As investors rush to East and southern Africa for large-scale land acquisitions, a majority of Africa’s farmers now farm on less than one hectare.

500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.

Farmland ranked as the most attractive investment in a survey of 197 Czech and Slovak millionaires.

Earlier this week, the Overseas Investment Office said it did not know how much farmland was owned by foreigners. Yesterday it told Prime Minister Key it believed the amount is 1 to 2 per cent.

The killing on 27th July 2014 of a teenage farmer by a soldier from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces is the latest tragedy emerging out of Cambodia’s land grabbing crisis.

The global land grab is not the consequence of ad hoc crises; it is the logical outcome from the policies and political environment laid down before it.

Businesses and wealthy oligarchs have taken ownership over huge tracts of agricultural land, and pushed into poverty a large number of smallholders.

A new survey reports that foreign ownership of Australian farmland grew by 4.7 million hectares in just two-and-a-half years.

Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN

Serge Fortin, chief executive of Canadian farmland investment company Pangea, believes Quebec's small farms must be replaced by larger farms to survive

The problem is often not so much regulations as the failure to implement them or a lack of practical control, write Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag.

China has plans to lease about 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in Crimea, says Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

Why the struggle to quantify the global land grabbing crisis is part of the problem.

Paradis agricole, la Roumanie est de plus en plus convoitée par les investisseurs étrangers, au risque de voir ses terres arables lui échapper.

The target is 500,000 hectares by 2020, nearly four times the current level.

Once Kyrgyzstan joins the Eurasian Economic Union, due for early 2015 and so far consisting of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia, it will have both the obligation and a chance to allow investors from partner countries to lease its farmland.

As the economy thrives, filmmakers Veronique Mauduy and Romain Pelleray examine the plight of Ethiopians forced from their land to make way for foreign investors.

Chinese entrepreneurs are going global ahead of officials. Countries with developed agriculture such as the US, Australia, Chile and Argentina have become their prime destinations.

A new review sought by Assembly Republicans of a law that limits foreign ownership of state land was criticized Thursday by an Assembly Democrat who called it an “end-around” attempt to change it.

Chinese firms already lease or control at least 600,000 hectares of land in Russia's Far East, which is equivalent to the size of a small U.S. state like Delaware.

On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.

On the margins of the annual World Bank land and poverty conference in April a donor roundtable agreed to establish a first global donor working group on land, which was launched recently. Video interview with the first chair of the group, from DFID.

Commissioner for Agriculture of Nigeria's Edo State says his government gave 10,000 hectares to Ekha Chemical Company two weeks ago for cassava production, while two other companies have asked for 25,000 hectares each for palm oil and rice.

The Australian Greens Greens say the government should be cracking down on foreign investors buying up Australian farms to protect not only the economy but also long-term food security.

Investigation conducted revealed that Equatorial Palm Oil's operation in Bassa is currently experiencing setback owing to the action by the Legislative Caucus via the citizens. As a result, the company is contemplating on a possible pull out.

Despite its prohibition on the foreign ownership of land, the Philippines emerged as one of the countries with the largest tracts of farmland that were ceded to foreigners globally, according to the 2013 WTO Report.

DESPITE its prohibition on the foreign ownership of land, the Philippines emerged as one of the countries with the largest tracts of farmland that were ceded to foreigners globally, according to the 2013 World Trade Organization (WTO) Report.

Reflections on a project to map instances of rural land-grabbing in Tanzania.

Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.

Sugar cane and palm oil companies able to afford inflated rents are forcing Guatemala's smallholder farmers off their land.