Today, on the heels of Ukraine’s new cabinet appointments, the Oakland Institute is releasing a new brief detailing western agribusiness investments in the country.

A tunnel through the Andes will carry water to irrigate the dry Olmos region. But large land plots are being auctioned, favouring big firms over local farmers.

Organizations representing local farmers, Indigenous communities, and environmentalists gathered in Corrientes to demand an end to the land-grabbing by foreign investors in the province.

For Africa’s agriculture to realize its full potential the continent’s governments need to rethink their approach to encouraging investment, Morocco’s Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch says.

Algeria started its first commercial maize production this year and will soon approve applications from foreign investors to boost output and reduce reliance on imports, the head of the country's farmers' union said.

Booming industry faces allegations of human rights abuses such as land grabs, forced displacement and child labour.

According to the Association of Researchers in Middle East and Africa(ORDAF), political events and terror news are deliberately kept in the headlines to hide African land grabs by Western countries.

Groups from Asia and Africa issue statement to mark International Human Rights Day.

So much for the Ord as a ‘food bowl’. So much too for a new partnership with indigenous people. As in transactions with land-grabbers in poorer lands, the valued partnership now is with big money.

Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations.

Cargill met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and other senior government officials on Monday to discuss future investment in Indonesia's oil palm sector.

The Sudanese Minister of Investment, Dr Mustafa Osman Ismail, told reporters in Khartoum on Sunday that farmlands have been reserved for interested Egyptian farmers at a rate of 10 acres (4 ha) each.