Anthony "Chocfinger" Ward, the commodities trader whose group Armajaro Holdings has just cornered the cocoa market, is planning his next move into food.

A farmland development group backed by Jacob Rothschild is to become the first Brazilian company to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange

A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.

La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.

Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.

Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.

Le gouvernement français vient de publier un rapport sur les cessions de terres agricoles, dans les pays du Sud, aux investisseurs étrangers

Evidence suggests a marked disparity in the benefits received by those involved in and affected by these transnational land acquisitions, particularly for those originally dwelling on the land.

New Zealand's state-owned farm company Landcorp dismisses as conspiracy theory the notion that its bid for the Crafar farms is political interference

The government of Brazil is studying the possibility of prohibiting the purchase of land by foreigners. A discussion with the journalist who broke the news, Mauro Zanatto.

Outline of major Ukraine companies open to farmland investors

ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment

SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.

An economic analysis of land grabbing in 25 countries by a French securities firm. Predicts the entry of Danone, Nestlé and Unilever into the fray.

Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.

Singapore could gain access to a major new source of meat, fruit and vegetables if a massive new farming project in north-eastern China takes off

A German investment fund that bought a majority interest in a Southland dairy farm, Aquila Capital's AgrarInvest, also has shareholdings in three other Kiwi dairy companies.

Le Fonds pour l’agriculture en Afrique sera financé par la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) et l’Agence française de développement (AFD) à hauteur de 40 millions de dollars chacun.

De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers

Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.

Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.

The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Le Conseil des ministres a adopté hier le projet de loi fixant les conditions et modalités d’exploitation de terres agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat. L’ouverture au partenariat étranger est exclue.

South Korea's Hyundai Corporation is trying to purchase 10,000 ha of farmland in Brazil to grow soybeans for the Korean market

Environmentalists are up in arms over the latest design for the Merau­ke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, which they say will see more than 1.1 million hectares of forests converted into agricultural estates.

Cargill and Bunge among firms setting up funds to buy farms in Asia and South America.

Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.

Unfortunately, the US Senate inquiry into Goldman Sach's alleged malfeasance is unlikely to question why the company in 2008 decided to acquire ten intensive poultry farms in China's Hunan and Fujian provinces for $300 million.

MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands