Almost a decade since government of Cambodia granted 40,000 hectares land concession to five Chinese companies believed to be subsidiaries of a single Chinese owned firm, Hengfu. The whole project that affected indigenous Kuoy community has now fallen apart.

Ukrainians are concerned that cash-flush foreigners could snap up one of Ukraine’s agricultural lands, leaving many of the country’s 41 million people forced to work for others on the soil they once owned.

Hainan Qinfu Foods Company Limited from China is looking for 5,000 acres of land to invest a total of $450m in a specialized aquaculture industrial park.

Matteo Patrone, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, warns against mistakes in reform and believes that a pause should be taken

COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres [24 million ha] of soybean production in Brazil.

Agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was the second deadliest sector for people standing up for the environment and their lands.

Communities also file second complaint against the World Bank for new financial ties to HAGL

Norway’s US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has pulled out of more than 33 palm oil companies over deforestation risks over the last seven years

Proponents of land rights in Sierra Leone note with grave concern the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and users Association who were dispossessed of their land by the agro–based multinational SOCFIN.

The new office of the Turkish and Sudanese joint agricultural and livestock company will commence works on a 12,500 ha pilot farm, as part of an agreement in which 780,000 ha in Sudan have been earmarked for Turkish companies.

Villages across Tanzania are using legal expertise, political pressure and smart solutions like land mapping to win back plots — and then secure them — from corporations they accuse of using loopholes to grab territory.

The decision marks the first time in Sierra Leone's history that a community has been able to win back land leased to a foreign company

Algeria plans to offer foreign investors concessions for farm land for the first time, according to an official document, as the oil producer seeks to boost food output and reduce reliance on imports.

Groups once again publicly denounce the alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities in the Cerrado in Piauí, part of the region where the federal government is implementing its Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan

Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture has called for a review of the flawed 50 year land lease agreement signed in 2011 between land owners and Socfin Agriculture Company

A coalition of environmental, human rights and family farm organizations delivered a letter with over 100,000 signatures to pension fund management company TIAA, expressing concerns over the company’s investments in farmland and palm oil.

In India, of the almost 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of land acquired for SEZs in the last five years, only 362 hectares have been used for their intended purpose, according to SEZ Farmers' Protection Welfare Association despite farmers have been devastated by the loss of their land.

KLK announce withdraws from customary land in Collingwood Bay, but has not clarified overall plans for its total land bank of 44,342 ha in the region or its 37,000 ha plantation deal in Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Offshore companies control 1.1 million hectares of rural land in Argentina. The government recently amended the Land Law by decree in order to promote further foreign investments in farmland.

The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.

The suitors led by Shanghai Pengxin Group will instead work on a new structure for the takeover of S. Kidman & Co., while sticking with the same price tag for the 117-year-old cattle company.

New land law makes it almost impossible for foreigners to buy Polish farms. But it’s difficult for Poles, too.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

Northern NSW premium meat exporter Bindaree Beef set up a 10,000 square metre cutting-edge facility in QingDao, North Eastern China, aimed at value-adding Australian beef, is due to be finished by the end of 2016.

Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

Donlinks, one of China's biggest vegetable oil producers, will partner with British Virgin lslands-registered Genius Link Capital, to make an offer for S. Kidman & Co, Australia's largest landholder.

The Chinese delegation was interested in setting up businesses in Tonga that could process cassava into starch as well cultivating mushrooms for export.

New Hope Group announced last year it would invest $500m into Australian agribusiness, and its chairman Liu Yonghao revealed majority of the fund would support New Hope Dairy’s projects in Australia.

Hong Kong-listed Fosun International, a conglomerate with investments in businesses ranging from holiday resort chain Club Med to upmarket circus show Cirque de Soleil, is to buy 9% of German farm-operator KTG Agrar.

Recent comments that Aru archipelago in Indonesia's eastern waters will be one of three sites for a major new sugarcane initiative has sparked an outcry among civil society groups.