Both public and private sector investors in the Gulf are also looking at ways to improve local food supplies, by investing in a range of outlets from arable farm land in the Sudan, Algeria and Pakistan to introduce new technology to enhance the local production of foodstuffs and grains, livestock, poultry and fish.

Bahrain is inviting private companies to set up joint ventures to invest in farmland in Thailand.

In other African countries, including Ghana, South Africa and Togo, the China State Farm and Agribusiness Corporation (CSFAC) has founded 11 agricultural production, processing and sales projects, and runs a total of 16,000 hectares of farmlands

Rural sociologist Saker El Nour discusses the complex power dynamics between main actors within land reclamation projects in Egypt.

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.

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.

Director General of UNIDO: says land acquisition through foreign investors must be carefully considered and strictly scrutinized.

Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.

Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.

As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.

Quand on interroge les communautés rurales du pays sur leurs difficultés, c’est le manque de terre qui est cité en premier. Et les politiques menées par le gouvernement n’arrangent rien !

La REVATED a porté plainte contre Frank Timis, les sociétés Senhuile et Les Fermes de la Téranga et Gora Seck pour fraude, corruption et cession nébuleuse de 20 0000 ha

« Il veut investir dans le secteur de l’agriculture. Il ne s’agit absolument pas d’acquérir des milliers d’hectares pour y faire nous-même des cultures, mais de fournir un appui technique et financier aux agriculteurs locaux, dans le respect des meilleures pratiques »

Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes

Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.

Le président de la Mauritanie annule l'octroi de 3 200 ha à l'AAAID (contrat de 2015) et prone à sa place des contrats tripartites Etat-investisseurs-populations

Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.

Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.

Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment due to sufficient land and cheap labour. As traditional laws that once protected village land weaken, indigenous communities and farmers have repeatedly lost chunks of land facilitated by foreign investors.

Lutte contre le changement climatique, l’évasion fiscale ou encore l’accaparement des terres : autant de réformes censurées, vidées de leur substance ou avortées ces dernières années en France. Le rôle des lobbies là-dedans ?

In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands ­– often held without deed by traditional communities ­– with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.

A new book published in Japan says China is buying up land, including farmland, in the northern prefecture and turning the island into a province of its own

The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted

Companies are betting that global appetites will increasingly rely on Black Sea soil even as obstacles to growth remain.

The ProSAVANA program intentionally weakens and creates division among peasants while there is an increased risk of even more peasants losing their land.

Le gouvernement cherche à remettre à plat le registre national du foncier et le cadre juridique dont les investisseurs ont besoin pour financer le secteur agricole

Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.

Nasako Besingi of the NGO Struggle to Economize our Future Environment (SEFE) was sentenced today for defamation by the SGSOC Company, a subsidiary of Herakles Farms of the US.

Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.