What is to be done? Obviously, we need an immediate moratorium on land grabs.

“The pain to pass my lost land each day is so big that I cry,” says local chief.

Government’s policies of liberalizing land markets and focusing on foreign investment are having a detrimental impact on Zambia’s rural poor.

Company with a landbank of 220,000 ha in the Ukaraine plans $300m bond issue.

DeSchutter says he never thought it was a good idea to endorse the World Bank's proposal on landgrabs.

The group currently has 151,000 hectares under management, a figure which it claims makes it the sixth-largest listed farm operator in Europe.

Recent business delegations from Iran and Qatar expressed strong interest in buying farmland in Uruguay to develop their own production projects.

"Several very powerful groups in the Middle East are seriously considering the 3.2 million hectares that Serbia has to offer."

Agroinvest plans to invest 1 billion riyals overseas but is waiting for details on Kingdom's policy.

Saudi Arabia and Ireland will explore possibilities on how to clinch deals with countries that can offer food security for the Kingdom

Fears that faceless corporations and international investors would become the new barons of the Australian bush have proved to be unfounded

Qatar gives special attention to investments in Sudan in agricultural fields and livestock.