A year ago today, Ethiopian security forces arrested Pastor Omot Agwa and six colleagues at Addis Ababa’s Bole Airport on their way to a food security workshop and took them to the notorious Maekelawi police station, where torture is routine.

One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail on the spurious charge of “terrorism”.

Aujourd’hui, alors qu’un comité parlementaire européen révise le programme de développement appelé Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (NASAN), des militants venus de différents pays d’Europe mettent en scène l’affrontement entre les grandes multinationales et les petits agriculteurs.

World Bank organizes costly conferences on land governance while overlooking the forced relocation of farmers and indigenous people resulting from its policies and programs.

The Thai government's much vaunted Special Economic Zones are under scrutiny amid reports of land grabs by foreign firms dodging the law on foreign acquisitions by having Thais act as nominees.

While most of the big corporate money has been falling over itself to buy into Australia's largest landowner, S. Kidman & Co, Rifa has quietly bought a total of seven properties in the last few months.

Financial investors own tracts that grow maize and soya beans in Illinois and Uruguay, almonds and cattle in Australia, and sugar beets and wheat in Poland. Some are venturing into countries with potentially volatile politics, such as Ethiopia and Ukraine.

The Qatar backed agricultural land and food producing company Hassad has defended its financial record in Australia following a report which showed its property company had never made a profit.

The four farms in the ‘macadamia capital of Australia’ cover 545 ha across four adjoining farms with 109,000 mature trees and were put up for sale in 2013 by one of the largest institutional managers of agricultural real estate in the US, Hancock Farm Company.

“I find it peculiar that a nation that is the venue for so much flow of funds from overseas to invest in our agricultural assets is not the same venue for Australian super funds to invest in,” ag minister Barnaby Joyce says.

Loro Horta reports on recent Chinese overseas investment in agriculture in the Lusophone world

La Caravane pour l'eau, la terre et les semences est partie au début du mois du Burkina Faso, elle va jusqu'au Sénégal et elle fait halte en ce moment dans la capitale malienne

Accaparement de terres, mise en péril de zones naturelles remarquées ou privatisation de patrimoines publics ? La fronde continue de monter contre le projet de vente au Qatar du domaine d’État de Thiverval-Grignon en France.

Les Chinois ne se contentent plus d'acheter les produits alimentaires australiens dont ils raffolent : des investisseurs chinois acquièrent des fermes, dont les plus grandes et les plus anciennes de l'île continent.

"We believe this was a tactic to get us into prison so that we cannot raise our voice on the unacceptable land deals in Malen Chiefdom."