Irrico, the Russia-based agricultural investment company, revealed it is on the verge of doubling its land portfolio as it unveiled it had attracted a third investor, emerging markets private equity group Hong Kong-based ADM Capital.

Large scale privatization of state-owned agricultural lands in Georgia has the potential to trigger violence and social unrest of far graver consequences for investment – foreign and domestic – into the national economy than the notorious moratorium.

It has been reported that the state-owned China Investment Corporation and New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra are negotiating to buy Tasmanian dairy farm Van Diemen's Land under a proposed $200 million deal.

Farmers in Bombali and Tonkolili districts in northern Sierra Leone have said that land grabbing by multi-national companies and massive timber logging are some of the barriers to sustainable agriculture in the two districts.

Indigenous Peoples are being forced to become dependent on aid handouts having lost their land and their ability to produce their own food.

"Instead of handing over farming land to foreign companies, our government should promote policies that sustainably increase productivity and help Liberian farmers access local markets," says Friends of the Earth Liberia.

Decenas de organizaciones los señalan como responsables de la subida del precio de los alimentos y el acaparamiento de tierras para cultivos.

Manifestó que tiene claro que su trabajo tocó intereses que generaron tensiones y acosos en su contra, al denunciar penal y disciplinariamente administraciones pasadas que adjudicaron irregularmente terrenos.

The European Parliament has voted to limit the use of fuels made from food crops because of fears that biofuels can push up grain prices and displace communities, but critics say it avoids meaningful action to reduce European demand.

A move by the Indonesian government to buy one million hectares of land for beef production in Australia for its own local market has reignited the foreign ownership debate.

Indonesia has moved to solve its beef supply problems by approving a plan to buy one million hectares of Australian farmland, a plot four times the size of the Australian Capital Territory.

Indonesia's announcement yesterday that it plans to buy a million hectares of Australian agricultural land to raise beef cattle is the clearest signal yet that it wants to lower its dependence on the current live export system.