Panel on food and agriculture included a discussion about ‘land grabs’, large and small farm models, and how investment in Africa could be increased, but also guided and regulated.

Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments in sub-Saharan Africa, announces it has acquired a 63% stake in South Africa's largest table olive supplier.

Partner organizations of Pesticide Action Network - Asia and the Pacific launch a book compiling seven case studies on land grabbing in the region as part of its activities to mark "World Foodless Day"

Dean Jobling, CEO and Founder of Sunu Agro, explains how his company's farm project in Senegal will be delivering investors expected returns of 239% over 5 years.

Foreign investors, often working with current or former military officials, are scrambling to build roads, factories, power plants, bridges and industrial-sized plantations.

Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.

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.