European food companies are illegally grabbing land from smallhold farmers in Africa as part of the G8 New Alliance project, says an Action Aid report published this month.

An official of Davao City, Philippines said Monday that a Malaysian company is set to develop a 1,000-hectare property for oil palm in Marilog District.

DanChurchAid, CARE Denmark and MS calls for more transparency of pension investments in African agriculture.

This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.

On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.

Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.

PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.

Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.

The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.

Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights.

What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.

The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.