Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.

In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.

The 1317 hectare farm was sold in 2014, on the advice of the Overseas Investment Office, to Ceol & Muir, a company established with the help of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria and Asian Peasant Coalition welcome Indonesian President's announcement to ban new oil palm permits but reiterate call to stop oil palm plantations.

Ramakrishna Karuturi has mocked plans to sell off his Naivasha-based flower farm, saying the liquidation procedure will not affect his ownership of the land, which is held through separate subsidiaries.

Special issue of World Development suggests a key feature of Brazilian and Chinese engagements in African agriculture is the role of state–business relations in shaping and steering development, suggesting new forms of developmentalism.

While Duterte intends to liberalize the entry of foreign investments in the country, he said he does not want to touch the constitutional limit on foreign land ownership.

The development of an oil palm plantation, which was thought to have been pretty much abandoned by the American company that ran it, has resumed in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, according to satellite data released by Greenpeace.

A group of community leaders from Colombia, Liberia, Indonesia and Peru have been raising awareness in Europe of the human and environmental impact of palm oil plantations on their communities. Radio interview with Ali Kaba of Liberia's Sustainable Development Institute.

Four years on, what has been done to realise these principles? What are the current debates surrounding implementation of the VGGT? What challenges and obstacles have emerged, and how are they being addressed and resolved in different contexts?

The lack of tenure over ancestral lands lies at the root of violent clashes on land leased to foreign palm oil producers in Liberia, a leading researcher said.

Kazakh National Economy Minister Yerbolat Dossayev resigned on May 5 after almost two weeks of protests against amendments to the Land Code that critics say would enable foreigners to buy more land.

One of the country’s largest flower farms Karuturi limited has officially been closed, with receiver managers and liquidators moving in to wind up the farm.

The processes of the Overseas Investment Office are proving to be a barrier to some companies looking to buy New Zealand land.

Kremlin says 51% of the $9.8bn management company will be held by the Russian Federation and 49% by Chinese partners and specifies that land can only be provided to Russian companies for agricultural production.

Déforestation, spoliation des terres, conditions de travail… Le groupe belgo-luxembourgeois, dont l'homme d'affaires français est actionnaire, concentre les critiques sur la gestion de ses plantations.

WFFP vient de publier le compte rendu d'un atelier sur la lutte contre l’accaparement des océans

Un projet de loi sur les propriétés privées titrées en cours de discussion au niveau ministeriel contient un article qui cherche à donner les mêmes droits d’accès à la propriété foncière aux Malgaches et aux étrangers.

Des investigations récentes de Greenpeace montrent que les forêts camerounaises et libériennes sont elles aussi menacées par les activités de la Socfin.

A la tête de 200.000 hectares de plantations, Luc Boedt, CEO de Socfin, défend sa politique agricole en Afrique, souvent critiquée par des ONG.

Yonatan Tesfaye a dénoncé un possible accaparement de terres dans la région d’Oromia, ce qui n’est pas un crime, et encore moins du terrorisme

Le rachat de terres agricoles françaises par des fonds de gestion chinois est "un danger pour l'autonomie et la souveraineté alimentaire de la France" selon Thierry Pouch

Aux côtés des étrangers, des grandes fortunes françaises achètent des propriétés viticoles.

Dans le secteur de l'acquisition des terres agricoles de la planète, la Chine a un "appétit gigantesque", déclare Laurent Desbonnets sur le plateau de France 2.

Une nouvelle exploitation agricole française d’une centaine d’hectares vient de tomber dans l’escarcelle d’investisseurs chinois.

Aujourd’hui, les Cambodgiens quittent leur pays parce qu’ils n’ont plus de terre pour nourrir leur famille.

Des communautés du Pérou, de Colombie, d'Indonésie et du Liberia demandent aux Européens de "cesser de financer des entreprises associées à des acquisitions illégales de terre".

La Compagnie agricole de Saint-Louis, filiale du groupe français Arthur Straight investissement, veut s’implanter sur plus de 4 000 ha au Sénégal

La paralización en Australia de la venta de una gran extensión de terreno a un consorcio chino reaviva el temor a un nuevo colonialismo.

Entre el 25 de abril y el 4 de mayo delegados de Indonesia, Perú, Colombia y Liberia, entre otros países exigieron en Londres que la Unión Europea ponga fin a las violaciones de derechos humanos y al acaparamiento de tierras vinculados a las empresas de palma de aceite, que en su mayoría consume la UE.

La compra de tierras agrícolas en África o Asia resultó un negocio decepcionante y los inversores miran ahora hacia países ricos como Australia, Francia o Estados Unidos.

Empresas que se instalaram em Moçambique através de projetos exportados pelo Brasil avançam sobre as terras dos camponeses enquanto o país, em crise, se afasta dos programas de cooperação.