Agriculture Department denies a recent WA trade delegation visit to several Middle Eastern countries was to promote selling WA agricultural land for grain and livestock.

Tajikistan leased around 18,000 hectares of its land to China for cotton, rice, grain, and corn cultivation for a 49-year contract. The agreement was part of a broader initiative to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.

MHP, a Ukrainian agribusiness company with massive poultry and grain farms, says the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) has acquired a 12.6% stake in the company.

An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million

Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO said it has agreed to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat from Saudi Arabian-owned farms in Australia, Canada and Ukraine for delivery from May to December 2021.

Serbia has neither clear rules of the game nor a development strategy for the agricultural sector, which is why the government confuses itself with Gulf State investors in secret meetings and makes real deals under the grain.

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.

The Philippines and PNG signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement for greater cooperation on agriculture, including a tie-up on rice and grain production, as well as coconut and coffee production.

The elite university has quietly become one of the largest owners of farmland in the world, according to a new report by GRAIN, an international nonprofit supporting small farmers, and Brazil-based Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos

A recent report by nine charities including RIAO-RDC, a Congolese NGO, and the western charities Grain and War on Want, levels a string of criticisms against Feronia Inc, including allegations of land grabs, low pay and exploitation.

400 landless families occupied the Sol Agricola Farm, owned by Chongqing Grain Group and located in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state.

The ruling Frelimo party has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice.

Un résumé des derniers événements au 13 février 2014 publié par Tax Justice Network, Forum Syd Kenya, GRAIN, Anywaa Survival Organisation et le South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements

Cargill has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a potentially far-reaching deal that sources said would see both groups partner up in future grain exports to China and other growing markets.

The executive director of the Saudi company Iktifaa announced that his company will establish agricultural and animal projects in Sudan’s state of Sennar and the Northern state to produce grain and cattle feed.

An American grain consultant says there's a lot of interest from the United States farming sector in investing in West Australian agriculture.

The European Parliament has voted to limit the use of fuels made from food crops because of fears that biofuels can push up grain prices and displace communities, but critics say it avoids meaningful action to reduce European demand.

With a need to import 100m tonnes of grain each year by 2020, Beijing needs to invest in global agricultural markets, experts say

An Australian farmer has voiced concerns about a Chinese company's $29 million purchase of 23,000 ha of prime, grain-growing land in Western Australia's south.

Jeanne Zoundjihékpon, responsable de l'ONG "GRAIN" pour l'Afrique, nous explique la problématique pour les agriculteurs et les citoyens africains.

The Obama model's first project in Mozambique will be to support Cargill, the giant grain trader and largest private company in the world, to take 40,000 hectares of farmland.

Entretiens réalisés lors du Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau en mars 2012 à Marseille avec Charlotte Zama et Chantal Jacovetti venues du Mali et avec Renée Vellve de l'association GRAIN.

Saudi Arabia is reducing grain production to reduce unsustainable use of groundwater and encouraging companies to lease tracts of land in Africa for growing, a new UN report on water says.

North Korea plans to rent several hundred thousand hectares of land in the Amur region in Russia's Far East to grow vegetables and grain

Agroton, one of Ukraine's largest agricultural companies, plans to use the IPO money to boost its land bank. Ukraine, a major global exporter of grain, plans to introduce private land ownership this year.

Segundo as ONGs "Grain" e La Via Campesina, "alguns governos, como o da Arábia Saudita e Coreia do Sul pressionam essa forma de agir, como estratégia comercial.

Mitsui & Co., Japan's second-largest trading company, may increase investment in farming overseas to secure food supplies as competition from China, the biggest grain consumer, intensifies. The company is seeking new targets after taking a 39.35 percent stake in Multigrain AG, which produces soybeans in Brazil, the world's second-largest grower.

Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA has bought 100,000 hectares of farmland and related operations in Brazil to secure a stable supply of soybeans and other farm produce, Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd, a part owner of holding company Multigrain AG, said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe's President says he brought his Minister of Agriculture to Riyadh to follow-up on discussions held recently in Harare about signing an MOU for the production of grain for export to Saudi Arabia.

China will launch the Plan for China Supporting Africa's Agricultural Modernization to help Africa expand grain plantation and encourage Chinese companies to increase agricultural investment in Africa.