KMP says the 30,000 hectares of land to be leased to Honk Kong-based company “spells land-grabbing” to Davao Oriental farmers.

Farmers in four African countries, whose land, lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the expansion of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions at the group's general shareholders’ meeting.

The scale and pace of the large scale acquisition of land — or land grabbing — in the developing world in the last decade is unprecedented and is having disastrous consequences for the world’s poor.

A Chinese company isn’t buying Smithfield. A shell company based in Cayman Islands is. Instead of a story about “China buying up the world”, this turns out to be a story of a precarious leveraged buyout deal by some large global private equity firms looking to borrow their way to a fortune.

Farmers in Mozambique are calling on the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique to halt a project aimed at supporting agricultural development there, saying it will result in land grabs.

An ex-Wall Street banker jets off to South Sudan to show how investors are rushing to Africa in a modern-day land-grab. Watch Al Jazeera 'Witness'.

Mozambican peasants union and large number of national and international groups call on heads of state of Mozambique, Japan and Brazil to immediately suspend the ProSavana agribusiness project.

DFID documents reveal that, despite denials of funding forced relocations, British cash pays salaries of officials implementing the Ethiopian government's 'villagisation' programme.

Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups

The seeds of the next conflict are not diamonds but something far more valuable to local people - farmland.

A private initiative, Stallion Group, has indicated its readiness to invest in rice production in Edo State, just as the state government assured it of a conducive environment.

Karuturi Global faces accusations of causing floods to local villages, not paying taxes, contributing to human rights violations and providing dismal working conditions at its farming operations in Gambela, Ethiopia.

Groups strongly reject and condemn the G8’s proposed transparency initiative.

Africa is white hot with minerals and land deals in what could be the second scramble for Africa.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people. Most people think these demographic projections, like most of those made over the last half-century, will in fact materialize. But this is unlikely, given the difficulties in expanding the food supply, such as those posed by spreading water shortages and global warming. We are fast outgrowing the earth’s capacity to sustain our increasing numbers.

A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.

Africa’s primary food security systems are at threat from the process of relentless land degradation, dispossession, privatisation and large scale land grabs.

African lawmakers have resolved to strengthen existing laws at the national and regional level to prevent fraudulent land deals on the continent

Recueil de témoignages des victimes du projet Senhuile-Senéthanol dans les villages de Ndiaël, au Sénégal.

Kenana, which is mainly owned by the governments of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is aiming to more than double its annual sugar output to 1 million tonnes by 2015 as the firm seeks new export markets

Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion

The following is a statement from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).

A new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network shows that land grabbing and access to land are a critical issues today in Europe.

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Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.

"The World Bank has launched a consultative process with all stakeholders to review and update our environmental and social safeguards policies, which will be informed by the VGs. Land acquisition is a part of this conversation."

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi feels a growing sense of unease these days. It stems from an email that Karuturi received on March 7. The sender wrote he had lost Rs 7 lakh by investing in Karuturi Global Ltd's shares.

The World Bank formally reiterates its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.

China's ambassador says New Zealand has "over thought" his country's interest in acquiring land here, claiming other major farm purchases are unlikely.

We call for a mass mobilisation to stop the landgrab and support local peasants struggles.