A unit of China's state-owned Bright Food Group Co Ltd will take a half share in New Zealand's biggest meat co-operative for $197 million, as China looks to import more of the country's agricultural products.

“We have received proposals for huge pieces of land in two countries. We would like to see these formalised and signed, after which we can announce the investment opportunities," says Minister of Agriculture.

Investors have turned to farmland as part of a sweeping push into physical assets — everything from lumber, hotels and apartments to parking meters, bridges and highways.

The Edo State government has articulated a policy that allows investors to own government lands irrespective of the size for about 200 thousand naira.

Some prominent Nigerians, including wealthy foreign investors, are purchasing huge tracts of land for farming with projects worth millions of naira

CITIC is negotiating with the Angolan government to open another 30,000-hectare farm in the central Bie province to plant rice with financial support of Chinese banks.

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior has arranged a loan for companies of Ecuadorian agribusiness conglomerate with diversified business activities in banana plantations, dairy, and fertilisers.

This guide is for organisations and individuals working to support communities whose land rights, lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by agricultural investments.

In the past four years, farmland agent Minor Taylor has sold more than 50,000 acres of Texas farmland to Chinese buyers.

Poligrow did not respond saying that they cannot issue a public statement pending resolution of a lawsuit against the authors of the allegations.

Mr Museveni particularly cited those still frustrating oil palm growing on Kalangala Islands, saying they don’t deserve to live because they don’t want Uganda to become self-sustaining

Troubled plantations company Karuturi Limited’s owners have asked the High Court to jail the flower firm’s receiver managers for denying them access to its financial records in disregard of a court order issued in July.