The report “Uncertain Futures. The impacts of Sime Darby on communities”, produced by SDI and WRM, gives a deeper insight in how industrial oil palm plantations affect women in a differentiated way.

People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.

The private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to back the medium-term expansion of ETC Group (ETG), incorporated in Mauritius and specializing trading in food and drink products.

North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said

A Malaysian company that came to Liberia and acquired huge land space, promised to plant about 20,000 hectares to do Liberia proud by investing in oil palm is today embroiled in controversy and internecine conflict.

With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.

Tianjin Agribusiness Company, which is handling large plots in northwestern Bulgaria, plans to build a factory for processing Bulgarian waste constituents of milk production and to export it to China in the form of dried derivatives.

There's been considerable disquiet over the presence of foreign buyers in the farmland market place, but the stats on the extent of foreign ownership and the emerging trends are far from clear.

The Russian farm operator - which controls a landbank of more than 3,000 square kilometres - underlines importance of 3-yr supply deal with PepsiCo, to grow beet for sugar and potatoes for making crisps.

We commit ourselves to opposing the ProSavana Programme so that neo-colonial land grabs will come to an end.

US Governor Scott Walker's budget proposes lifting a longtime prohibition on foreign ownership of large tracts of land in Wisconsin — a change that some legislators believe will allow other countries to gain too much control over some of the world's best farmland.

Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN.