International funds want to invest in New Zealand farming as part of the global trend to secure food production for emerging Asian economies

KPMG says food and farming is one of the "hot sectors" for Chinese overseas investment in 2015.

The rush of foreign investment into Pakistan’s agricultural sector being facilitated through Corporate Farming Ordinance will increase landlessness, food insecurity, water scarcity and agroecological degradation.

Dutch Pension fund PGGM has committed between €50m and €100m to a Cargill owned private equity fund that invests in farmland and crop production.

Jokplenu, an old community in the Volta Region of Ghana, owns lands on which Brazil Agro Business Group has taken over for a large scale rice farm.

A year after prohibiting foreigners from purchasing lands, Georgian officials have now announced that rights to own agricultural lands might return to foreigners under certain conditions.

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe says there will also be compulsory declaration of land holdings by the propertied class

Changes and sudden loss of lands for indigenous people have far-reaching implications besides livelihood, income, and food. Despite pressure on indigenous communities, people are finding ways to defend their rights.

Americans were the biggest buyers of New Zealand land in the past five years, although buyers from China topped the list in 2014.

Saskatchewan’s Farm Land Security Board has issued its second decision on a case that could transform the way land is bought and sold in the province.


Receiver managers of embattled flower farm Karuturi are disputing claims the farm and its assets have been put up for sale.

Debate over large scale land investments in Africa is shifting from the disastrous impact of land grabs to the need for African governments to deal with citizens’ outrage by developing a ‘land policy’.