There are countless examples of governments handing it over at bargain prices to foreign investors, ranging from hedge funds to biofuel producers.

A new survey of 223 asset managers, pension plans and pension consultants with combined assets of $13.4 trillion shows investor interest in farmland

US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals

The World Bank is discussing ways to counter land grabbing but critics have charged the organization with participating in land grabbing itself.

CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.

A look at recent mega land deals in Africa reveals a trend dubbed a ‘dangerous grab’ of the resource upon which the continent’s poor people depend for survival.

Can we minimize downsides and maximize benefits of transnational land investments?

Former Nigerian president and notorious land grabber Olusegun Obasanjo and UK rock star Bob Geldof say "Africa needs large, commercial farms as well as small ones."

There is growing interest from international investors in the New Zealand agricultural sector, particularly from wealthy Europeans, boutique funds manager Mint Asset Management says.

The CEO of Emirates Investments Group calls for investment "in agricultural land abroad or leasing land to a professional who can manage it more efficiently with better practices."

Pledges by African governments will make it easier for companies to do business through the easing of export controls and tax laws, and through governments ringfencing huge chunks of land for investment.

RRI says the overriding picture in 2013 remained one of continuing resource grabs by local elites and corporations, aided by governments eager to give away land to investors on almost any terms.

The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future, and are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist.

Only the Amazon and Congo basins rival Papua New Guinea for pristine tropical wilderness. But 5 million hectares of its jungle is under threat from foreign land grabs and back-door logging.

Forest clearance in the Congo basin from oil palm plantations and illegal logging has increased again since 2010 and the future is not rosy.

Chinese entrepreneurs are going global ahead of officials. Countries with developed agriculture such as the US, Australia, Chile and Argentina have become their prime destinations.

On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.

International and Honduran CSOs condemn the response of the International Finance Corporation to the highly critical findings of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman regarding the IFC’s investment in Corporación Dinant in Honduras

This year could see a surge in interest in farmland from investors with very little experience in this complicated asset class, reports Euromoney

Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.

The desert states of the Gulf are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security.

Japanese experts provide an analysis of the ProSavana project's concept note for the development of a large-scale agricultural project in Northern Mozambique.

PGGM manages an agriculture portfolio comprising around 300,000 hectares of purchased farmland in three major food-producing regions: Eastern Europe, Australia and South America.

African countries are also welcoming big agricultural projects bankrolled by foreign investors whose goal is to send food abroad.

Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)

Land grabbing is an expression of the dominant development model based on production and consumption patterns in which financial capital reigns.

Emerging regional powers’ in the South have produced powerful finance capitalists such as the Egyptian firm, Citadel Capital. Allied with global governance institutions, such firms represent greater control over vital resources and distribution routes for private wealth accumulation

Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil processor, is building a massive plantation on forest lands illegally gifted to Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The local community wants these lands back.

Wilmar says it will ensure that its own plantations and companies from which it sources only provide products that are “free from links to deforestation or abuse of human rights and local communities”.

Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, confirms that one of its funds has sold its shareholding in a Vietnamese company accused of rights abuses in Laos and Cambodia.