The financial collapse of a project by UK-based Sun Biofuels shows how the development dream can quickly turn into a nightmare for local people.

Ukraine will have no farmland market in the near future, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.

The problems of access to land for women and communities have been worsened by the land grab perpetuated by multinationals and society's wealthy.

India is one of Africa’s biggest investors in agricultural land.

A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.

This paper examines the incidence of large-scale purchase of agricultural land in Africa by Indian investors.

MetLife Inc, the largest US life insurer, started a business to make agricultural loans in Brazil as insurers expand in developing markets and seek investments to boost income with interest rates near record lows.

The New South Wales Farmers Association, in Australia, has switched policies to back much tighter restrictions on foreign companies and investment funds buying Australian farmland.

"We have made some fundamental mistakes over the past few years," PNG's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, told ABC Radio Australia.

Via Campesina highlights the risks that peasant agriculture will face if the issue of agricultural investment were to open the door to new land- water- and natural resources’ grabbing.

A prominent activist staged a demonstration outside the 2nd Commercial Farm Asia conference at Yangon’s Parkroyal Hotel, calling on participants to respect the tenure rights of the country’s farmers.

Foreigners will be prevented from purchasing arable land in Hungary under the new land law, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday.