Companies from countries across the world have acquired fertile Nile-irrigated land for growing food crops, non-food agricultural commodities such as alfalfa, flowers, tobacco, and biofuels, rearing livestock and logging trees.

There's been considerable disquiet over the presence of foreign buyers in the farmland market place, but the stats on the extent of foreign ownership and the emerging trends are far from clear.

Devinder Sharma talks about landgrabbing in the context of the world food crisis on "Democracy Now!"

The real threat to our food security, according to researchers, is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors.

Cambodian banana exports to China have surged in recent years, but reports abound of exploitation and endangerment across Cambodia’s banana farms.

Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014

The IMF is said to be making the passage of a law to privatise farmland a condition for emergency assistance to Ukraine to help it cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.

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.

African and US firms announce an additional $7 bn in spending to promote ag development in Africa, even though “private interests do not always line up with foreign policy objectives,” such as when they purchase land, displacing villagers.

The sale of Cubbie Station to a Chinese-led consortium has divided Australia on the issue of foreign investment.

China’s giant sovereign wealth fund is looking to make its first significant investment in the Australian dairy industry, as it tries to lock up food ­supplies for its growing middle class.

Some pension funds are beginning to question their investments in commodities after accusations that massive flows into the sector have distorted markets, fuelled food inflation and hurt poor nations.

At least 24 countries have been given approval to invest in New Zealand's agricultural sector, covering 154,855ha and a wide range of sectors from sheep farming to viticulture

In Brazil, El Tejar and others are investing in ownership and hope to capture land appreciation. BrasilAgro brags that it sold one farm for a gain of 116 percent in just 17 months.

Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade.

Chinese companies are lining up to invest in African agriculture, but governments like Senegal must do more to limit the risks for investors, a veteran Chinese investor said.

Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.

Australia's agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has defended the government’s newly tightened foreign investment regime before key agricultural industry stakeholders.

A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.

Investigation reveals how SIAT Nigeria Limited is grabbing host communities' lands and paying them three times less then what local farmers typically pay to neighbouring villages to rent small plots of land for a season.

An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia across palm oil plantation in Malaysia and Indonesia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.

Aggrieved farmers in Ondo State protested over the alleged forceful takeover and destruction of their farmlands by SAO Agro-Allied Services Limited, a company owned by the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, in collaboration with the state government.

An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.

The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.

Banana plantations are raising local salaries but the chemicals used are poisoning rivers and land

Wrathall went to the the most remote and contested parts of north Western Australia to investigate stories of the forced closure of Aboriginal communities. What he found instead was a complex and complicated set of issues around the ways that huge mineral-rich region is being developed by government, big mining and big agriculture.

Students gathered in front of Harvard’s central administration to urge Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow to divest the University’s $39.2 billion endowment from farmland holdings around the world.

In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.

This report describes the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It covers the period of July 2014 to June 2015 when Addax was still operational as well as the period of July 2015 to June 2016 when Addax scaled down its operations.