The Indonesian Government is planning to crack down on further expansion of groups in the powerful palm oil plantation industry and, indirectly, foreign conglomerates.

We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.

Groups say proponents of large-scale agribusiness project are using manipulative and intimidating actions to divide, compartmentalise and weaken Mozambican civil society.

We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.

Statement published by Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps' website detailing the MOU it signed for agricultural projects in the Ukraine (with an excerpt translated to English).

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.

After enabling foreign firms to grab vast stretches of land, the government has begun to review its land policy.

Cargill bought a large area of farming land in Colombia many times bigger than the legal limit by setting up dozens of "shell companies", violating the spirit of agrarian reform laws, Oxfam said in a report released.

Workers of the troubled Karuturi farms in Kenya went on strike to demand their two months salaries. The incident came two days after four workers tried to commit suicide outside the farm's gates in protest.

President Jakaya Kikwete refutes claims that his government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas in an address at Guelph University, Canada.

As the world’s population swells beyond seven billion and emerging markets’ appetite for food grows, Canadian institutions are getting increasingly hungry for agribusiness and farmland acquisitions abroad.

The Indonesian government may be in the market for an even larger slice of Australian land than the 1.5 million hectares it has proposed.