines d’hectares de terres à céréales dans le Berry, en France. Une première, qui provoque stupeur et colère dans le monde agricole.

Selon le DG d’Agro Ressources, la préparation des terres pour la mise en place des champs de maïs et de manioc devraient débuter dans deux mois.

"Complément d’enquête" vous fait découvrir le côté obscur de son empire : plantations d’huile de palme, installations portuaires...

AgroGeneration, producteur de céréales et d'oléagineux en Ukraine, annonce la signature d'un contrat majeur de prépaiement pour une partie de sa récolte 2016 pour un maximum de 10 millions de dollars, avec la société Quadra Commodities

Alors que le foncier est à l’agenda politique de nombreux pays, le Gret identifie les défis à relever pour mieux protéger les droits fonciers des agricultures familiales en Afrique et émet quatre recommandations pour les acteurs de la coopération internationale.

El Gobierno de Nicaragua ofreció cuatro millones de hectáreas disponibles del territorio nacional durante la Ronda de Negocios y Foro Mediático Rusia-América Latina, que se desarrolló el 30 de marzo en Uruguay.

A gestora de private equity Proterra, ex- subsidiária de investimentos da gigante de commodities agrícolas Cargill, está estudando "várias oportunidades" para a compra de terras agrícolas no Brasil e em outras regiões da América Latina.

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