Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart has introduced amendments to Saskatchewan’s farm security legislation that will make pension plans and their administrators ineligible from owning farmland in the province.

L’Association des femmes rurales de la commune de Fandène a réuni à Fandène productrices, élus locaux et autres acteurs du développement pour échanger sur la problématique de l’accaparement des terres.

The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22.

« Des terres et des territoires » : Visionscarto rend régulièrement compte de ce récit cartographique, qui prend peu à peu forme sous le pinceau d’Agnès Stienne. Notre ambition est de le faire vivre sous la forme d’une exposition itinérante traduite en plusieurs langues, ainsi que d’un web-documentaire. Son auteure lance ici un appel à soutien et participation.

Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.

Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.

Pension fund manager TIAA-CREF's farmland assets grew by 56% to $7.8 billion in committed assets.

The oil palm industry’s rapid growth in West Papua, Indonesia is having serious adverse effects on its indigenous population.

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.

Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.