ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment

The main objective of this essay is to draw the attention of fellow Ethiopians to the issue. So that it stays front and center in our contemporary political agenda, until we manage to mobilize the necessary popular pressure and try our best to stop it from taking effect.

The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources.

The model of owning farmland and operating it suits long-term, low-risk investors, with most investments so far being from institutions. The downside is that farmland investments provide little chance of a quick exit, unlike more liquid holdings.

"Our message is clear: it is not up to the G8 to set development strategies and programmes for Africa."

Olam, majority-owned by Temasek Holdings, will suspend clearing forest in the West African country of Gabon for a year, the company announced in a press release.

José Graziano da Silva, directeur-général de la FAO, a admis qu’il était impossible d’empêcher les gros investisseurs d’acheter de la terre, mais que les transactions menées dans les pays pauvres devaient être encadrées.

Farmers along Colorado's Grand Valley are concerned a New York City-based hedge fund is buying farmland to speculate on water.

UK-based investor AgDevCo has expanded its geographic reach into Cote d’Ivoire with an €8.7 million investment in DekelOil, an agribusiness leader in the West African palm oil and cashew sectors.This investment brings AgDevCo’s portfolio to more than 40 active investments totaling $170 million across sub-Saharan Africa.

The West Australia State Government is set to take to market a big parcel of land on the Ord River irrigation scheme in a litmus test of its relationship with a major Chinese investor in WA’s far north.

Land prices have increased dramatically and despite a moratorium on foreign land purchasing, foreign entities have found a way to buy land. Polish farmers are despairing and protesting en masse.

MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands

Sahel Capital’s portfolio companies in Africa have cumulative 16,000 hectares of commercial farmland and aggregate additional crop from over 9,000 smallholder farmers.

Brewster Kneen discusses what, in the West, is largely overlooked in discussions about land grabbing: how we conceptualize and think about land and our relationship to it.

This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.

We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.

African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters

Emirati firm Elite Agro are interested in investing in Sierra Leone to help the West African nation grow its own food to feed its people with enough to export

Sierra Leone authorities have arrested 39 protesters in the south of the West African nation, following tensions between the local population and a unit of Socfin, owned by France's Bolloré Group

Liberia's $800 million palm and rubber deal with Malaysian firm Sime Darby will create 20,000 much needed jobs in the West African country

ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.

In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.

In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.

Ethiopia’s government said it plans to clear land and provide infrastructure for investors to accelerate a commercial farming drive in the west of the country, amid opposition to the plans that left 19 people dead.

Rich soil, a tropical climate, and an abundance of water: the region of Gambela in the west of the country is fertile. Foreign investors are renting thousands of hectares of it to develop intensive agriculture without regard for the environment and the population, reports Le Monde.

Obtaining millions of hectares for farming in Africa, Indian firms are playing predator.

A farmer in eastern Cameroon has challenged a government ruling forcing him to cede his land to Chinese rice farmers.

New Zealand-based agency Bayleys is putting together a portfolio of overseas property opportunities, including farms, to take on a roadshow to South East Asia, Europe and Britain.

Scotland’s richest man, an oil giant, an earl, and private equity and property firms are among those developing carbon credit projects that critics say are pushing up land prices and allowing companies to “greenwash” their image.

Villagers in Cameroon have been going through a night mare to find what to eat on a daily basis after their lands were taken for a Chinese rice project over a decade ago.