The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the past year with treble the number of land rights defenders killed, according to a human rights group that fears the violence will get even worse.

A joint team drawn from both Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia will be established to carry out feasibility study and come up with investment ideas in the sector.

For several years in the Omo Valley numerous companies have operated to carry out various mega agro-industrial projects. New report examines how all these activities are undermining the Valley communities’ access to land and the role of Italian cooperation.

Is land-grabbing over, in Mozambique and across Africa and the rest of the developing world? Now that crop and food prices have returned to their usual punishingly low levels, is the pressure off from foreign buyers looking to acquire large tracts of agricultural lands?

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

The Ethiopian government’s push to lease large swaths of land to foreign investors and private interests has fueled unbridled corruption and displaced thousands of people.

People from Oromiya, a region at the heart of Ethiopia's industrialisation efforts, accuse the state of seizing their land and offering tiny compensation, before selling it on to companies, often foreign investors, at inflated prices.

After nearly a year of protests, demonstrators in Ethiopia turned their anger to foreign investors who they blame for occupying land appropriated by the government.

Lorenzo Cotula discusses highlights from his latest academic piece, in which he explores whether investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals, and how these impact the land rights of rural people.

Anywaa Survival Organisation is greatly concerned about the worsening security situation in Ethiopia and the government's criminalisation of food security, land and human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents.

After food costs spike, Saudis spent billions buying up farm land around the world. Who benefits exactly and can the spree continue?

Activists from six countries as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples joined a recent Terra Madre Forum on land grabbing, “Take Your Hands Off The Earth”.

Report exposes how authoritarian development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and marginalized the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

A l'origine de la colère du peuple Oromo, un accaparement de leurs terres par l'état qui ensuite les revend à des multinationales

A Dutch-run flower farm in northern Ethiopia was among a series of foreign-owned plantations attacked by anti-government protesters as unrest in the country spreads.

EU Ambassador to Ethiopia responds to criticism of EU's joint project with Ethiopia to facilitate large-scale farmland investments.

Le Plan de développement intégré d'Addis Abeba est temporairement suspendu, mais les Oromos sont persuadés que la politique d'expropriation et de déplacement des populations oromos va se poursuivre

Unrest flared in Oromiya for several months until early this year over plans to allocate farmland surrounding the regional capital for development.

Whatever the merits, the extent or indeed the truth of the Great Arab Land Grab, it is now more or less history.

To Karuturi, who has also offered to grow up to one million tonne of lentils for India on farm tracts leased in Ethiopia, the Mozambique model is an example of "political correctness."

Opponents of the Ethiopian government’s policies have faced violence, but the EU has continued to provide funding for its commercial land deal projects.

Today, the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources with support from the European Union and Germany launched a 3.8 million euro project to support responsible agricultural investment in Ethiopia.

Saudis have been urged to invest in land and water resources overseas, but now face an immense water crisis

Une initiative internationale jetant la lumière sur l’ensemble de ces transactions est désormais un impératif autant qu’un préalable pour protéger cette agriculture que nous avons plus que jamais en partage

Turkey plans to lease farmlands in African countries as thousands of its own farmers have gone out of business amid decreased government support and an aggressive construction drive swallowing arable lands.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will support Ethiopia to develop its water resources by enhancing its agriculture systems.

New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”

Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".

"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International.

India’s plan to lease farm land in Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi to grow pulses for domestic consumers is not the first such project