There is an epidemic that grips Africa, says Father Aniedi Okure

As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. Some nations are gaining land by buying up property – and accompanying water resources – in other, generally less wealthy countries.

Food & Water Watch has joined Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement’s ethics complaint against Iowa Regent Bruce Rastetter for egregious conflict of interest involving a Tanzania land deal he brokered in partnership with Iowa State University.

Le 7 décembre 2011 à Yaoundé, des organisations de la société civile ont décidé de créer une coalition pour lutter contre l’accaparement des terres au Cameroun.

Australia’s richest person believes foreign ownership of Australian farmland should be capped at a maximum of 49 per cent to protect against breakdowns in international relations.

Al Jazeera investigates how land is being sold and people displaced to make way for agribusiness in Zambia, putting many Zambians at risk of becoming squatters on their own land.

La réforme foncière au Sénégal, une opportunité pour la mise en œuvre effective et durable des directives volontaires.

The New Zealand Government has signalled it is unlikely to change overseas investment rules to make it easier for land to be sold to foreigners.

The Moroccan government has pursued a strategy of leasing state-farms previously under the management of Société de Développement Agricole (SODEA). A large number of bids were made by agricultural businesses from France, Egypt, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.

Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.

UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.

This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.

Canada's federal government needs to convince the provinces to ban investors from buying the country’s agricultural land so farmers can use it to produce food, the National Farmers Union has urged.

Africa’s Catholic bishops have criticized the appropriation of land, natural resources and other economic assets by private companies and called on national governments to show greater concern for local community rights and needs.

Ce mois-ci dans le National Geographic France : La grande ruée vers les terres agricoles d’Afrique

Pour la Commission nationale de réforme foncière, il faut immatriculer toutes les terres du domaine national au nom de l'Etat. Pour la société civile, cela conduira à une marchandisation des terres.

Le Cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (Crafs) soutient mordicus que le domaine national, en particulier les terres à usage agricole, doivent rester un patrimoine national non cessible pour l’intérêt des communautés présentes et futur

The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.

180 citizens of Sierra Leone propose measures to combat land grabbing at the National Conference on Land and the Constitution in Freetown.

During the Nampula Conference, peasant leaders from all over Mozambique reiterated their repudiation of PROSAVANA, establishing a road map and resistance agenda of national scope.

BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.

Australians are entitled to test and scrutinise the benefits of foreign acquisitions to ensure they are in our national interest and, importantly, safeguard Australia’s role in global food security.

Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

Official implementation of the guidelines, via national governments, has started at a snail’s pace in only several countries, and monitoring systems are yet to be created.

Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha

Joint statement endorsed by 93 international, regional and national organizations to mark the “Day of the Landless”

The ProSavana coordination team, together with the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, has resorted to enticement and has set out to co-opt national civil society organisations.

The Treasurer said the size and location of the properties means selling them to a foreign buyer would be "contrary to the national interest", and the deal cannot go ahead.

NO PALM (Network Opposed to Oil Palm Plantations) established during National Oil Palm Conference held in Davao City on May 9-10 serve as a platform and stepping stone for a broad and strong mass movement against rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the Philippines.

Today, Fahamu Networks for Social Justice is hosting a national conference of social movements and other actors in Kenya to review the implementation process of the National Land Policy.