Family farms produce 80 percent of world's food, speculators seek land

• Reuters
• 16 October 2014

Some analysts worry that family farms are under increasing pressure from speculators, as prices for land rise due to a growing world population.

CFS in Rome: The majority of governments remain blind to the challenges of global food security

• Via Campesina
• 16 October 2014

Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.

Principles for responsible agriculture and food investments are approved

• FAO
• 16 October 2014

FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"

Development miracle or environmental disaster? A look behind the oil palm controversy

• CIFOR
• 16 October 2014

New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.

CFS agri investment principles don't uphold food, land rights - PAN AP

• PANAP
• 16 October 2014

PAN Asia Pacific says the principles on agricultural investment are self-contradicting and fail in promoting the human right to food, land and resources.

Mozambique heads to polls amid claims of Chinese landgrabs – in pictures

• Guardian
• 15 October 2014

The ruling Frelimo party has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice.

Lagos to acquire more farmland in Osun, Oyo

• New Telegraph
• 15 October 2014

Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".

Land grabbing fuelling violent conflict in Gambela region

• ASO
• 15 October 2014

At the heart of the current conflict is the government's development policy and the uncontrolled influx of migrants acquiring lands in the indigenous people’s territories.

PNG: Billionaire financiers erode food sovereignty, says new report

• Pacific Media Centre
• 14 October 2014

Siva Group's oil palm plantation land deal in Papua New Guinea described as "one of the worst land development schemes ever".

UkrLandFarming seeks funds to buy troubled rivals

• Agrimoney
• 14 October 2014

UkrLandFarming, the Ukraine agriculture giant in which Cargill bought a stake in January, is seeking further investors to fund a warchest for buying on the cheap groups brought low by the country's crisis.

EBRD and private sector ready to invest in Ukraine’s agribusiness

• UkrAgroConsult
• 14 October 2014

EBRD's agribusiness clients say they want a functional land lease market that will eliminate land tenure issues.

Agribusiness land rush in Palawan must end: Calling for a moratorium on oil palm expansion

• CALG
• 14 October 2014

Palawan, in spite of its unique recognition as a UNESCO Man & Biosphere Reserve, has not been spared from massive investments in extractive resources and industrial agriculture, especially oil palm development.