This is the question addressed by researchers and activists at a recent IDRC Workshop on Large-scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) and Accountability in Africa, in Dakar, Senegal on 24-25 November 2015.
The Egyptian-Sudanese Integration Company is implementing the Blue Nile State's Ad-Damazin project on an area of about 100,000 acres and a meat project in White Nile State.
US real estate company Property Connections of Bay City says it has sold over $100 million worth of farmland in Texas in the last two years to Chinese buyers.
The Namibian government has received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects but only a few of have materialised or have been operationalised.
Two Singaporean agriculture and property group, HLH and Select Group has acquired a 30 per cent interest in two plots of lands in Cambodia through its subsidiary.
To mark the International Human Rights Day today, peasant and indigenous groups are filing cases to seek justice for victims of human rights violations related to land conflicts.
Land grabbing is a direct acquisition of land shaped by failures of democracy, and economic governance.
Leaders of Ha Nam provincial government agree to allocate 50 hectares of land in Hung Cong commune, Binh Luc district to Japanese company Seibu Nousan for the cultivation of Japonica rice for export to Japan.
Emirati investors have agreed to invest up to 37 million euros on six agriculture projects in Morocco.
Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Foreign investment rules controlling overseas ownership of farmland and agribusinesses are not as tough in Australia as in many countries', but the Business Council of Australia says they still confuse and discourage potential investment.
Hundreds of small farmers in northern Mozambique have been evicted since 2013 to make way for a mega farm that will produce the soybeans for feed for chickens