Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk will open a US$1 billion dairy in a Moscow suburb that will produces its own animal feed and breed its own cows

The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.

George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in agriculture and infrastructure projects in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there.

The Romanian NGO Eco Ruralis has published several fact sheets on foreign companies grabbing farmland in Romania, including Padova Agricultura, Riso Scotti, Generali, and Bardeau.

African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2014

Almarai said to be among Saudi companies that plan to expand their business in Egypt, along with food oil firm Saffola and Jannat Agriculture Investment Company.

Economist of CI Capital says farming sector requires “more corporatisation”, as the majority of the country’s arable areas of land, largely extending along the river Nile, are family-owned.

As the land and resource grabbers remain determined to take away what rightfully belongs to the people, we must be more resolute than ever in our struggle to defend land, resources and human rights. A join statement by landless peasant, farm workers, indigenous community and civil society organisation.

The recent torture and murder of Indra Pelan is the result of widely entrenched industrial plantation system whereby whole swaths of rural land have been taken from locals without their consent.

Social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defence of the rights to land and water met at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to continue their dialogue with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence

For the 75% of world's population that has no access to formal systems of land registration or other means to safeguard their land rights, large-scale land acquisitions are a particular threat.

The Asian Peasant Coalition denounces the World Bank on its “16th Conference on Land and Poverty” that brings together corporations, governments and some civil society groups