New report by GRAIN shows how Saudi businessmen are pursuing deals in Africa that would give them control over some of the continent's most productive farmlands.

“I got in on the ground floor, others got in on the second floor, but there’s a lot of floors left to go in Africa’s economic cycle,” says farmland investor Sai Karuturi.

Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.

Standard Bank Plc has affirmed its commitment to finance agriculture in Africa over a long term because Africa has vast stretch of arable lands. Additionally, the bank intends to improve food security and eliminate hunger in the world.

"Without significant road improvements, it is unlikely that the ADA rice will reach markets in Maryland, River Gee, or Grand Kru and Liberia will continue with an insecure food supply."

A look at land grabbing in Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea with a particular focus on pastoral and peasant farming communities, by Dr. Zeremariam Fre

New code of conduct could limit aggressive moves by China, South Korea and Gulf states who have been buying vast tracts of agricultural land

Africa could be the breadbasket for the GCC, providing valuable water and food supplies to the entire region, a Bahraini expert claimed yesterday.

"Only 12 percent of Mozambique's arable land is under cultivation. Mozambique's agriculture minister is actively courting international agricultural investment," reports the US Embassy in Maputo

One of the most lucrative ways to monetize forest protection is to sell carbon credits. The company Belterra is pursuing that in negotiations with Amazon to implement 10,000 hectares of agroforestry.

Nigeria's Niger State has promised to make available 1.2 million hectares of land for use as the Federal Government secures a $2.5B livestock investment with Brazil's JBS, one of the world’s largest meat processing enterprises.

The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize

Investigation reveals how SIAT Nigeria Limited is grabbing host communities' lands and paying them three times less then what local farmers typically pay to neighbouring villages to rent small plots of land for a season.

Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.

Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.

While the ICC has no jurisdiction to prosecute companies, individual company executives can in principle be investigated in connection with corporate complicity in land-grabbing.

The National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with Caritas Ghana and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Development has launched a joint report on ‘land grabbing’ in Ghana.

Civil society organizations demand to stop land grabbing by the agro-industrial company Socfin and to protect the human rights of the communities.

"We believe this was a tactic to get us into prison so that we cannot raise our voice on the unacceptable land deals in Malen Chiefdom."

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.

Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development says his Ministry is working actively with state governments to secure land for genuine investors to address the issue of access to land.

In order to meet the increasing flow of investment in the horticulture sector, the government has identified five corridors consisting of 50,000 hectares of land.

This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure

New report from Oakland Institute looks at private equity funds betting heavily on agriculture

The article suggests the need to render the government a custodian (and not owner) of land in conformity with the FDRE Constitution

The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.

Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is leading a push to get Arabs to invest in Australian farmland as part of a long term food security strategy for oil-rich Gulf States

The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch shows how land grabbing aggravates hunger in Africa, Asia and Latin America by leading to eviction of peasant communities from their main source of livelihood.

A UAE company is seeking a 98-year lease on vast tracts of farmland in Tanzania to grow rice in order to secure food supplies for the Gulf countries.

US embassy in Kuwait reports on discussions with Kuwaiti officials on acquiring farmland overseas for food security or profit