Ethiopia has forced at least 70,000 people off their land so it can lease fertile fields to foreign investors, a move that has left some locals starving in barren, remote villages.

No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.

Konstantin Grishchenko met with Saudi businessman Suleiman Al-Rajhi to explain his government's efforts to attract foreign investment by softening regulations, adding that it helps foreigners to own land in Ukraine.

An MOU targeting $1 billion in aquaculture investments in Mauritania was signed between the National Prawn Company of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, with Saudi-based Al Rajhi also involved.

Domestic and foreign investors are expected to grow sugar cane and other cash crops on a large-scale in the south of Ethiopia, an area known for its numerous indigenous tribes.

The conference reviewed the experience of Al-Rajihi International Group in Sudan and Al-Kharif Investment Company in the field of food production as well as the National Company for Agricultural Production in Sudan.

The most comprehensive study of large land acquisitions in developing countries to date published Wednesday online by the International Land Coalition (ILC) has found more evidence of harm than benefits.

The US-based AgriSol Company has landed another lucrative land deal involving 10,000 hectres amid growing public outcry about the recent land deals sealed by the company in Rukwa region.

Right now, on the desks of Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) there is the background material for an application of credit guarantee for an 8000 ha sugar plantation and a refinery in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.

The US-based AgriSol Company has landed another lucrative land deal involving 10,000 hectres amid growing public outcry about the recent land deals sealed by the company in Rukwa region.

Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.

The 19th century had the Great Scramble for Africa, when developed nations raced for several decades to lay claim to new territories and their riches. This century may yet be known as the Great Selloff of Africa.

Report from FIAN on the international conference against land grabbing which took place in Mali in November 2011

Peasant movements concur that in the absence of control over their lands, real food sovereignty is impossible.

More than 250 participants from thirty different countries gather in Mali for the first International farmers’ conference to stop land grabbing.

A fierce debate is currently taking place concerning huge tracts of Tanzanian land which U.S. investors are seeking to develop. Tens of thousands of former refugees now farm the land.

Minutes from the Karuturi Global Limited Q2 FY2012 results conference call.

In Africa, the strategy is to buy land. But in Argentina, they are forming associations that allow them to grow crops and guarantee food supplies for their population.

Two of the last big Australian-owned sugar mills, Maryborough and Proserpine, could soon be sold to foreign buyers in takeover deals worth more than $350 million.

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.

BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.

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.

Developers hover as 5 million hectares, and national pride, are signed away in 99-year leases that have raised fears of corruption.

A massive land grab is unfolding on the African continent, mired in secrecy and spearheaded by hedge funds, financial speculators and foreign companies. South Sudan has become one of the latest frontiers for these investors.

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.

Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.

The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi

Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.

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