Tanzania has adopted a new national land policy which, among others, lowers the ceiling under which foreign investors can lease land from the current 99 to 33 years.

Cooperation Memorandum signed between JSC National Export and Investments Agency KAZNEX INVEST of the Ministry for Investments and Development and the Asia-Pacific Food Fund (APOFCO)

Alors que le Gabon génère 85% de ses exportations grâce à l’huile de palme et en tire 50% de ses revenus, l’exécutif veut faire passer la part de l’agriculture dans le produit intérieur brut national de 5%, actuellement, à 20% à l’horizon 2020.

Entretien avec Guillaume Darrouy du Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs (France)

Kazakh National Economy Minister Yerbolat Dossayev resigned on May 5 after almost two weeks of protests against amendments to the Land Code that critics say would enable foreigners to buy more land.

Ministers approved the sale of a New Zealand farm to a Panamanian firm whose treasurer was also a director of a company that Portugal believed laundered money for former Brazilian and Portuguese national soccer coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Évoquant l’intérêt national du pays, le gouvernement australien est intervenu vendredi pour empêcher un consortium chinois d’acheter le plus vaste bien foncier privé du pays.

A group of 24 deputies, most of them from the National Liberal Party (PNL) have initiated a law draft that aims to impose stricter conditions for foreigners who want to buy farmland in Romania.

Over 20,000 hectares of land have been made available for national and foreign entrepreneurs interested in investing in the agricultural sector in Angola's Matala Municipality, where a Dutch company is pursuing a large-scale potato farming project.

In the future the national holding "KazAgro" plans to set up similar funds with China and the United Kingdom.

A caravan by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa will go across the region to get the voices of communities heard and engage national authorities to stop land grabbing

SOCFIN reprochée par le point de contact national de l'OCDE en Belgique de ne pas avoir respecté des principes directeurs de l'OCDE en matière de conditions de travail et d'environnement.

A broad alliance from World Bank to G8, from governments to multi-national corporations promotes large scale agriculture to improve food security, to create jobs and to bring development to rural communities.

Sudan’s National Investment Authority says it offered a Saudi delegation six agricultural projects in various states in north and east Sudan to carry out a food security plan.

Le Forum national pour la démocratie et l’unité dénonce des attributions foncières irrégulières et le bradage des terres à vocation agricole au niveau de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal

Australia's National Farmers’ Federation has criticised the Abbott government’s reduced threshold for foreign farm purchases.

Canada's National Farmers Union (NFU) has released an update to its 2010 report, "Losing Our Grip", about growing corporate control of farmland and the acceleration of debt among farmers.

Customary landowners in Papua New Guinea have been meeting to discuss their next steps following last month's National Court decision to halt the cancellation of flawed land leases.

The SABL became a national and an international issue when it was uncovered that 5.2 million ha of customary land in PNG were converted to agricultural business leases without the knowledge and consent of customary landowners.

The draft National Land Use Policy has created widespread discontent in Myanmar. It is only positive for those who may seek to acquire land for business purposes and have security in their investments.

Interview with Silas Siakor about how the determined people of the Jogbahn Clan, together with the pressure of national and international organisations, are trying to stop a UK palm oil company from grabbing their lands.

Over nine thousand farmers and pastoralist in St. Louis in the north of Senegal are facing possible evictions from their land as multi-national agro-industries scramble for agricultural land in the region.

Les FLAM rappellent que la juste solution au problème réside dans la mise en oeuvre d´une réforme agraire à caractère National

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp, known as COFCO, will focus its overseas acquisition drive in the wine and sugar sectors to meet growing demand at home, a senior company official has said.

Un artículo en Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences precisa que el 47% de los terrenos apropiados se localizan en África y el 33%, en Asia.

Farmers in Bombali and Tonkolili districts in northern Sierra Leone have said that land grabbing by multi-national companies and massive timber logging are some of the barriers to sustainable agriculture in the two districts.

Smithfield Foods won national security clearance on Friday for its proposed $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to a takeover.

Le coordinateur national de la CCVC a aussi dénoncé le pillage des ressources du sous sol par des sociétés minières étrangères, l'impunité des crimes et l'accaparement des terres des paysans.

Reportage diffusé par la radio ZIK-FM de Kaolack sur la campagne de lutte contre l'accaparement des terres agricoles conduite par le Conseil national de concertation et de coopération des ruraux (CNCR).

On Feb. 14, four days before Armenia's highly contested presidential election, Hasmik Evoyan and others protested the sheep deal in front of Armenia's National Assembly building in Yerevan.