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

Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.

Farmers on Bugula Island, the second largest in Lake Victoria, are now locked in a legal battle with Bidco, which says it has not been involved in any land transactions.

The World Bank’s board has granted a massive agribusiness project in East Africa a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy—sparking fears that the development lender is making an end run to resurrect a policy that it abandoned in public.

"To attract more private sector investments, ACP countries need to adapt their policies and reinforce the capacity of their agribusinesses."

Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.

The World Bank’s board has granted an East African agribusiness project called SAGCOT a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy — sparking fears among human rights advocates that the development lender is setting a precedent that weakens protections for indigenous peoples.

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

Unless proactive steps are taken to enable women to have a stronger voice, large-scale agribusiness projects will leave them even more marginalised.

The government of India is looking at the possibility of leasing land in Mozambique to grow pulses.

Civil Society Organisations in Sierra Leone wish to let the public understand that a solution to the persistent conflict in Malen Chiefdom is needed.

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