Many Ukrainians now prefer to lease their land rather than work it themselves.

Les investissements privés, réclamés pourtant à cor et à cri par tous les bailleurs de fonds comme seule solution au développement de l’Afrique, semblent être aujourd’hui considérés avec suspicion : les entreprises, notamment non occidentales, doivent passer le grand oral, et les pays africains agir sous tutelle.

El Tejar will plant more than 1 million acres in Mato Grosso this upcoming season and nearly 2.75 million acres across South America, making it the largest farm company in the world.

Interviews avec des présidents de conseils ruraux, agriculteurs et agricultrices de trois régions du Sénégal.

Anthony "Chocfinger" Ward, the commodities trader whose group Armajaro Holdings has just cornered the cocoa market, is planning his next move into food.

A farmland development group backed by Jacob Rothschild is to become the first Brazilian company to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange

Standard Bank plans to finance more land deals involving South African farmers seeking expansion opportunities across the continent to grow export crops, the bank said on Friday.

This note, in English, follows a report by the taskforce on “Transactions of agricultural assets to foreign investors in developing countries” set up by the Centre d’analyse stratégique and chaired by Michel Clavé of Crédit Agricole S.A.

Global Witness proposes how the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure can best address the macroeconomic impacts of corruption and governance failures in large scale land acquisitions.

Opponents of land grabbing say the capital, technology and expertise from large land investments are unlikely to trickle down to poor farmers.

The Chinese firm COMPLANT will purchase the Jamaican government's remaining sugar assets and lease 18,000 ha of the island's cane land for 50-75 years.

Growing world food insecurity is ushering in a new geopolitics of food scarcity, one where competition for land and water is crossing national boundaries.

Maori party maverick MP Hone Harawira wants to ban the sale of New Zealand land to foreigners.

A behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to protect their livelihoods, as US-owned Dominion Farms takes their lands.

Most other countries have much tighter controls over foreign investment than New Zealand.