Mawashi, Qatar’s livestock company, plans to invest in industrial agriculture and food sources outside Qatar to serve the vision and objectives of the Qatar National Food Security Programme, it was announced yesterday.

"During my research trips in Africa, I came across posters against the land grab deals," Liberti told IPS. "One said: ‘Future generations will damn your graves, because you did not leave them any land.’"

Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has described as "bullshit" his party's proposed policy for more scrutiny of overseas companies buying into Australian agriculture because it ignored the real threat posed by foreign government-owned funds buying up farmland.

Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.

The Pan African Parliament (PAP) held a meeting of parliamentarians from across the continent last week to discuss an appropriate African response to resource grabs

Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".

Given the limited scope for farmland expansion within India, policy makers need to evaluate the option of cross border farmland cultivation, says the director of YES Bank

Quietly, these modern-day land marauders are coming to Canada—undermining family farms, compromising local food sovereignty, and harming the environment.

A four-part piece about the increasing prevalence of large-scale land acquisition or "land grabs" in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Worldwatch Intitute.

"They are selling off African land for a song," said Ndiogou Fall, president of the executive committee for the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA), which is calling for dialogue between governments, producers and African and foreign investors.

As for the Chinese delegation and those of them who had the chance to state their minds one did not get the impression at all as regards purchase of land

FAO believes that the time has come to give deep thought to creating the conditions to ensure the success of international ‘joint-ventures’ for food production

“Now we are facing the food crisis. Madagascar can have a lot to offer on this: we have land, we are using less than 10% of arable land in Madagascar. The big foreign investors can come in, work together with us. They will get good return on investment and we will get food for the population."

Agrowill Group AB, the largest agricultural investment company in the Baltic States, intends to sell all land owned by the Group in Lithuania to the Land Fund that will be established.

With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits

The final consideration will be based on Sinarmas Natural Resources' initial enterprise value of US$111 million, its working capital and financial statements at completion.

The World Bank's IFC is committing up to US$30 million to Hosen Investment Fund III, the latest vehicle from Hosen Capital, a Chinese private equity fund with a strong focus on agriculture and food industry.

UBS Global Asset Management has established an Australia and New Zealand farmland investment advisory service to meet the growing institutional demand for assets, particularly from Asia.

Sir Bob Geldof has warned UK pension funds they are missing out on the “last great investment opportunity left” by not placing money in Africa -- including its arable lands.

Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian ­agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.

"Huge tracts of unutilised agricultural land are available" writes the Ambassador of Ethiopia to the UK

The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.

Adecoagro, which farms 210,400 hectares in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay for sugar, dairy and ethanol production, has entered into a transaction agreement with Tether Investments, part of the Tether Group, which runs the world’s largest stablecoin.

Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”

Japanese paper maker buys a 41,000 tree plantation in Uruguay for US$288mn from US asset manager The Rohatyn Group, as part of a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.

The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.

Tanmiah operates 93 farms as well as 6 hatcheries, 2 feed mills, 4 slaughterhouses, 3 food processing plants, and 13 dry and cold storage facilities located in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.

In the yesteryears, international investors trooped to the Kenyan lakeside town in search of land to grow flowers but it is no longer the case.

Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that contributes to land-grabbing, deforestation and human rights violations