The government will allow foreign companies and individuals to invest in rice cultivation in Laos, Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh announced on Friday

According to IIED, for more inclusive land agreements to work, companies need to embrace them as a genuine economic component of their business, and not just as part of a corporate responsibility programme.

Western Gulf Advisory, a Bahrain-Zurich based company, plans to invest $1 billion into the Australian economy, including farm acquisitions, over the next few years.

A study by a Federal Public Ministry working group on the purchase of land in the country demolishes the idea that Brazilian companies controlled by foreign capital should receive the same treatment in these purchases as companies by national capital.

Singapore's Wilmar, the world's largest listed palm oil firm, wants to invest $2 billion in Indonesia where they are targeting Merauke to develop sugar cane plantations

A rush of foreign investment interest in Australian farmland is stirring new concerns about just how much overseas ownership of local agricultural resources is too much.

Sir Bob Geldof has warned UK pension funds they are missing out on the “last great investment opportunity left” by not placing money in Africa -- including its arable lands.

Responsible investment in agriculture is preferably not about large scale foreign land acquisitions. It is about promoting sustainable agriculture, reducing poverty and meeting the world’s food needs, says IFAD's Harold Liversage

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) said that so far trade and investment deals with partners in the south are merely reinforcing a long-standing trend with the north in which African countries export farm produce, minerals, ores, and crude oil, and import manufactured goods.

Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture says the Embassy in Riyadh will organize a meeting and formulate regulations on the investment, as a follow-up of his visit to Saudi Arabia

There are always concerns surrounding foreign ownership, but they're about the wider issue of land ownership and not specifically about China, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said after talks with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jingping

Instead of providing land to big corporations, the Indonesian government has a better choice: to redistribute land to the millions of landless and peasant families so they can work again to feed their family.