Tensions against Indian companies acquiring farmland in Ethiopia are mounting, according to Tehelka

Fonterra today signed an agreement with the Government of Yutian County in China which formalises the final stage of due diligence on two potential Fonterra dairy farm sites.

DuPont, which is taking control of Africa's largest seed company, says land investments alone would not be enough to enhance food exports from Africa.

The International Financial Corporation has actually increased the ability of foreign investors to acquire land in developing country markets by promoting profitable deals, creating “investment promotion agencies” and rewriting national laws., says Anuradha Mittal

GRAIN says the World Bank's much anticipated report on the global farmland grab is both a disappointment and a failure.

There is too much at stake when governments give up land, water, and livestock to large-scale foreign investment. NGOs and funders have to listen and respond to the needs and accomplishments on the ground, and keep local food systems truly local.

“The EU is effectively subsidizing land grabbing in Cambodia by giving preferential treatment to companies that have produced goods on stolen land,” says David Pred, BABC executive director

The eDiscussion will take place from 13 September to 8 October and is open to all.

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said his ministry received a proposal to make use of 500,000 hectare areas for the 1.6-million-hectare food and energy estate projects planned in Merauke, Papua.

As foreign investors in Russia are all too aware, there is a perennial conflict within the country’s political elite on how to balance the need for foreign investment and outside technology with an impulse to maximize state control over sectors that carry outsized economic or social significance.

"I have asked the USDA if Chinese investors could buy farmland in the US and I got positive answers. In this way, Chinese grain price could escape the control of international grain enterprises," says Zheng Fengtian.

Foreign investors are increasingly focusing on opportunities in Turkish agriculture, according to Mehmet Erdo?an, chairman of Sezon Pirinç, a rice company