Chinese investors are buying up macadamia orchards in Queensland and New South Wales to protect their own supply

Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.

The EcoEnergy project was announced in 2011, with those to be displaced told they could expect compensation within 18 months. It has stalled, hamstrung by red tape and legal delays.

Conference highlights the state of land grabbing in Africa, cases of resistance across the continent, as well as Church responses and its increasing engagement on issues of land grabbing.

Oakland Institute founder Anuradha Mittal profiles the heroic, dangerous work of Global South land rights activists like Nasako Besingi and Pastor Omot Agwa, who face violence and terror charges from hostile governments.

A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security

DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of the vertically integrated Ayenouan palm oil project in Côte d'Ivoire, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in West Ghana.

Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.

Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests.

“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.

The UN's Economic Commission, Germany's BMZ and the World Bank signed a Declaration of Intent to establish a new Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa to better secure land rights across Africa.

Norfund, the UK aid department, and Capricorn are funding the British company Agrica’s industrial rice plantation in Tanzania, which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Investigations reveal that 1,300 people are at risk of losing their land to make way for a sugarcane plantation, which is a flagship project of the G7’s initiative to increase agricultural investment in Africa.

500,000 people in northern Mozambique will be severely affected if the country's Council of Ministers approves the Lúrio River Valley Development Project (DVRL).

Those keen to see an end to years of environmental destruction and see genuine change in the behavior of major palm oil producers and suppliers feel there is still a lot to be mistrusting of.

New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement policy carried out in a political climate of torture, oppression and silencing.

As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.

An Oxford University boxing blue, a former Shell chairman, and an ex-SAS commanding officer are looking to raise $26.6m to build the biggest food company in Ebola-scarred Sierra Leone.

On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.

Government-led land deals, micro financing options by regional banks and favourable tax regimes are among the factors contributing to making Africa the new frontier for palm oil plantations.

Tunisia is interested in partnering up with Brazil for agribusiness, according to the CEO of the Arab country’s Agency for Agricultural Investment Promotion.

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe says there will also be compulsory declaration of land holdings by the propertied class

Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments

Earlier this year, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an unexpected commitment related to foreign investment in land and community land rights.

Small-holder farmers hold key to Africa's food security, but are often excluded from debates on agricultural investments.

Palm oil company, Goldtree, has recently committed $18.3 million to expanding its existing operations in the Kailahun district of Sierra Leone.

Land grabs in the developing world create a system so unequal that resource-rich countries become resource dependent.

Investment Corp. of Dubai in tie-up with Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote that "could run into billions of dollars" and involves ventures in agriculture.

The Partnership League for Africa’s Development presents the STOP Africa Land Grab Concert to bring awareness to the on-going massive land acquisition in Africa by foreign investors.

Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.