A new register of agricultural land will not be made public despite the Government's promise to provide more transparency over foreign investment in Australian farms.

Advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today joined peasant and indigenous groups, land activists, and human rights campaigners in the region in marking the global Day of the Landless through a solidarity action in Jakarta.

The Middle Eastern kingdom needs hay for its 170,000 cows. So, it's buying up farmland for the water-chugging crop in the drought-stricken American Southwest.

Authorities in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have granted hundreds of long-term land leases called economic land concessions to foreign and domestic developers to set up rubber, sugar or other plantations or mining projects. A closer look at the issue

The Bunong say they never were warned their land would be taken and were not offered compensation before the land started to be cleared — two steps required under Cambodian law.

An Ethiopian state body that has been involved in leasing tracts of land for commercial farming has suspended the issuance of new licences until it completes a review because of scant progress in developing areas leased so far, an official said.

On 3 February, President Santos signed the Zidres Law, which actually serves the interest of land grabbers in Colombia

Directeurs, parlementaires, généraux d’armée, ministres…, usant du trafic d’influence, accaparent à vil prix de vastes étendues de terre dans cette partie du pays déjà sollicitée par des agro-industries.

Les parlementaires québécois concluent qu’il faut obtenir un portrait plus détaillé des transactions de terres agricoles pour pouvoir mieux juger du phénomène d’accaparement des terres.

La compra es parte de la reversión en su política saudí de intentar cultivar en su propio país lo que consume, para favorecer ahora los cultivos en granjas en el extranjero.

El fenómeno de los "acaparamientos de tierras", en crecimiento a partir de 2008, evidencia todo un proceso de reconcentración y acumulación que se expresa de formas muy diversas (no sólo a través de la concentración de tierras, sino también tomando el control sobre las cadenas de valor global, por ejemplo).