According to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as at 31 December 2010, 89% of the nation's agricultural land was Australian owned.

Indian companies are looking at agricultural outsourcing by opting for cheaper options in neighbouring countries so as to produce things at less cost, making this sector lucrative to the PE firms

Tanzania's Coast Region residents have been advised to accept and work with investors in agriculture.

Feronia Inc. got into the palm oil business in September 2009 through the purchase of a 100,000 hectare plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo from Unilever.

Speaking at the annual African Cup of Investment Management, Alex Pestana said China had invested in arable land in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.

AN extraordinary new process has been at work in the past few years: the aggressive entry of Indian corporations into the markets for agricultural land in Africa, writes Jayati Gosh

As large-scale land purchases for food production become commonplace, the FAO is finalising a set of guidelines to help improve land-tenure governance and encourage transparency in deals.

"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."

The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.

A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.

AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.

Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament