As soon as the rice is harvested, the corn is seeded; three months later it’s watermelons then bananas, cash crops grown year round on farms in Laos rented by Chinese investors to feed China’s insatiable appetite for fresh produce.

Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.

The rice farm of KPL, a subsidiary of Guernsey-based Agrica Limited, was once touted as the best large scale commercial farming partnership with smallholder farmers until it defaulted in 2019.

In Liberia, a unit of the world’s second-largest palm oil company has admitted to destroying forests and violating the rights of indigenous people. Yet its parent is among the industry’s leaders in investor ratings for ESG policies.

In Ireland, vulture funds and lenders are following a more aggressive strategy since the end of Covid-19 moratorium on forced sales

An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia across palm oil plantation in Malaysia and Indonesia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.

Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to parcel out vast tracts of prime horticultural land to the Belarusian government in a deal that will see the eastern European nation farming and exporting produce.

Villagers believe that local authorities have illegally conspired to sell a large part of the forest to Hamenivent

A Canadian pension fund has bought a huge parcel of Australian permanent water rights for $490M to irrigate almond trees, in a move that puts the spotlight on foreign ownership of farms and water resources as drought ravages the country.

The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers from exposure to dangerous pesticides and paying “extreme poverty” wages on palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The sell-down of northern grazing assets continues for Terra Firma’s Consolidated Pastoral Co, with a deal announced today to sell its Ucharonidge station in the Northern Territory to Malcolm Harris’s Cleveland Agriculture.

Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo says that Zambia is partnering with foreign investors, especially the Chinese in the farming industry to improve national food production.

A Saudi delegation met with South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture and "expressed a desire to lease land in South Africa to produce a wide range of agricultural commodities provided they can sign a lease of 99 years or more.”

Harvard bet the farm in Brazil and lost. The university, which invested at least $150 million in a mega farm project in country's northeast, is now exiting, according to people familiar with the matter.

In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.

The amount of Australian farm land owned by Chinese interests has surged tenfold in the past year, climbing above 14 million hectares or 2.5 per cent of all agricultural land.

Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.

Now and into 2017 agribusiness is being promoted as the next big thing, with increasing market activity, resulting in land and asset values accelerating at a greater rate towards a peak as local and international demand increases.

The notorious reluctance of Australian superannuation funds to invest in agriculture because of perceptions it is too risky, volatile and low-return may be slowly changing, according to key farm and food industry players.

A worrying number of land grabs in developing countries involve European companies or are backed by European money – from banks, equity and pension funds, for instance.

Shanghai Zhongfu-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investments is the new owner of Carlton Hill and Ivanhoe, which operate as one station on the doorstep of Kununurra.

A growing number of governments have been criminalising the activities of land and human rights activists and putting restrictions on non-governmental groups.

This report describes the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It covers the period of July 2014 to June 2015 when Addax was still operational as well as the period of July 2015 to June 2016 when Addax scaled down its operations.

While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.

Golden Veroleum has denied using the Ebola crisis to take advantage of Liberian communities but local officials and en disagree.

Farmers from drought-parched California are finding greener pastures in the Pacific Northwest -- and so are buyers from China.

State-controlled Felda Global Ventures Bhd (FGV)said it needs more land bank and has been looking outside Malaysia for some time to boost its portfolio, including Africa, Myanmar and Indonesia.

What Obama administration officials need to realize is that the G8 New Alliance is fueling a rapidly growing trend where investors based in African cities are rapidly grabbing up land in rural communities by whatever means they can.

Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke lobbied Colin Barnett to allow a Chinese company to buy a large package of land in the Ord River.