Sinar Mas Group says it will invest US$1.6 billion in the Liberian palm oil business to expand operations overseas.

An American multinational, AVCO Agri Company Limited Ghana has acquired 500 hectares of land at Dorfor Agorveme in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region to start rice cultivation

As conflict raged across Kachin state, a group of Chinese investors recently bought up large amounts of farmland in the Hukaung Valley and other parts of the state in order to expand rubber and cassava plantations, says Kachin peace activist, Khun Jar.

The land grabs are not an Equatorian issue. It is a national problem that should not be looked at from a regional or tribal perspective.

Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia, present new report about their dispute with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby.

The leading sugar miller in Mauritius, Omnicane, has a 25 per cent share in the company and recently said there were plans of raising the stake to 50 per cent when the factory is commissioned.

Investigative report reveals how foreign companies illegally gain control over Malaysian companies with land concessions in Sarawak.

Leery of product safety in China, Zhu Zhangjin is urging farmers to invest abroad like he has

Under the initiative of the Indian Ocean Commission, Madagascar is the focus of a large project to produce and export agricultural products to ensure the food security of this regional space, raising the spectre of land grabbing.

As land is grabbed and earmarked for development, this often has implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.

Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.

Mats Widgren provides an update on a Swedish company's land grab for sugar cane production in Tanzania.