An overview of land grabbing in Africa and Asia as lessons for Sri Lanka. In September 2016 the International Criminal Court called land grabs as a crime against humanity and this is an area that Sri Lanka’s lawyers are advised to further look into.

The Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold three properties in Lachlan Valley in New South Wales to two overseas investors – MERS Global Investments and Optifarm

China's richest man, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, slipped into New Zealand incognito last month. The founder of the world's largest retailer, which specialises in e-commerce, was in Waikato during Chinese New Year to check out his latest investment.

Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land  to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.

China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad and already directed interest to the French wheat. In France, the authorities learned lately about the acquisition of 1,700 hectares of cereal crops in central France thanks to clever attorney’s tricks.

To censure activism and opponents, Indian corporates have been using legal protection against journalists and campaigners but the debate on this issue has not taken off, possibly because of fear.

The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) is very pleased that the Government announced that, as of December 2017, the rules around foreigners buying NZ farmland have been tightened up.

TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria.

Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks

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 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.

The $150 million Rural Funds Group has increased its exposure to almonds after striking a deal to develop 1500 hectares in two new almond orchards in the NSW Riverina backed by a long-term lease to Singapore giant Olam.

Pengxin's attempt to transfer New Zealand assets to Chinese agricultural company Hunan Dakang in the middle of seeking approval to buy 14,000 ha sheep and beef farm seen as "bizarre".

The global population is rising steadily — but food production is not. The result? More demand for arable land, as nations invest to safeguard their food supply and their wealth

GRAIN’s report accuses the Siva Group of land grab in many countries across South America, Africa and Asia

Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest trading house, proposed to buy the Norwegian fishery Cermaq ASA for $1.4 billion to expand its foods business and become the world’s second-largest salmon farmer.

Swedish pension fund AP Fonden 2 has invested $750 million to TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture II, confirming rumours that the pension was one of three foreign investors contributing to the vehicle’s $1.4 billion fundraise.

The desert states of the Gulf are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security.

As the world’s population swells beyond seven billion and emerging markets’ appetite for food grows, Canadian institutions are getting increasingly hungry for agribusiness and farmland acquisitions abroad.

NBPOL, a medium-sized Papua New Guinnea-based company, has eyed barangay Sta. Teresa as the pilot test area and demonstration farm for palm oil.

China is headed to spend a record this year on food assets and farms after a $32.7 billion splurge in the past five years and just $4.2 billion in the prior half-decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Reading between the lines, the Durban BRICS resolutions will support favoured corporations' extraction and land-grab strategies and confirm the financing of both African land-grabbing and the extension of neo-colonial infrastructure through a new 'BRICS Bank'

An Australian farmer has voiced concerns about a Chinese company's $29 million purchase of 23,000 ha of prime, grain-growing land in Western Australia's south.

Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."

Hundreds of civil society organisations including farmers' movements, women's groups and non-governmental organisations, will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 and 23.

Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming across the US grain belt -- and National Australia Bank is right in the middle.

Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.

"All of a sudden the world is waking up and saying, 'Wow, emerging markets, food security... this asset class is going to really perform in the medium term -- the next 8-20 years,'" says new convert James Howard, manager of the Futuregrowth Agri-Fund

Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?