Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he wants parliament to adopt a law on the agricultural land market and lift the moratorium on the sale of land by December 1, 2019.

A critical examination of the European Union's involvement in land grabbing

BPL, the Dutch pension fund for the Netherland’s agricultural and green sectors, is planning to divest its stake in Fagoed, a €140 million fund invested in agricultural land.

Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.

Consolidated Farming Limited, subsidiary of Sable group, will be investing US$200 million in setting up a large-scale palm oil project, with a 10,000 ha anchor farm and an out-grower scheme.

An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in Tanzania to look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the area of agriculture equipment and products.They will exchange views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry.

As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil fuels — are renewing their calls on Harvard to withdraw its holdings in farmland across the globe, including in Brazil.

Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two funds dedicated to buying farmland in Brazil that work with Brazilian companies to get around laws restricting direct foreign ownership.

Emmanuel Elong, a farmer from Cameroon, criticized land grabbing by foreign companies at a side event during the 7th African Development Conference (TICAD7) in Yokohama City.

The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million for the programme Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture.

The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, control and defend land – must be defended and advanced through everyday struggles; laws and policies on their own won’t make significant change