Participants find that land grabbing is occurring at a scale and speed as never before, resulting in widespread displacement and dispossession of local communities.
Australia is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to foreign companies buying important agricultural land and greater scrutiny is needed, farmers say.
Pengxin International of Shanghai, which already has farmland holdings in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Cambodia, has offered to buy the 16 North Island Crafar farm properties in New Zealand
It is shameful that the Ethiopian Ambassador to the UK would claim that the areas targeted for foreign investment have no adequate social and economic infrastructures such as education, health facilities and roads.
Communities in Edo State, Nigeria at odds over projects to bring foreign investors in to carry out development on large expanses of farmland.
Egypt's public prosecutors' office said on Sunday it had frozen land in southern Egypt controlled by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal because the original sale of the land violated the law.
Nigeria's Heirs Holdings Ltd. completes investment in Mtanga Farms, a 2,200 ha farming operation at the heart of Tanzania's national initiative to combat food insecurity.
Colin Filer says 5 million hectares of customary land has passed into the hands of national and foreign corporations in Papua New Guinea using a legal mechanism called the 'lease-lease-back scheme'.
Efficient agriculture needs “concentrated land ownership,” says President Viktor Yanukovych.
Corporations and bankers do not believe in farming as a way of life; they believe in farming as a very profitable business that they control. Their goal is not to improve family farming in Africa, but to eradicate it.
An interview with Mamy Rakotondrainibe, an activist with the Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, about the struggle against land grabbing in Madagascar.
New research presented at a major conference on global land grabbing, being held at IDS, reveals that the true extent of deals being struck for land in Africa is far greater than reported.
