Western Australia signs agreement with Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment on Ord Irrigation Scheme

BNDES will open its first Africa office as it looks to finance the expansion of Brazilian companies across the continent

CDC will directly hold 27.5% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Feronia, a large-scale commercial farmland operator in the DRC

L'Europe a finalement donné un coup de frein aux agrocarburants en limitant les agrocarburants dits de "première génération", produits à base de cultures alimentaires (blé, maïs, colza, canne ou palme) à 6 % de l'énergie finale consommée dans les transports

At least 200,000 people blocked roads and launched protests across Colombia against free trade agreements, land grabs and other policies of poverty and privatization pushed by US-backed right-wing President Juan Manuel Santos.

Selon un nouveau rapport de la Banque mondiale, les pays africains pourraient mettre fin aux « accaparements des terres » s’ils parviennent à moderniser le droit foncier et la gestion des terres

Sifca Group, which owns Africa’s biggest palm-oil refinery located in Ivory Coast, said it plans to spend $417 million in the next five years on plantations and factories in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia.

Miami-based company's investment deal includes the acquisition of farmland and establishment of private farms. Similar deal signed the previous week with Ghana.

Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to an African land grab.

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Hassad Food Co, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has bought a majority stake in an Indian basmati rice company for more than $100m, it was reported on Wednesday.

"It seems incongruous that Herakles Farms claims it is trying to improve the lives of local people but then there is scarcely any consultation with those same people over what is to be done with the land they depend on for their livelihoods, nor any serious acknowledgment of the risks posed to local environments and the global climate," writes Kumi Naidoo

Palm oil is the world’s cheapest edible oil and a key ingredient in some biofuels. Global demand is booming and agri-corporations are grabbing large swathes of land to expand palm oil production in a new frontier: Africa.

The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make land available for foreign investment in agriculture, advocacy groups say.

With the purchase of nearly 15,000ha of land in Jerramungup last month, the Qatar-based Hassad Food Company now owns 250,000ha of farmland in Austalia

Companies investing in land in Africa and elsewhere need guidelines to ensure the human rights and dignity of local communities are protected

The report outlines elements of a Global New Deal including developing principles for responsible agricultural investment.

Ethiopia has forced at least 70,000 people off their land so it can lease fertile fields to foreign investors, a move that has left some locals starving in barren, remote villages.

A fierce debate is currently taking place concerning huge tracts of Tanzanian land which U.S. investors are seeking to develop. Tens of thousands of former refugees now farm the land.

Two of the last big Australian-owned sugar mills, Maryborough and Proserpine, could soon be sold to foreign buyers in takeover deals worth more than $350 million.

The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi

"We are in negotiations with several foreign investment funds that are interested in buying thousands of hectares of Romanian farmland,” says analyst with DTZ Echinox.

The most disturbing question here is: who should have powers to give 800,000 hectares to a foreigner under a 99-year lease arrangement, and under what procedures?

Pension funds may be one of the few classes of land grabbers that people can pull the plug on, by sheer virtue of the fact that it is their money.

Thomas Mirow, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, advises the Ukraine, on behalf of foreign investors, to drop its moratorium on the sale of farmland to foreigners.

If the early reports are anything to go by, the Bangladeshi deals already incorporate many elements that suggest they are being done in a way likely to engender fierce resentment and opposition in the African countries concerned.

The government of Bangladesh has also been looking for farmland abroad -- in Burma, Kenya, Uganda

FAO side-event in the margins of the 4th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11 May 2011

On assiste depuis quelques années à une véritable envolée des investissements agricoles dans le monde en développement.

LPC-U exprime sa vive indignation suite à la signature par le Gouvernement congolais et des fermiers Sud-africains d'un accord portant sur la cession par le Congo de 80 000ha de terres arables.