Mozambique’s rural communities remain on high alert, even as they successfully repel many of the largest land grabs.

In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shape.

Cables obtained by the non-profit Oakland Institute through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that U.S. government officials pushed Cameroon to approve a deeply controversial oil palm development owned by Herakles Farms.

There has been growing evidence that forest land grabbing by both individuals as well as a powerful alliance of international corporations and government officials is one of the major factors currently driving this loss of forest cover.

manadas de consumidLas Zidres son una política que favorece a los promotores de megaproyectos agroindustriales, que promoverán empresas con alta intensidad de capital, poco empleo de mano de obra, y convertirán el campo en una despensa para la producción masiva.

The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.

Noble Group Ltd said on Tuesday it would sell its remaining 49 percent stake in its agribusiness to China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd

As with previous moments of enclosure and commercialisation, Africa’s recent land rush is already sparking resistance and counter-movements.

"We have a decent pipeline of anything between 200 and 400 million dollars in opportunities in Africa," says Craig Chambers, Old Mutual Investment Group’s Director of Strategic Projects.

"There will be concerns about agriculture investment unless land ownership is opened to foreign investors,' says the OECD's Jan Rielander.

NO PALM (Network Opposed to Oil Palm Plantations) established during National Oil Palm Conference held in Davao City on May 9-10 serve as a platform and stepping stone for a broad and strong mass movement against rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the Philippines.

NGOs launch collective call for revamp of World Bank’s private sector arm amid accusations it has ‘lost control of the way money is spent’ and is funding land grabs in Honduras and Cambodia.

Homes of chimpanzees destroyed by agribusiness companies – many foreign-owned – who are clearing vast tracts of rainforest throughout west and central Africa to make way for plantations producing palm oil, rubber and other commodities.

For Africa’s agriculture to realize its full potential the continent’s governments need to rethink their approach to encouraging investment, Morocco’s Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch says.

FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"

This pan-African parliamentarian campaign against land grabbing by investors from developed countries is the brainchild of Mr Sisa Njikelana, former member of the South African Parliament

Farmland investments are outperforming stocks and investors are noticing, says Ding Xuedong, CEO of the China Investment Corporation

Former Nigerian president and notorious land grabber Olusegun Obasanjo and UK rock star Bob Geldof say "Africa needs large, commercial farms as well as small ones."

Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)

The UK is the fourth largest investor in the world in African land - but how much does it have and what is it using it for?

A new report claims that European demand for biofuels is not to blame for land acquisitions in poorer countries. But evidence suggests that the issue is more complex than the biofuels industry would like us to believe.

Indigenous communities have claims to nearly one third of all land granted in commercial land concessions in 12 countries analyzed by a new report.

Bajo Aguán, a fertile agricultural region in the north of Honduras, might at first glance look like paradise. But in fact, it is part of a historic land struggle and the site of a an undeclared and largely invisible war, where only one side has arms.

FORMER Macarthur Coal chairman Keith De Lacy is backing the potential $100 million float of a beef cattle company, with expectations that offshore investors will support the company's initial public offer.

Os signatárias desta Carta Aberta dirigem-se à chefes de Governo de Moçambique, Brasil e Japão para requerer que mandem tomar todas as medidas necessárias para suspensão imediata de todas as acções e projectos em curso nas savanas tropicais do Corredor de Nacala.

Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale spoke with campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran to discuss why it is such an important issue.

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.

In an effort to help tackle food security, officials yesterday agreed to double the capital of the Arab Authority for Agriculture Investment and Development, a multilateral lender aimed at promoting investment in agriculture.

Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.

The potential for bottom-line financial damage from insecure land tenure risk range from massively increased operating costs – as much as 29 times over a normal baseline scenario, according to our modeling – to outright abandonment of an up-and-running operation.