New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement policy carried out in a political climate of torture, oppression and silencing.

Companies with SABL leases are nervous that their unlawfully acquired rights could be extinguished and are looking for ways to protect their positions. Once again, it could be the Department of Lands that comes to their assistance.

The announcement of the sale - which is expected to attract significant foreign interest - comes a month after the government said it would clamp down on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

A new study examines large-scale land acquisitions by the agro-industrial sector in Cameroon since 2005.

New Mxico's SIC makes its second investment into an agriculture-related fund this year by investing $75 million in Brookfield Brazil AgriLand Fund II, after it approved a $200m commitment to a TIAA-CREF fund in February.

The Global Donor Working Group on Land provided an overview of ongoing work to develop operational guidance for the private sector to implement the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land.

The Tanzanian government sacked senior officials of the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada) over the disappearance of more than Sh2.3 billion funds, some of which were for the acquistion of lands.

Sudan is hosting the agriculture ministers from Egypt and Saudi Arabia for discussions on a proposal made by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir to use his country’s vast fertile lands to achieve Arab food security.

The meeting brought together Economic and Trade Ministers from the UAE, Ghana, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Macedonia to discuss how direct investment could be channeled into agribusiness to achieve food security and prosperity.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €4 million loan to Spanish-owned Sanlucar Flor’alia, the first large-scale raspberry plantation ever established in Tunisia.

Land grabs in Africa are helping to perpetuate economic inequalities similar to the colonial era economic imbalances.

As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.