Report provides legal analysis of twelve land deals from different parts of Africa, and discusses the contractual issues for which public scrutiny is most needed.

China is gearing up for a multi-billion-dollar investment push into the Australian agricultural sector to secure food supplies after a senior official admitted the country would face pressure supplying farm produce to its 1.3 billion people over the next five years.

Mauritian-listed JPT Capital Agrifund intends to invest Stg50 million ($A80 million) in wheat farms in Australia.

German investors have bought 11 dairy farms covering more than 3,600 hectares in New Zealand's South Island

The EBRD is providing a working capital facility worth USD$25 million to Mriya Agro Holding, which controls 220,000 hectares of land in the Ukraine.

In a recent letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Girma urges the Ministry to stop giving land to an Indian company, warning that such a deal would damage Meles Zenawi’s “good reputation” on the campaign against global warming.

"All of a sudden the world is waking up and saying, 'Wow, emerging markets, food security... this asset class is going to really perform in the medium term -- the next 8-20 years,'" says new convert James Howard, manager of the Futuregrowth Agri-Fund

On s’arrêtera notamment sur l’impressionnant chapitre consacré au phénomène du "Land Grabbing" ou "accaparement des terres agricoles"

As an investment destination, Africa can be a confounding place. The latest bout of turmoil and violence in Cote d'Ivoire and Tunisia looks to all the world like another chapter in an unending cycle of political instability.

Gulf Merchant Bank launches aquaculture fund and acquires 400ha land concession.

Chadha Agro Plc, one of India’s giant operators in agro business, is set to receive 100,000 ha of Oromian land (an area nearly twice the size of Singapore country) in addition to the 300,000 ha of land given to various other Indian investors recently.

The lure of cheap land and the promise of making big money are making local farmers and NRIs invest in African countries like Liberia and Ethiopia, whose economies were wrecked by the civil wars.

Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.

Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.

Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.