"Between now and the next seven, eight years, our Group in Nigeria will have over 100,000 hectares of plantations," says the Chairman of Presco Plc, a company controlled by SIAT of Belgium.

Many millions of the world’s poorest people face existential threats to house and home.

Institutional investors are poised to make grabs for large farmland assets in ­Australia, according to local and ­offshore fund managers.

The guide proposes model contract clauses that can fill gaps in domestic law and contribute to promoting more sustainable foreign agricultural investment.

Millions of small-scale farmers in Burma risk losing land under proposals to regulate land use which focus too much on investment and not enough on people’s livelihoods.

Laos is to allow foreign investors to purchase land under a proposed law which some groups say would discriminate against locals and threaten national sovereignty.

Disregarding the rights of indigenous people to their traditional lands is costing companies millions of dollars each year, and costing communities themselves their lives.

Hanhe Farm, located in Nakaseke Administrative District, is the first private Chinese land-based agriculture enterprise in Uganda.

The Bolloré company and the Transnational Alliance of Local Communities of the plantations controlled by the group held a negotiation session during which several commitments were made to resolve local land conflicts.

After a painstaking two-year negotiation process, the Principles lack the power to change the status quo, whereby corporate profit trumps human rights and the environment.

Conference issues a declaration and resolves to form an Africa Coalition Against Land Grabs (ACALG)

Land grabbing is done with limited (if any) consultation of communities, limited (if any) compensation, and lack of regard for environmental sustainability and equitable access to, or control over, natural resources.