A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

This policy brief presents the different sources of law that are triggered by the use of water for farmland investments, and makes recommendations to help reconcile different legal regimes while ensuring water issues are adequately addressed.

To Karuturi, who has also offered to grow up to one million tonne of lentils for India on farm tracts leased in Ethiopia, the Mozambique model is an example of "political correctness."

Opponents of the Ethiopian government’s policies have faced violence, but the EU has continued to provide funding for its commercial land deal projects.

Throughout the Congo Basin sub-region, whether in Mundemba (Cameroon) or Mboma (Gabon), we see agribusiness increasingly competing with local agricultural economies.

Landowning families in southern Sierra Leone have commenced legal action in the country’s High Court against African Lion Agriculture Limited and Carmanor (SL) Limited to recover possession of around 2303 acres of land.

Communities in the DRC are organising to liberate their communities from the occupation and exploitation that they have endured for generations.

European Union (EU) corporate and financial entities involved in land grabbing may be implicated in a variety of human rights abuses.

Today, the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources with support from the European Union and Germany launched a 3.8 million euro project to support responsible agricultural investment in Ethiopia.

Five workers from the troubled Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha have died over the last three months while waiting for their dues after the farm was placed under liquidation and over 3,000 workers sent packing.

A China-led consortium seeking to buy Australia's S. Kidman & Co will hold off on a fresh bid for the country's largest agricultural land owner amid concerns it could be derailed by a more protectionist new government, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

CSO Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia concerned by reports that draft law has been altered significantly behind closed doors, and calls on the legislature to immediately release the new draft for scrutiny by the public and civil society.