Oxfam looks at the current level and types of agribusiness investment in Myanmar, outlines some of the risks to communities, and explores state regulation of outbound investments as a potential way to promote responsible business practices in the sector.
Strong distrust remains among the indigenous Papuans of Indonesia's Merauke regency about a major "food estate" project.
There are 196 Saudis investing in the agricultural sector in Sudan and they basically focus on wheat, corn and feed.
- Asharq Al-Awsat
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24 January 2017
Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.
- Daily News
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16 January 2017
The Tanzanian government has held a series of stakeholders meetings to enable different interest groups to present their views on the draft National Land Policy, 2016.
- The Citizen
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30 November 2016
Namibia's lands minister Utoni Nujoma has reportedly tabled a bill that would see foreign nationals being barred from owning land in the southern African country.
Bain & Company analysis has identiied four approaches that public companies are taking to invest in agriculture.
- Bain & Co
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01 November 2016
The Senate agriculture committee is launching a study into the ownership of Canadian farmland and the challenges that farmers face in expanding their operations.
- Manitoba Cooperator
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26 October 2016
Despite claims that a massive agricultural development deal in Mozambique will benefit the country’s citizens, there are indications that the project is designed to benefit a select few and could leave 100,000 Mozambicans displaced, write Khadija Sharife, Luis Nhachote
- #PanamaPapers
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27 July 2016
Some 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) of farmland have been confiscated nationwide during past decades
- The Irrawaddy
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06 July 2016
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.
While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners.
- The Diplomat
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15 June 2016
Real estate agent says with commodity prices down, institutional investors who had been investing in farmland in the Midwest are turning their attention to places like Florida, and sees upswing in investment from Latin America.
- Growing Produce
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20 May 2016
Agriculture cooperation with foreign countries is developing fast in China. 551 investment institutions in China have carried out agricultural investment cooperation in more than 80 countries and regions; and have established 1157 enterprises.
- China Economy Net
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21 Mar 2016
Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Tuesday told Parliament that Bangladesh had started ‘contract farming’ in the African countries with appointment of 11 Bangladeshi farmers in Zambia.
- Financial Express
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02 February 2016
Access to traditional land remains fundamental to the well-being of indigenous groups. But in the last decade, national governments have sold over 81 million acres of land—much of it indigenous—to foreign investors without the permission of those inhabiting the land.
Despite important legal victories, Anuak of Gambella continue to face land evictions and repression to clear their lands for foreign and domestic investors.
Land grabbing is a direct acquisition of land shaped by failures of democracy, and economic governance.
- Standard Times
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09 December 2015
Deal with Greens guarantees passage of legislation to lower screening thresholds for foreign investments in farmland and agricultural businesses in Australia
- Guardian
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23 November 2015
The level of Chinese investment in the Australian beef supply chain appears certain to increase as China hunts for new food sources to feed its one and half billion citizens. Nine Chinese companies have outlaid almost $430 million on Australian beef cattle holdings and downstream red meat supply chain.
- Beef Central
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28 October 2015
Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.
Chinese company's takeover of Australian farmland and firms draws mixed reaction from Australia ministers.
Egyptian officials say they are pursuing food security farming projects in the DR Congo and Sudan, where they have recently been allocated 1 million acres.
- AL-Monitor
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03 August 2015
The UN's Economic Commission, Germany's BMZ and the World Bank signed a Declaration of Intent to establish a new Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa to better secure land rights across Africa.
The fact that China does not now depend on Africa in any meaningful way for food does not mean this will continue to be the case.
If Africa remains a food deficit region, exporting significant quantities of food to China grown on Chinese-financed investment projects will raise serious questions.
- International Policy Digest
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09 July 2015
Economic land concessions (ELC) in Cambodia have a profound and negative impact upon rural households located near the plantations. Despite moratoriums on land grabbing, companies operating ELCs continue dominate and run much of Cambodia’s arable land.
- Phnom Penh Post
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05 July 2015
A mysterious new partnership between Indonesia's spy agency and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) to boost foreign investment has civil society wary of deepening agrarian conflict in the post-authoritarian country.
Following the many paths of where investment dollars go to fund agricultural commodities in SE Asia can be a challenging but not impossible prospect.
"There will be concerns about agriculture investment unless land ownership is opened to foreign investors,' says the OECD's Jan Rielander.