Significant progress in the negotiations to recognise the importance of workers’ rights is undermined by the text on trade and investment agreements which will destroy those very rights.

The European Commission started legal action against Hungary over the right of foreigners to buy agricultural land, saying restrictions on such purchases violated the European Union's principle of free movement of capital.

Some analysts worry that family farms are under increasing pressure from speculators, as prices for land rise due to a growing world population.

Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.

FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"

New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.

PAN Asia Pacific says the principles on agricultural investment are self-contradicting and fail in promoting the human right to food, land and resources.

The ruling Frelimo party has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice.

Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".

At the heart of the current conflict is the government's development policy and the uncontrolled influx of migrants acquiring lands in the indigenous people’s territories.

Siva Group's oil palm plantation land deal in Papua New Guinea described as "one of the worst land development schemes ever".

UkrLandFarming, the Ukraine agriculture giant in which Cargill bought a stake in January, is seeking further investors to fund a warchest for buying on the cheap groups brought low by the country's crisis.