In the past three days, peasants, pastoralists and indigenous peoples have come together from across the world for the first time to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land-grabbing.

Report says largescale foreign agri-investment offers 'few solutions to the poverty and hunger plaguing the country'

Since the financial and food crises of 2008, the World Bank Group has incentivized and facilitated land grabs in several countries in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia.

Bangladesh officials are in preliminary talks with Ukraine for wheat production, considering Cambodia for rice and visiting parts of sub-Saharan Africa to explore similar ventures.

Designated Drylands Ambassador for the UN's Convention for Combating Desertification says the concerns around land grabbing are valid and very serious.

The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) invites submissions for an international conference on large-scale agricultural investments on 11 May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.

Multinational corporations are buying enormous tracts of land in Africa, putting countries on the path to increased food insecurity, environmental degradation, increased reliance on aid and marginalisation of farming and pastoralist communities.

One of the manifestations of the greed of Africa's domestic plutocrats and their imperial overlords is the massive land grab that we are witnessing today.

The adoption by the UN Committee on World Food Security of international guidelines to regulate land grabs has been pushed to next year

Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.

Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.

In the face of growing economies and rising populations, food security is fast becoming a critical issue for GCC countries. Socio-political problems that arise from food price inflation and some related unrest witnessed in many countries of the Arab world have also created an added sense of urgency.

Elders has begun a sale of all its forestry plantations totalling 50,000ha across the country. Much of the land purchased is expected to be planted with sugar cane, bananas or returned to beef grazing, and COFCO and Wilmar International have indicated their interest.

Cofco Ltd., China’s largest grains trader, said it is seeking overseas acquisitions to help secure supplies of commodities including soybeans, wheat and sugar as rising domestic incomes spur faster food demand growth.

Governments and companies involved in leasing land claim it is little used and that the projects will bring food security, create jobs and boost tax revenues – none of which is true

The so-called “global land grab” continues the historic process of land enclosures described by Sir Thomas More in Utopia as “sheep eating men,” when English peasants were evicted from the commons to make room for private estates.

Millions of hectares of farmland are being sold or leased to foreigners to the detriment of farmers

Quelque 330 Mha de terres utilisés en 2004 pour satisfaire les besoins européens se situent hors de son territoire, soit 58 % des terres consommées par les Européens.

While certain provisions in contracts can contain sensitive commercial information that may require a level of confidentiality, it does not justify keeping all information about large-scale agricultural projects outside the public domain.

The flooding that breached specially built barriers near Karuturi’s plantations couldn’t have been predicted, Karuturi claims.

Panel of five men at the at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany discusses the problem of “land grabbing”.

onValues has released "The Responsible Investor's Guide to Commodities", a report aimed to help institutional investors navigate the environmental, social and governance challenges of commodities-related investments, including farmland.

This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.

At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.

The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines

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.

Preliminary research indicates as much as 227 million hectares - about the size of Western Europe - may have been sold, leased or licensed in large-scale land deals since 2001.

Land investments displace rural populations, often without any notice, and diminish their access to land, jobs, and food.

This 2011 trapca Trade Conference will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, on 24-25 November 2011

New research accuses the World Bank Group's policies of facilitating land grabs in Africa and favouring the interests of financial markets over food security and environmental protection.