The Coca-Cola Co has made a good start in axing land grabs from its supply chain, but it must work harder in proving that its bottlers and sugar suppliers do not violate land rights, development experts told the company.

Land is life. But for millions of small-scale farmers and food producers, including indigenous communities, access to land and resources is undermined by monopoly control of landlords and big corporations. Support "No Land, No Life" campaign.

The decision by the government to invite and accommodate investors in large scale farming has divided the nation into two alliances: the government-investor versus NGO-smallholder farmers.

Kuban Agricultural Holding is in talks to sell a stake with a number of Asian funds and investment companies, including Chinese firm CIC, which is interested in Basic Element's livestock division.

European food companies are illegally grabbing land from smallhold farmers in Africa as part of the G8 New Alliance project, says an Action Aid report published this month.

An official of Davao City, Philippines said Monday that a Malaysian company is set to develop a 1,000-hectare property for oil palm in Marilog District.

DanChurchAid, CARE Denmark and MS calls for more transparency of pension investments in African agriculture.

This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.

On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.

Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.

PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.

Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.