Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.

Between 2000-2011, 68% of all investigated foreign capital to 9 top companies in soy and beef sectors in the Brazilian Amazon was transferred through tax havens. Soy and beef production cause major Amazon deforestation.

On 18 November 2008, The Financial Times exposed a massive deal being negotiated between Daewoo Logistics and the government of Madagascar. Ten years later, what are we seeing?

Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.

Des associations de la communauté anuak exhortent les gouvernements éthiopien et indien à arrêter leurs négociations avec Karuturi Global Ltd et à faire en sorte que l’entreprise quitte définitivement Gambela et les autres régions d’Éthiopie.

From Cambodia to the Philippines, women land rights defenders face increasing levels of violence and intimidation

The industry expected to find green pastures in Liberia, but early missteps and new environmental restrictions have led to slow expansion.

Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.

Concerning JICA’s attempt to suppress Mozambican peasant leaders and CSO representative visiting Japan

Ocho años después de la publicación del primer informe sobre acaparamiento de tierras, GRAIN publica un nuevo conjunto de datos que documentan cerca de 500 casos de acaparamiento de tierras.

Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.

The commodity slump has cooled the global land rush. But land rights are still under pressure, requiring action at local to global levels.

Protest in Kazakh city of Atyrau comes as public fears grow that changes in the Land Code could allow sales of land to foreigners, though the government has said this will not happen.

Chinese fertilizer producer Hubei Xinyangfeng has secured its first allotment of farmland outside of China, after it purchased a farm in southern New South Wales, Australia.

The Treasurer said the size and location of the properties means selling them to a foreign buyer would be "contrary to the national interest", and the deal cannot go ahead.

While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.

Japanese NGOs’ fact-finding on ProSAVANA, an agricultural development program implemented in Mozambique by Japanese Official Development Assistance.

Karuturi Global Ltd, la multinacional india que hizo su fama en el mercado global de la industria de flores cortadas y que recientemente adquirió más de 300 mil hectáreas en Etiopía para producir alimentos para los mercados extranjeros, continúa su dolorosa e impresionante caída.

While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.

Oxfam investigation finds large scale agriculture deals funded by US companies in Paraguay, Guatemala, and Colombia are undermining food security and displacing smallholder farmers.

Since 2007, a plantation company had been scheming to take over more than three-quarters of the Indigenous islanders’ ancestral land in the Aru islands of Indonesia.

The long fight between the people of Joghban and other surrounding clans and the Equatorial Palm Oil Company seems to be over.

“Farmland has now become the latest scarce ‘hot’ commodity for all sorts of speculators who have absolutely no interest in agriculture,” says John Peck of Wisconsin-based Family Farm Defenders.

Une banque japonaise serait actuellement en discussions en vue d’investir dans des terres agricoles dans l’Extrême-Orient russe.

One of the central figures of the Brazilian ‘sem-terra’ (without land) movement, Augusto Juncal, was in Maputo as a ‘heavyweight reinforcement’ for the campaign by Mozambican small-scale farmers against ProSavana.

Because of difficulty in securing commercial-scale agricultural lands in the Philippines, hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. said that it may shift its planned joint venture with the Manny Pangilinan-led First Pacific Co. Ltd. to Indonesia.

Operations at Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, have been paralyzed due to a financial crisis.

Plusieurs organisations accusent les magnats européens Vincent Bolloré et Hubert Fabri de recourir à l'intimidation pour museler l'opposition locale à l'accaparement des terres africaines.

The World Bank formally reiterates its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.

A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's Public Investment Fund sovereign wealth fund – buys Continental Farmers Group, which has large farming operations in Poland and the Ukraine.