Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

Zambia has allocated 20,000 hectares of land to large-scale farmers in Kenya to start growing maize which will be exported in the country.

« Nous exhortons les participants au Sommet de Dakar II à envisager des moyens d’arrêter les accaparements des terres des agriculteurs » martèlent 83 reseaux et organisations de la société civile

Assets up for grabs include a 70-hectare piece of land and greenhouses sitting on 26 hectares of land

Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.

À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à Rome, 280 groupes de 70 pays ont signé une lettre dénonçant leur financement de l'expansion de l'agriculture industrielle, de la destruction de l'environnement et du contrôle du système alimentaire par les entreprises.

Elara India Opportunities Fund, which Indian lawmakers suspect may be linked to Gautami Adani, was the largest foreign shareholder in Karuturi Global Ltd, owning 3.25% of the company in 2018.

In this short paper, we discuss the various ways in which scholars and activists of the global food economy/regime/system examine the relationships among producers, the state and capital.

As the recently published book The Transnational Land Rush in Africa – A Decade After the Spike reveals, vulnerable people were very much the losers.

Sahel Capital’s portfolio companies in Africa have cumulative 16,000 hectares of commercial farmland and aggregate additional crop from over 9,000 smallholder farmers.

An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.

Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk more than $1.8 billion into major livestock and factory farming companies across the world.

Phoenix Global - the Dubai-based agri-trader which directly farmed more than 150,000 hectares in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Uganda, Mozambique and India - is now in liquidation

The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.

This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and voices its silence on intellectual property rights.

Kilombero Plantation Ltd, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd. and “best in class” player in the field of socially responsible ag investments in Africa, is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions.

In our APRA study, we have been asking: what actually happens on the ground, even when corridors as originally planned are slow to materialise? Do the grand visions play out as expected? Who is involved and who loses out?

“Domestic resources from African countries have to be supplemented by European resources, and that has to mean the private sector,” says Tom Arnold, who chairs the European Commission and African Union's joint Rural Taskforce.

The Government of Bangladesh has decided to acquire land in Sudan in a bid to explore commercial farming opportunities in the Northeast African country.

An overview of land grabbing in Africa and Asia as lessons for Sri Lanka. In September 2016 the International Criminal Court called land grabs as a crime against humanity and this is an area that Sri Lanka’s lawyers are advised to further look into.

Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.

Naivasha-based flower firm Karuturi has sued Stanbic Bank and four receiver managers for allegedly thwarting its revival through mismanagement and secret acquisition of loans.

At the Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium land tenure was the primary issue that was repeatedly pointed to by members of the research, development and finance communities alike as the biggest risk for landscape investment.

A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.

The African Development Bank is nevertheless accelerating a push for projects such as the failed 80,000 hectare Bukanga Lonzo project in the DRC, for which it provided about $1 million to finance a feasibility study.

Research shows that the plantation model of development has failed to deliver promised benefits to Liberia’s rural people and that they benefit far more from retaining their traditional lands.

Dubai-based agriculture and food company Phoenix Group will invest in debt-laden Kenya operations of rose exporter Karuturi Global Ltd.

Action Against Hunger, CCFD-Terre Solidaire and Oxfam France welcome the French government's decision to withdraw from the widely denounced New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN)