Across the globe, governments and investors from wealthy nations are buying up foreign farmland to support domestic food security.

Friends of the Earth and As You Sow are circulating a letter to TIAA clients calling on the firm to disclose information about all of its investments in companies with farmland and palm oil operations, and to commit to a deforestation- and land grab-free investment policy.

The agriculture industry is piquing the interest of investors around the world, according to an investment strategy expert.

The people of the Sinthiou Thirmoy village in Senegal are protesting against the British firm Société de Culture Légumière, accusing it of land grabbing.

Bidco Africa supported the highly controversial purchase of land in Kampala, Uganda, a UN probe has found. The finding draws the Kenyan-owned edible oils manufacturer to the centre of eviction claims by peasant farmers who are fighting the firm in court.

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.

A project for the planting, processing and marketing of sugarcane, involving a 20,000 ha plantation, will be implemented in the northern Bengo province, in a partnership between Angolans and Chinese

Alif Oil Trading Co. is looking for 128,000 hectares of land in Agusan del Sur to establish oil palm plantations

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

Langkat Nusantara Kepong, a Malaysian plantation company, unleashes brutal attack on peasants in Mekar Jaya Village in Indonesia to appropriate nearly 554 hecatres of land

Embattled Ugandan farmers fighting threats and land grabbing by Bidco have praised a draft report by UN investigators that calls into question the company’s business practices.

The notorious reluctance of Australian superannuation funds to invest in agriculture because of perceptions it is too risky, volatile and low-return may be slowly changing, according to key farm and food industry players.