Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away

Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade.

Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations

On October 15 2009, the Lok Sanjh Foundation and the Pakistan Dehqan Assembly organized a conference on rice and the food crisis, focusing on small farmer livelihoods. More than 600 farmers, tenants, landless workers and partner organizations from different parts of the Sheikhupura region participated in the event.

American drone attacks against the Taliban are routinely condemned in Pakistan as violations of national sovereignty. But there is little criticism of how our own government is threatening the country's territorial integrity by engineering the lease of millions of acres to foreign investors.

Whilst Mali’s government declares its commitment to guaranteeing food self-sufficiency for the country, it continues to sign a worrying number of agreements with foreign investors. A report from Via Campesina.

A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs

One of the objectives of the caravan is to send the Asian peasants’ strong message against global land grabbing and inspire other peasants worldwide.

The left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pamalakaya and staunch ally KMP on Thursday exposed what they called a secret agricultural pact between the Philippines and Bahrain.

Singapore's Temasek is seeking to buy land in North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, where they plan to grow high-quality rice.

Contract farming deal between the Indian corporation Varun Agriculture and 13 association in Sofia, Madagascar (January 2009)

"In a wide-ranging conversation, Sudanese business magnate Osama Daoud outlined a project to gradually develop as much as 1.26 million acres in northern Sudan for agricultural production," reports the US Embassy in Khartoum

Chorng indigenous community, who live around Cardamom Mountain National Park in Koh Kong province, Cambodia, experienced difficulties obtaining forest products or practicing rotational farming near their village as they have been informed that those areas are in the REDD+ zone, although there was no clear boundary.

A private equity farming giant with more than 1,500 acres of land in Fresno and Tulare counties and 8,600 acres statewide has declared bankruptcy.

Australia-based specialist private markets investment manager Roc Partners is to acquire 25% of the portfolio of rural land assets of New Zealand Rural Land Company for about $44 million.

The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.

A High Court in Pakistan resumed hearing a petition against the grant of large swathes of public land in Punjab to the military for “corporate agricultural farming”, under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.

Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.

Government says it will not give company a concession for an additional 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province, in accordance with a 2012 government decision.

The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs

The company is currently scaling up sugar cane planting with the target to reach about 3000 hectares of cane harvest by January 2025, of the 78,000 hectares of land acquired by Dangote Industries Limited.

Nearly 150 murders and disappearances in connection with land conflicts have convulsed the Aguan Valley since 2008, when violence first intensified there.

Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia

In Kenya, a row is brewing between local leaders, members of the community, and Siaya county government following a notice to allocate land within Yala Swamp to a new investor, Lake Agro Limited.

With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda, poor families continue to be forced off their land by their government and investors despite several directives halting evictions during the COVID period.

Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.

123 ex-laborers from the Japanese-owned Furukawa Plantaciones C.A. company – operating 30 plantations on than 2,300 hectares in Ecuador – went before a local judge who ruled their rights had been violated.

David Del Curto, S.A. is a leading Chilean fruit production, packing and export company, which produces over ten different fruit types across eleven farms, while also managing one of the largest nurseries in the country.

DAL’s $225m greenfield project in Abu Hamad — a joint venture with the Royal Group of Abu Dhabi and about 10km from the banks of the Nile — is watered by 18km of canals drawing water from the world’s longest river.