Human Rights Watch says that foreign-owned commercial farms were looted and destroyed near Debre Zeit, 50 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa, as protests against a mega development project continue in Ethiopia.

About 1 million hectares of lands in Sierra Leone are presently in the hands of multinational companies, says Green Scenery.

Parallel to the climate conference in Paris, social movements and allies within the ‘Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles’ discuss climate justice and real solutions to the climate crisis.

Emirati investors have agreed to invest up to 37 million euros on six agriculture projects in Morocco.

Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.

An agricultural investment advisor predicts international companies wanting to buy Australian farmland could be scared off by changes to the threshold for scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Review Board.

One Thousand & One Voices (1K1V) — a US-based private capital fund backed by some influential family investors — is on the hunt for opportunities in the sub-Saharan Africa agricultural sector.

The Economic Community for West African States has agreed to provide the Foundation for African Development Aid US$25 million to revamp a rice project originally financed by the Libyan African Investment Portfolio.

Global Witness says Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages.

Despite their due diligence, Rabobank missed the fact that they were buying land in a village racked with corruption and land rights abuse, and from sellers deeply involved in murky business.

Already, investors in Brazil, Guyana's neighbour to the south and south west, have indicated their willingness to invest in the intermediate and Rupununi savannahs.

Investigation finds Rabobank acquired farmlands in Romania that had been sold without the knowledge or consent of the farmer owners.

About a hundred farmers and indigenous peoples voiced out their opposition to the expansion of oil palm plantations in Philippines with nine companies from Malaysia and Indonesia, have signaled their intention to invest in Mindanao.

The level of Chinese investment in the Australian beef supply chain appears certain to increase as China hunts for new food sources to feed its one and half billion citizens. Nine Chinese companies have outlaid almost $430 million on Australian beef cattle holdings and downstream red meat supply chain.

AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina proposed the creation of the agricultural corridors to attract investments into the rural areas of Africa in his address to the opening session of the 'Feeding Africa ' conference in Dakar

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.

One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta.

As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.

Governments in Asia implements Public and Private Partnership (PPP) projects which worsened landlessness and directly impacts Asian agriculture. Statement by APC on the occasion of the International Rural Women’s Day.

China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming.

Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.

Right now, Senhuile Inc is caught in a web of lawsuits.

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.

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

Platform SIF and Collective TANY call on citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure farmers and local communities rights on their lands.

In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land

A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.

Via Campesina says peasants are victims of human rights violations on every continent, though exclusion, land grabbing and repression of their leaders.