Gates says many large land deals in Africa are beneficial, criticizes Western groups for holding them back, and says those who invest in Africa are the ones who are at risk.

Ato Tamiru, chairman of the Gumare Kebele in Gambella, western Ethiopia, and people in his kebele have been protesting the leasing of a large tract of land to an Indian company to be used for tea farming even though there is a severe food shortage in the country.

Interview with Ibrahima Coulibaly about land grabs in Mali

The leftist World Social Forum yesterday denounced land grabbing in Africa by foreign groups as a form of neo-colonialism in a day devoted to debates on the continent.

Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".

The UAE and other GCC member countries should draw up a unified food security strategy with the bloc, and not individual countries, investing in farms abroad to minimise risks of political blackmail.

Pakistan Foreign Minister says there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources.

Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.

Foreign investors see Africa as a breadbasket. Done well, investment could help with African hunger but create food security for the rest of the world.

Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis and the country’s environmental regulator have both written to the Agriculture Ministry expressing concern over the sale of forestry land to foreign agricultural companies.

I don't know why the Africa leaders are so blind that they can't see the threat farmland grabs pose for their national sovereignty.

Asian and Middle East buyers want to buy agriculture companies in Ukraine to secure supply of grains and oilseeds, Vienna-based Raiffeisen Investment AG said.