AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina proposed the creation of the agricultural corridors to attract investments into the rural areas of Africa in his address to the opening session of the 'Feeding Africa ' conference in Dakar

A new video by LifeMosaic, part of the series “Territories of Life“, looks at the impacts of the enormous land grab affecting indigenous peoples around the world.

The government of Saskatchewan has tightened its already stringent land ownership rules, prohibiting out pension funds and any business with any overseas-issued debt on its books, from owning land.

400 landless families occupied the Sol Agricola Farm, owned by Chongqing Grain Group and located in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state.

A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security

Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart has introduced amendments to Saskatchewan’s farm security legislation that will make pension plans and their administrators ineligible from owning farmland in the province.

L’Association des femmes rurales de la commune de Fandène a réuni à Fandène productrices, élus locaux et autres acteurs du développement pour échanger sur la problématique de l’accaparement des terres.

The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22.

« Des terres et des territoires » : Visionscarto rend régulièrement compte de ce récit cartographique, qui prend peu à peu forme sous le pinceau d’Agnès Stienne. Notre ambition est de le faire vivre sous la forme d’une exposition itinérante traduite en plusieurs langues, ainsi que d’un web-documentaire. Son auteure lance ici un appel à soutien et participation.

Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.

Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.