PepsiCo enacting policy that will have zero tolerance for land grabs by agricultural suppliers.

Governor of Edo State announces allocation of another 20,000 ha of land to SOCFIN's Okomu Oil Palm Plc and 50,000 hectares of land to Dangote Group for rice production.

China has plans to lease about 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in Crimea, says Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

Saudi food firms have invested in Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, but their respective political situations have forced investors to look for alternatives, with Pakistan and Australia looking to be a good fit.

Under an agreement between the Volta Regional Coordinating Council and China's Ningxia Province, the Ningxia Agricultural Development Group will begin investing in 100 hectares acquired at the irrigation site.

Where the culprits were largely governments and authoritative bodies, now multinational governments are working with these entities to take lands and deprive local communities of critical resources.

Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.

The Lao government has approved hundreds of thousands of hectares in concessions, but has yet to identify how many hectares of land investors have already used or whether they have followed their original proposals.

Can we minimize downsides and maximize benefits of transnational land investments?

Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley

Singapore's Temasek is part of a consortium that is offering $2.1 billion cash for Olam, one of the world's largest farmland owners.

Former Nigerian president and notorious land grabber Olusegun Obasanjo and UK rock star Bob Geldof say "Africa needs large, commercial farms as well as small ones."