Social movements and civil society organisations are invited to endorse this statement by Monday 1 June 2015.

The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.

The CEO of Cayman Islands-based United Cacao is looking to expand his agricultural plantations by acquiring 450 units of private property in the Amazon and 97,000 hs from the Peruvian government.

Investment in agricultural production and trade often harms the rights of local and indigenous peoples while failing to contribute significantly to economic development, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Institute.

Earlier this year, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an unexpected commitment related to foreign investment in land and community land rights.

The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary announce intention to convert eight million hectares of land to oil palm cultivation across the Philippines, including the island of Palawan. The announcement has proved controversial.

With the Economic Large-Scale Production (ELSP) model being implemented more frequently in Vietnam, more companies are looking to invest in agricultural production as it becomes more profitable and efficient.

"My particular case is not just to intimidate me, but to silence all further reports on [Karuturi] and his company's operations in Africa," Acharya told CPJ.

Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.

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

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

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

Las propuestas de la FAO o la OMC para enfrentarlo son como poner una tirita en una herida que sangra: no puede parar la hemorragia; transparente o no, sigue siendo acaparamiento de tierras.

Farmers remain the main buyer group as they seek to expand their existing acreage, followed by UK investors and private purchasers, including overseas buyers taking advantage of the current weakness of sterling

Farmland has become the darling of alternative investing, sending hedge funds and wealthy investors into bidding wars for plots of land once deemed ordinary. And it is not just big money getting in on the game. From Stockholm to Chicago to Vancouver, ordinary investor money is pouring into fields around the world.

Dutch pension funds say they will remain invested in Wilmar International due to their successful efforts to engage with the controversial palm-oil company accused by many of land grabbing

Groups strongly reject and condemn the G8’s proposed transparency initiative.

The Chinese government has long encouraged businesses to invest in agriculture abroad, and Xi Jinping's first foreign trip as president in the past week involved visits to three African countries.

Indian companies are among the biggest land holders in the African country through deals concluded in dubious circumstances

Almarai’s ownership of dairies, processing plants and a distribution system makes it more profitable than its peers. The operation’s earnings before interest and taxes margin is at least 30 percent bigger than Danone, Nestle and Savola.

Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.

Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.

The AgriSol investment is a good case in justifying that in Tanzania it is the state which grabs on behalf of the investors as opposed in other areas where land is acquired illegally.

This paper from TNI examines a range of positive alternative investments which strengthen the right to food, re-valorise agricultural work, and build up ecological capital.

Llamamiento común de mas de 60 organizaciones de la sociedad civil

Déclaration commune de plus de 60 organisations de la société civile

Do governments and parliaments in investor home countries have any responsibility in respect of the behaviour of their investors abroad? What should they and international regulators do, if anything?

Singaporean and other foreign traders are taking advantage of a loophole in Thai laws to purchase land suitable for paddy fields and starting up rice-trading houses in Thailand.

A pension fund(!) has seeded(!) a new company (i.e., not a fund!) that will invest its own assets as well as those of peers(!) in actual farms(!) in the developed and developing world!

With the purchase of nearly 15,000ha of land in Jerramungup last month, the Qatar-based Hassad Food Company now owns 250,000ha of farmland in Austalia