Fashion retailer has instructed its suppliers to ensure they do not use cotton from the Omo Valley, where there is an increased risk of land-grabbing - but admits it cannot provide an absolute guarantee.

Australia is the largest single beneficiary of rampant and unsustainable logging and land grabbing in Papua New Guinea, according to leading community activist group, ACT NOW!

Large scale commercial land deals at Nuanetsi Ranch, Chisumbanje and Chiadzwa are mired in corruption and end up impacting on livelihoods of communities.

Land prices in eastern Germany are rising at dizzying rates and local farmers feel they are being squeezed out by foreign investors in a phenomenon known as "land grabbing".

On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.

Large multinational corporations are swooping into Laos to acquire the land — or the rights to the resources that the land holds — from the local, regional and national governments.

Managing director of SABMiller Africa says Africa needs both large-scale commercial farming and smallholders and calls for "a fair and enforceable system" of land rights

“Buyers are interested in large surfaces located in a single region with as high a consolidation level as possible, with access to the water supply and irrigation infrastructure"

About 40 ethnic activist groups are calling on the government, ethnic militias and the international community to address a surge in land-grabbing, as companies move into Burma’s ethnic regions following recent ceasefire agreements.

Land conflicts are causing delays in Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum's oil palm plantation plans in Liberia.

The acquisition takes to 422,000 hectares the area which Kernel controls in the Ukraine – an area bigger than Luxembourg or most UK counties.

Leery of product safety in China, Zhu Zhangjin is urging farmers to invest abroad like he has

The New Zealand government will set up a NZ$6 million model dairy farm in Burma/Myanmar, Prime Minister John Key says.

Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.

Food shortages and rural deprivation exacerbated by World Bank policy, says NGO ahead of land and poverty conference

Largest cut flower exporter Karuturi Global ventures into food business

The Australian Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony Abbott's failure to rein in National Party ''freelancing'' on sensitive economic issues.

The Sudanese finance and national economy minister Ali Mahmood Abdel-Rasool said that his government welcomes an initiative by Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz to work towards Arab food security through the implementation of major economic projects in Sudan.

Saudi Star has begun rice cultivation on 10,000ha of land in Gambella and a 10,000ha irrigation project along the already-compromised Alwero River. Only grain that does not meet export requirements will be sold locally.

A survey shows New Zealanders are overwhelmingly opposed to foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland – but three weeks out from the election there is no sign the main political parties will make a fight of defending our turf.

Tanzanian peasaants complain that the government has been allocating huge tracts of land to certain investors in the district, while refusing to allocate the same pieces of land to local groups that had applied for them.

There is a lot of focus on the growing global population and what it means for food demand. One result sees investors taking notice of returns on resources that provide food, including farmland.

Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.

Unfortunately, given the global nature of capital, even if the US were to completely shut down speculation, it would just move offshore.

Foreign-investor purchases of farmland in poorer nations are displacing local populations and adding little to a country’s wealth, even as agricultural prices increase, according to Oxfam International.

Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems.

Moise Katumbi, governor of mineral-rich Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has offered 14 million hectares of farmland to large-scale farmers to boost agriculture.

President says a Gulf State company is expected to invest $80-100 million in the country's agriculture in the near future, citing a 400,000 ha rice project.

Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.

Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.