Of the countries that lost the highest percentages of their cultivated land to land grabs, nine out of 10 have malnourishment rates of 5 percent or more.

Could a recent farm workers dispute in, De Doorns, a wine region in the Western Cape in South Africa, become the agriculture equivalent of the Lonmin's platinum mine dispute?

Romanian authorities have a history of giving up fertile agricultural land to foreign companies or Romanian “fat-cats”, all to the detriment of small scale, diverse, economically sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture.

Of the $4.2 billion that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invested in agribusiness and forestry in the same period, just three investments – or 2 percent – had any component related to land acquisition.

Cambodia is in the grips of a prolonged land grabbing crisis, a slow-motion calamity that has seen over 2.1 million hectares of land – roughly the total area of Wales – transferred mostly from subsistence farmers into the hands of industrial agriculture firms.

Land is the missing element at next month's big UN sustainable development summit known as Rio+20, where nations of the world will meet June 20-22 with the goal of setting a new course to ensure the survival and flourishing of humanity.

The countries say that they now believe their farmers are not yet ready to compete on a free land market with foreign investors

The report outlines elements of a Global New Deal including developing principles for responsible agricultural investment.

Report calls for international community to enact reforms aimed at reducing financial speculation on commodities markets, limiting the further expansion of crops and land dedicated to biofuels, and halting “land grabs”.

Foreigners currently have more than 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania, representing 8.5 percent of the arable land of the country, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Karuturi Global Ltd. is to construct embankments around 25,000ha of farmland, half the size of Addis Abeba, in Gambela, at a cost of US$15 million, following its report of a loss of US$15 million due to flooding.

Today as the first ever G-20 agriculture meeting starts in Paris, the Bureau is launching a series of investigations into the role played by financial investors in commodity and food markets, focusing on the rising involvement of private equity in buying land around the world and its new food frontier, fish farming.

Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.

There is something amazingly patronising in the way Payne claims that Emergent has ‘adopted’ a Mozambican village of 3,000 people and hired its citizens to clear 2,000 acres of land to farm it with her firm.

Special issue on the Pakistani government's plans to dole out domestic farmlands to the Gulf countries on 99-year lease for corporate farming.

Water is the new gold, and a few savvy countries and companies are already banking on it.

When violence erupted in the island nation of Madagascar two weeks ago, few would have guessed that South Korean conglomerate Daewoo Logistics was partly to blame.

An expected call from Goldman Sachs could change 59-year-old pig farmer, Zou Changkui's (who resides in the southern Chinese city of Longyan) life forever.

On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton project, Uzbekistan. In 2019, a presidential decree allocating 50,000 hectares of land to Indorama Agro resulted in the arbitrary termination of thousands of farmers’ land leases without free, prior and informed consent.

The company Sequoia has obtained a lease over 60,000 hectares for a eucalyptus monoculture project in the Haut-Ogooué province, Gabon. but statements from communities and a survey of more than 1,400 people from the impacted region reveal a total rejection of this plantation project.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will add 46 farms covering 41,554 acres — or about 65 square miles — in eight US states to its vast portfolio, further bolstering its standing as an agricultural “titan.”

The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.

Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

The world's biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farmed on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.

A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.

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

SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.

the story of a women group in Kalimantan called “Hurung Hapakat”, which means “Working Together”. Collectively, and against serious repression, they have reclaimed some land from oil palm plantations in order to also reclaim their food sovereignty, dignity and wisdom. And they are not alone.

The new law gives foreign investors equal rights to land as ordinary Malagasy, some who are still demanding the return of ancestral lands seized by the French in the 19th century.