The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness.

The African agriculture sector is showing signs of improvements attributed to BRICS investment flows in smaller agricultural projects, reversing the trend triggered by the global food crisis in 2008.

As ratings agencies and risk insurers increasingly factor in land tenure risk to their premiums, investors need to be aware of the potential costs that might be incurred through disruption, sabotage or loss of assets and the further possibility that the strong-arm tactics used by some African states to resolve disputes could invalidate or seriously impact on the level of insurance cover.

The army's attack on indigenous communities is suspected to be directly related to a land grab in the area by the Turkish company Tekron Group.

What we call land-grabbing is often more about access to irrigation. We urgently need to know how much is being purloined

It alleges that the dealings of Karuturi Global, one of India’s largest flower growers, in the African nation do not smell as sweet as what it grows

With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.

Africa’s agriculture and food industries are attracting increasing interest from investors. This trend is largely fuelled by the fact that the continent has 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, with favourable weather conditions in many countries.

The takeover of peoples' land and water by corporations – even if they are from the global south – is a new form of colonisation, writes Anuradha Mittal.

Indian companies are among the biggest land holders in the African country through deals concluded in dubious circumstances

Korean diplomats are working hard to help Daewoo Logistics regain a huge land deal it lost after a 2009 coup d’etat in the island nation in anticipation of new elections slated for the first half of this year, according to Viru News

If there is “blood diamond”, there is also such a thing as “blood maize”, “blood soya” and “blood pulses”.

Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.

There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.

Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government's selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports.

He said the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority and Finance Ministry would sign agreements with foreign countries to ensure investment security of Saudis.

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

Indian companies that have invested in agriculture in Ethiopia are under fire from civil society groups. The companies have been accused of large-scale land grabbing, which has led to displacement of the tribal population there.

Indigenous Ethiopians demand a stop to human rights abuses stemming from agricultural investment policies

Faced with reports of land grabbing by Indian companies in some African countries, especially Ethiopia, the government says the Indian companies have taken land on lease as per rules of the country concerned.

A slew of countries and investors — from Chinese state corporations to Gulf sheiks to Wall Street firms — have started buying up farmland overseas, in an apparent attempt to acquire as much precious soil and water as possible.

En définissant comme "intérêt national" ou "bien national" des projets de développement liés à la terre, qui ne respectent pas la notion du droit au développement, qui génèrent des migrations et aboutissent à des violations inextricables des droits fondamentaux de la population et des communautés locales, les Etats abusent du pouvoir qui leur est octroyé aussi bien par la communauté nationale qu’internationale.

Des paysans éthiopiens, chassés de leurs terres au profit de grands projets agricoles, attaquent en justice la Coopération au développement britannique.

A day-long conference will be held on Feb. 6, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi to deliberate on the ongoing land takeover in India and in African countries like Ethiopia by Indian companies.

A 'villagisation' programme that has been linked to the leasing of large tracts of land for commercial agriculture has left people from Ethiopia's Gambella region bereft of land and loved ones, casting donor support in an unflattering light

L’Inde, autre puissante émergente, a elle-aussi pigé l’aubaine des appels du pied de Zenawi. Mais plutôt que de miser sur la production manufacturière où il est difficile de concurrencer l’atelier chinois, New Delhi s’est rabattu sur le gâteau agricole.

Rulli and colleagues estimate that global land grabbing is associated with the grabbing of 308 billion m3 of green water (i.e. rain water) and an additional grabbing of blue water that can range from 11 billion m3 (current irrigation practices) to 146 billion m3 (maximal irrigation) per year. To put these numbers in perspective, the average daily household consumption of water in the UK is 150 liters (0.15 m3) per person.

Sudan launched a major dam project on Tuesday to boost power supply and agricultural irrigation, a plan officials hope will foster farmland exports and attract more Gulf investment to the African country as it battles an economic crisis.

As land and water become scarce, as the earth’s temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging, writes Lester Brown

Wealthy Gulf Arab companies are boosting their investment in Africa's vast lands and untapped resources, marking a shift for investors who have traditionally directed their money towards assets in the United States and Europe.