An opposition party in Mali wrote to the country's president demanding that details of contracts leasing out massive areas of agricultural land be made public.

Archer Daniels Midland Co. announces a 5-year plan to invest in nearly 30,000 acres of palm trees in Brazil

Libya expects wheat imports to dip slightly on the back of an expected 50% rise in its wheat harvest this year, and is eyeing new investments in foreign farmland to ensure supplies, a government official said.

Youcoulele' dif Pap Sacko talks about a workshop on land grabs at the World Social Forum in Dakar and the case of the Malibya project in Mali.

Declaration from the workshop “Land Grabbing in Africa – Dangers and Challenges” that was held from 6 to 9 February, 2011, in Mbour / Senegal, as a side event to the World Social Forum 2011.

Gates says many large land deals in Africa are beneficial, criticizes Western groups for holding them back, and says those who invest in Africa are the ones who are at risk.

Ato Tamiru, chairman of the Gumare Kebele in Gambella, western Ethiopia, and people in his kebele have been protesting the leasing of a large tract of land to an Indian company to be used for tea farming even though there is a severe food shortage in the country.

Interview with Ibrahima Coulibaly about land grabs in Mali

The leftist World Social Forum yesterday denounced land grabbing in Africa by foreign groups as a form of neo-colonialism in a day devoted to debates on the continent.

Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".

The UAE and other GCC member countries should draw up a unified food security strategy with the bloc, and not individual countries, investing in farms abroad to minimise risks of political blackmail.

Pakistan Foreign Minister says there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources.