It may appear contradictory for the Japanese government to support aggressive investment in overseas land while seeking ways to restrict purchases by foreign interests at home.

Entebbe Declaration on Large Foreign Land Aquisitions

Foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets.

Les principes de la Banque mondiale, qui seraient totalement volontaires, visent à détourner notre attention du fait que la crise alimentaire actuelle, marquée par un milliard de personnes en manque de nourriture, ne sera pas resolue par l'agriculture industrielle à grande échelle, ce que toutes ces acquisitions foncières cherchent à promouvoir.

The UPA Government has deprived job opportunities to millions of illiterate and semi-literate Indians by forcing Indian companies to invest abroad in overseas plantations and coal mining sectors.

Deputy for agriculture and fisheries to the coordinating minister for economic affairs Bayu Krisnamurthi earlier said that the government had given a priority to a regulation pertaining to the development of food estates to support Indonesia`s food security. According to him, the economic affairs coordinating ministry was drafting a regulation, 90 percent of which had been completed.

Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to government projects that have seized their lands, fueled violence, and stripped them of their rights.

Major US farm groups are largely staying on the sidelines for now as lawmakers wrestle with constituents' concerns that China and other foreign interests are buying up US cropland and threatening the nation's food security.

In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.

Institutional investors and foreign countries alike increasingly see U.S. farmland as a sound investment, raising concerns.

Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. pension funds and an Argentine agribusiness giant may be linked to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.

The US Trade Representative has stated that restrictions in the Kenyan constitution banning foreign ownership of land are an investment barrier.

A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, is engaged in land grabbing, deforestation and killing of endangered elephant calf within its plantation

Stakeholders attending a two-day regional dialogue on oil palm development in West Africa have called for the inclusion of local communities in oil palm development in the sub-region.

Au Sénégal, tout se passe comme si les autorités qui semblaient pourtant être animées de bonnes intentions, ont réalisé qu’il faut maintenir le statu quo ante, au nom de l’agro-business, devenu trop profitable.

Today, certain legal arrangements are facilitating unsustainable resource extraction and shifting resource control in favour of commercial interests.

“No leasing land to China even for one day,” read a banner hoisted during the recent protests.

Au nombre de ses grandes victoires politiques, le lobby ruraliste est parvenu à faire adopter un projet de loi qui facilite la vente de terre à des étrangers.

In Tanzania, large scale investment is increasing and this has a huge impact on pastoralists’ access to land.

In a world fraught with major human rights violations, and significant constraints facing the ICC, what are the prospects of a prosecution for land grabbing or environmental destruction?

The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty

La privatisation des terres au profit des industriels majoritairement étrangers a des conséquences désastreuses : expulsion des paysans réduits à la mendicité pour vivre, exclusion, création d’une classe ouvrière rurale.

A large-scale agriculture project in Indonesia's southern Papua province has been relaunched, targeting 1.2 million hectares of indigenous land to develop rice farms over the next three years.

This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon.

Parliamentary committee orders Ministry of Lands to recover 3,000 hectares of land the latter had sold to a Swedish company - EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region.

19 843 hectares de terrain dans la région du Sud-Ouest du Cameroun ont été provisoirement concédés à la société Sithe Global Sustainaible Oil Cameroon Ltd, la filiale de l’américaine Herakles Farms, sur une durée de trois ans, pour la création d’une palmeraie d’un montant global de près de 260 milliards de FCfa

There's been considerable disquiet over the presence of foreign buyers in the farmland market place, but the stats on the extent of foreign ownership and the emerging trends are far from clear.

Ministers' Communiqué from the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture – Berlin, January 19th 2013