This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.

With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.

It is very important that the Colombian government takes actions to sustainably develop Colombia’s agricultural sector, without endangering its sovereign control over this sector.

At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.

Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".

"At the end of the day — for all the stocks and funds I've traded in countless industries — when I sit down and ponder true wealth, I always come back to one idea: land. Land can give you everything you need and more."

Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.

SNS Impact Investing interviewed Dr. George Owusu from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana in Accra.

With opportunities in neighboring countries almost finished and due to the expensive land, Brazilian agriculture has started showing up in Africa, here and there, but promising to grow.

The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines

“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas

The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi