Communities have more hope than ever of seeing off companies trying to acquire their land, with support from media and NGOs.

If there is “blood diamond”, there is also such a thing as “blood maize”, “blood soya” and “blood pulses”.

PrimeAg Australia has agreed to sell 60 per cent of its land and water portfolio to US financial services organisation TIAA-CREF for up to $126 million.

Where will Cambodia find enough land for the next generation?

Describing itself as a consultant and “master distributor” of products designed “to bring working capital to a variety of projects” – including upgrading farmland overseas and forestry –Intelligent Partnership published a 76 page report on the alternatives sector this week.

Fracking is an expression of the water and land grabbing agenda already underpinning expanding corporate takeover of natural resources, write Jennifer Franco, Timothé Feodoroff and Ana Maria Rey Martinez

Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.

This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure

Sweden's second buffer fund hopes to increase its agricultural and timberland investments beyond the current 10% strategic benchmark for real estate, the fund's chief investment strategist has told IPE

Agriterra revealed headway in its long-held desire to expand into cocoa production, acquiring 1,750 hectares of plantations, and forecasting further purchases with a windfall from a sale of oil interests.

"Nigeria has offered land for us, no matter how large we need," says Indonesian Industry Minister MS Hidayat

There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.