Only a fool would believe Australia's agricultural development could be funded without foreign investment from sovereign wealth funds, according to Trade Minister Craig Emerson.

Ethiopia is working to reduce bureaucracy related to processes in agricultural investment according to Tefera Derebew, Minister of Agriculture.

At least one person is being killed in an environmental dispute around the world each week as the battle for land, natural resources and forests becomes increasingly violent, a report said on Tuesday.

Do governments and parliaments in investor home countries have any responsibility in respect of the behaviour of their investors abroad? What should they and international regulators do, if anything?

An ethics complaint being filed today alleges agribusiness investor Bruce Rastetter used his membership on a board that oversees Iowa’s public universities to advance a business venture involving Iowa State University.

"Pain pour le prochain" (PPP) a soulevé le problème de l’accaparement des terres, lors d’une conférence co-organisée au Sommet des Peuples à Rio de Janeiro au Brésil, le 18 juin 2012.

Le groupe AgroGeneration, spécialisé dans la production de céréales et d'oléagineux en Ukraine et en Argentine, a annoncé, mardi, le lancement d'un emprunt obligataire « ouvert à tous » (y compris les investisseurs individuels) de 15 millions d'euros.

Gobierno de Paraguay detectó presencia de empresarios uruguayos 
que compraron tierras públicas en forma irregular.

Venus de différents coins du continent, les sociétés civiles, ONGs et mouvement sociaux ont exprimé leur ras-le-bol face à l’accaparement illicite des terres.

The Right Livelihood Award Foundation co-organised a seminar in the Swedish Parliament on June 14, 2012 where a new report on land grabbing by researchers of the Right Livelihood College Campus in Lund was released.

The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities inEthiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Le Français Lionel Soulard, directeur général de Cargill West Africa, basé à Abidjan, a entamé des négociations avec l’Etat ivoirien pour la mise à disposition de 50 000 ha de terres agricoles afin de créer des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile.