Around 15% of Cambodian land has been signed over to private companies, a third of them foreign, using leases under which they promise to develop the plots and provide jobs.

Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?

Holdings in productive assets such as farmland can be managed to a high degree of ESG performance, but require a commensurately high degree of investor expertise, says this report sponsored by the Swiss government

Mitsui plans to buy 44.2% of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA, who owns in excess of 100,000 ha of farmland, equal to 2% of the total cultivated land of Japan

Accelerating the shift towards large-scale, highly mechanized forms of agriculture will not solve the problem of hunger: it will make it worse.

Nehawu, the powerful union representing education and health workers, wants President Jacob Zuma to ban or at least limit foreign land ownership in South Africa.

Parliament will consider in March a draft law that would open up the possibility of agricultural land sales

Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.

Thousands of white South African farmers are leaving their homeland to work abroad due to post-apartheid land reforms, a shortage of affordable territory and severe water shortages.

Publication from Church of Sweden, Swedish Cooperative Center and Forum Syd aims to contribute to a renewed discussion about how the world’s food supply, trade in food and different agricultural strategies are linked to world hunger.

The government also invites foreign investors to develop animal husbandry, aimed at securing livestock supplies.

Catherine Flax, JP Morgan's CEO for Commodities, says that investors and even countries are looking at assets such as agricultural land.