There are countless examples of governments handing it over at bargain prices to foreign investors, ranging from hedge funds to biofuel producers.

The world's quest for crops to produce biofuels has triggered a wave of controversial land acquisitions in Tanzania as foreign companies jostle for land that villagers and indigenous people claim as theirs.

A technical committee formed by the Ministry of Agricultural Development to give final shape to Nepal's Agriculture Development Strategy has recommended barring foreign investment and land ownership in primary farm production.

A technical committee formed by Nepal's Ministry of Agricultural Development has recommended barring foreign investment and land ownership in primary farm production.

While PNG's Prime Minister sits on his hands refusing to cancel unlawful SABL leases, the Oro Provincial government is standing with its people against the Malaysian led land grab.

Peasant group described as a mockery of UN-declared International Year of Family Farming the illegal arrest of peasant leader and his family in Hacienda Looc.

Almarai has recently received the first shipment of feed estimated at 39 thousand tons coming from farms owned by the company in Argentina.

"The key drivers are the expansion of industrial logging trade, land grabs by agribusiness and mining projects."

Both the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo have vowed to increase their participation in the Committee on World Food Security.

Farmers express alarm over alleged massive land-use conversion, which targets productive agricultural lands supposed to be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

Over nine thousand farmers and pastoralist in St. Louis in the north of Senegal are facing possible evictions from their land as multi-national agro-industries scramble for agricultural land in the region.

The policies of the World Bank are encouraging land grabs in the developing world, writes Anuradha Mittal.