Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, says that while foreign investment in agriculture is increasing, “We have to recognize that potential risks, such as land grab, may pose serious threats to developing country farmers.”

An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.

This three years memorandum is not only setting a framework of cooperation but it includes some specific steps such as mutual beneficial arrangements in the agricultural sector (e.g. investment and provision of grain, development of a grain terminal)

On 8 July 2009, almost a hundred development practitionners from all over the world convened in Utrecht to participate to the DPRN Expert Seminar “Commercial Pressures on Land: rethinking policies and practice for development”.

"In the conditions of the current food crisis, development of 20 million hectares of Russian agricultural land, unused since 1991, could be re-launched," says Russia's president

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is calling on the private sector to invest in the 336,000 hectares that the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority plans to complete to make the land suitable for agriculture.

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

Abia State Governor Otti disclosed this while receiving in audience a delegation of an Israeli – Agro business Investment Company, AgroTop Israel and their development partners from Max Agro Farm.

Al Dahra will probably invest about $800 million to farm 200,000 acres [81,000 ha] of land at an irrigation development located in the coastal region, according to Kenya’s principal secretary for irrigation, Ephantus Kimotho.

Fayus Nigeria Limited has commenced the development of a 3,000-hectare plantation in Ugbeturu Community, Owan West Local Council in Edo State, Nigeria

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government has given companies like Olam access to large hectares of farmlands, a development some peasant farmers say has succeeded in relegating them to the background.

Greenpeace Afrique et Green Development Advocates mettent en lumière l’implication de la France dans Camvert, un projet de palmeraie susceptible de détruire 60 000 hectares de forêt équatoriale au sud du Cameroun.

“GVL came here and told our people to give it land so it can provide citizens with jobs and development. Now, we have given GVL land and the jobs have been taken away from us"

Inclusive Development International, Equitable Cambodia and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) issue a joint statement to the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights highlights a decade-long struggle by displaced Cambodian communities against Asia’s largest sugar company Mitr Pohl

The villagers say they never received compensation for farmland lost to a sugarcane company owned by a senator, another company owned by businessman Heng Huy, and to Chinese company the Union Development Group.

Large-scale development projects, including monocrop plantations, are increasing in the region causing serious human rights violations as indigenous people lose their traditional lands and resources

Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE

There can be no denying that the Kuraz sugar plantation project has so far failed on its “development promises” made to the indigenous local communities.

The Rwanda Development Board signs agreement with Israeli firm Netafim to develop irrigation for 5,600 ha agricultural project in Eastern Province.

“We need to work with affected communities to negotiate mutually beneficial land deals that genuinely offer win wins for communities, individual farmers and investors," says representative of UK’s Department for International Development.

The African Development Bank is nevertheless accelerating a push for projects such as the failed 80,000 hectare Bukanga Lonzo project in the DRC, for which it provided about $1 million to finance a feasibility study.

The Ugandan government is in advanced discussions with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to extend the BIDCO oil palm project beyond Kalangala district.

Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda

Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land  to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved US$10 million equity investment in Phatisa Food Fund2 (PFF2) to boost agriculture and nutrition across Africa

The group, backed by European development banks, revealed it had sold 90% of its Zampalm operation to the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia, a state-backed fund, for $16m

The financing from the UK's development finance institution will help Jacoma expand its farming operations at its Tropha Estates in Northern Malawi, where it produces high value macadamia nuts, chilli and paprika.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company have confirmed plans for their joint investment in two of Russia's largest agricultural and food companies.

The EU will not meet the Sustainable Development Goals without concerted action to reduce its role in the trade, production and consumption of products grown on deforested land, often illegally.

The deal will hand the UK government's development agency a 17.5% stake in Zambeef, which is pursuing Zambia's first oil palm plantation on over 20,000 ha.