In the occasion of Committe on World Food Security session in Rome Glopolis is publishing a briefing on responsible agricultural investment which is one of the main issues discussing during this forum.
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Central Organisation of Trade Unions has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the management of a flower farm owned by the Indian company, Karuturi.
The Insight Global Farmland Fund, has snapped up Forrest Hill Station in the Northern Territory and all its cattle for $6.4 million in a deal negotiated by Elders.
A deal signed between Ukrainian and Chinese authorities last month may impact up to 3 million hectares of prime farmland in Eastern Ukraine, a space roughly the size of Belgium.
The film "No Land No Food No Life" examines the challenges and struggles farmers face despite the exultation they experience in their fight to retain control of their land.
Now the government of President Santos seems to be pressing for reforms to the law that would enable further concentration of land in Colombia, even though this would be incoherent with the government’s own commitments to date in the peace talks.
The primary aim of this book is to advance the understanding of the regulatory conditions under which large-scale farmland investments can contribute to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Five Japanese nongovernmental organizations have called for a review of a Japanese government-backed large-scale farm development project in Mozambique.
Swedish, Norwegian and Dutch investors in Mozambique land grab: powerful new documentary gives a compelling visual portrait of how investment by private financial players can undermine food security and human rights in developing countries.
The second Afro-Arab Ministerial Meeting on Agricultural Development and Food Security opened in Riyadh with participants agreeing to strengthen Afro-Arab cooperation towards promoting ''sustainable and sensible investment in agriculture and food security''.
Demand for sugar is triggering land conflicts, says Oxfam, as it calls on Coca-Cola and other major firms to have zero tolerance