The charges brought against the human rights defenders relate to a food security workshop that the they were due to attend in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2015.

Chinese investors have spent $120 million in the last two months buying rural properties across Australia and the signs are that the buying spree is only the beginning, with more than $1 billion worth of deals in play.

Olam International Ltd., a commodity trader controlled by Singapore's investment company, plans to more than double coffee-plantation acreage in Africa to improve quality control on the continent.

This video looks into the scale, drivers and impacts of the global rush for land. In this video we hear from indigenous peoples from Asia, Latin America and Africa who have first hand experience of the impacts of land grabs.

Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.

As we commemorate Rural Women's Day on October 15 and World Food (less) Day on October 16, we join rural women and all rural folk to the rallying call: Women, assert our rights to land and resources! No land, No life!

The fate of the Garifuna people of Honduras hangs in the balance as they face a Honduran state that is all too eager to accommodate the neoliberal agenda of US and Canadian investors.

Resignation of CEO is latest setback to the project in north-eastern China's Jilin province meant to diversify food sources for Singaporeans and help improve safety standards for Chinese consumers.

Via Campesina says peasants are victims of human rights violations on every continent, though exclusion, land grabbing and repression of their leaders.

The $70 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a US$100 million investment in Brookfield Brazil Agriculture II, a $700m vehicle being raised by Canada's largest asset manager.

Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty according to a new report by NGO Forum on Cambodia.

Ethiopian authorities should drop charges and release three local activists charged under repressive anti-terrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security, say six international organisations.