Businesses and wealthy oligarchs have taken ownership over huge tracts of agricultural land, and pushed into poverty a large number of smallholders.

A group of South African investors have indicated interest to plough $200 million in the agriculture sector and acquire an initial 5,000 ha in Nigeria's Edo, Enugu and Benue states.

CSR Asia has published a new report that examines the rise of “land grabs” in Asia and how this impacts on poor and vulnerable people in the region.

James Cameron, Canadian-born director of Titanic and Avatar, has bought up two more properties, bringing his total purchases of farms in the area to at least 12.

Community groups have welcomed the Papua New Guinea Government's announcement it will abolish special agricultural business leases.

As negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project.

Text of the decision by the Papua New Guinea Government to repeal the provisions of the Structural Agriculture Business Lease (SABL) in the Lands Act to prevent anymore SABL dealings.

Land grabs by foreign companies in poor parts of Africa and Asia could feed an extra 100 million people if the land is used to grow crops, say researchers.

Can Africa's fertile farmland feed the world?

The GCC businessmen's body has called on the region's private sector to come together and jointly invest in agriculture, fishing and livestock breeding locally as well as overseas

Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.

Felda hopes to acquire New Britain Palm Oil Ltd, which has 77,000ha of oil palm plantations, 7,700ha of sugar cane plantations and 9,200ha of grazing pastures in Papua New Guinea.