The Coalition has increased scrutiny of foreign purchases of rural land, but how much is currently owned overseas and are the concerns valid?

Agriculture Minister Otar Danelia says Georgia is prepared to support the implementation of Chinese investments in Georgian agriculture.

Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group

The foreign ownership of agricultural land is a significant issue in many countries and is gaining increasing attention here in the United States.

ADECRU denounces the concession of large tracts of land to Portucel, Lúrio Green and other companies without the least consultation with affected communities.

The EU is currently witnessing a massive land grab, which has a direct impact on 25 million of its citizens, changing the way lands are being managed and how food is being produced.

12.4 per cent of Australia’s agricultural land has some level of foreign ownership, with 95 per cent of this land in the hands of just 45 overseas companies.

A recent comprehensive survey by GRAIN, examining data from around the world, finds that while small farmers feed the world, they are doing so with just 24 percent of the world's farmland.

The Tanzanian food industry that Omani business companies can tap into is not only confined to what is grown on the field but the fishing industry as well, says speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Anne Makinda.

As investors rush to East and southern Africa for large-scale land acquisitions, a majority of Africa’s farmers now farm on less than one hectare.

500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.

Earlier this week, the Overseas Investment Office said it did not know how much farmland was owned by foreigners. Yesterday it told Prime Minister Key it believed the amount is 1 to 2 per cent.

The killing on 27th July 2014 of a teenage farmer by a soldier from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces is the latest tragedy emerging out of Cambodia’s land grabbing crisis.

The global land grab is not the consequence of ad hoc crises; it is the logical outcome from the policies and political environment laid down before it.

Businesses and wealthy oligarchs have taken ownership over huge tracts of agricultural land, and pushed into poverty a large number of smallholders.

A new survey reports that foreign ownership of Australian farmland grew by 4.7 million hectares in just two-and-a-half years.

Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN

Serge Fortin, chief executive of Canadian farmland investment company Pangea, believes Quebec's small farms must be replaced by larger farms to survive

The problem is often not so much regulations as the failure to implement them or a lack of practical control, write Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag.

China has plans to lease about 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in Crimea, says Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

Why the struggle to quantify the global land grabbing crisis is part of the problem.

Paradis agricole, la Roumanie est de plus en plus convoitée par les investisseurs étrangers, au risque de voir ses terres arables lui échapper.

The target is 500,000 hectares by 2020, nearly four times the current level.

Once Kyrgyzstan joins the Eurasian Economic Union, due for early 2015 and so far consisting of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia, it will have both the obligation and a chance to allow investors from partner countries to lease its farmland.

As the economy thrives, filmmakers Veronique Mauduy and Romain Pelleray examine the plight of Ethiopians forced from their land to make way for foreign investors.

Chinese entrepreneurs are going global ahead of officials. Countries with developed agriculture such as the US, Australia, Chile and Argentina have become their prime destinations.

A new review sought by Assembly Republicans of a law that limits foreign ownership of state land was criticized Thursday by an Assembly Democrat who called it an “end-around” attempt to change it.

Chinese firms already lease or control at least 600,000 hectares of land in Russia's Far East, which is equivalent to the size of a small U.S. state like Delaware.

On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.

On the margins of the annual World Bank land and poverty conference in April a donor roundtable agreed to establish a first global donor working group on land, which was launched recently. Video interview with the first chair of the group, from DFID.