Guinea's Minister of Trade, Marc Yombouno, says that if the Malaysian company completes the project within five years the Republic of Guinea will provide the company with an additional 100,000 ha.

According to data provider Preqin, there are 25 private equity funds targeting agriculture investments, with a total target of $1.1 billion.

Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

The entire edifice of Karuturi's enterprise, especially the Gambella 300,000 ha, is allegedly founded on corruption (bribery) and too many lies, writes The Ethiopian Observatory.

Last week representatives of communities, indigenous peoples and NGOs met in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to discuss deforestation and the rights of forest peoples.

Workers at the Bomi plantation, who requested anonymity, said the blaze was started by suspected arsonists and had blazed for about two weeks before being brought under control.

The project will focus on two areas -- Ngalam Valley and Lac de Guiers that have parcels of land of 15,000 and 40,000 hectares which are suitable for commercial expansion.

China led the reclamation of the largest abandoned rice farm in Mozambique, with the blessing of the authorities. But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands.

Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture.

Large plantations are destroying forests, damaging wildlife and causing social conflict in Asia and Africa, report finds.

Two new reports from the Oakland Institute show how Western development assistance is supporting forced evictions and massive violations of human rights in Ethiopia.

Audit says Liberian government failed to fully apply its own laws when awarding land concessions to palm oil companies Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum and recommends urgent remedial action

Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion

An American multinational, AVCO Agri Company Limited Ghana has acquired 500 hectares of land at Dorfor Agorveme in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region to start rice cultivation

A Malaysian company that came to Liberia and acquired huge land space, promised to plant about 20,000 hectares to do Liberia proud by investing in oil palm is today embroiled in controversy and internecine conflict.

Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.

Tanzania has set a ceiling for investors wanting to buy its agricultural land, a move welcomed by land rights campaigners

From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use.

Kenana Sugar Company is the head of the spear of the Sudanese project for agricultural development. While governments and Arab companies discuss strategies for the sector, the organisation plans to invest US$ 2 billion over the next five years in several expansion projects.

"It seems incongruous that Herakles Farms claims it is trying to improve the lives of local people but then there is scarcely any consultation with those same people over what is to be done with the land they depend on for their livelihoods, nor any serious acknowledgment of the risks posed to local environments and the global climate," writes Kumi Naidoo

Investment firms describe it as the next golden opportunity. They say they're taking and using underutilised and uncultivated land. But as MaraPost's *Charles Mkula* reports, simply put, it's land-grabbing and somethings has to be done about it

Cevital, Algeria’s biggest sugar producer, asked Ivory Coast’s government to make land available for the production of rice, sugar, maize and vegetable oil, according to a company official.

The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make land available for foreign investment in agriculture, advocacy groups say.

While interest in Australian agricultural land is coming from all quarters, it is the prospect of sovereign investment to shore up a nation's food security that is attracting the most attention.

Iowa State University has landed in some hot water regarding its involvement with an international land development project in Tanzania.

Global food price volatility will be the focus of World Food Day celebrations in Rome on Monday which will also address the issue of massive farmland purchases by rich countries in the developing world

Il Corno d’Africa è afflitto dalla più grave tragedia umanitaria che la sua storia ricordi. Siccità e fame, 12 milioni di persone senza cibo né acqua. Ma il “neocolonialismo agricolo” procede indisturbato.

The government of Pakistan has offered 6mn acres of its agricultural land to resourceful countries and multinational companies (MNCs) for corporate farming, corporate sources have said.

The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.

Land grabbing in Pakistan has faced stiff resistance in different forms by the members of civil society organizations including farmers’ organizations, Tanveer Arif says.