Future Agricultures Consortium

 Malawi: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"

  FAC researcher Blessings Chinsinga is quoted in this article about farmers ejected from land they had previously been allowed to farm.

 BBC: Zimbabwean Farmers Working Nigerian Land

 Geographical: A new colonial carve-up?

  Wealthy countries have been buying up huge tracts of land in developing countries and paying billions of dollars for the privilege. But do the local people ever benefit? Mark Rowe investigates

 New-ag : Land grab or development opportunity?

  African farming is in desperate need of investment. Without it, given the pressures of an increasing population, exhaustion of soils and minimal farm infrastructure, millions of smallholder farmers seem condemned to low productivity.

 G20-Agriculture: Hundreds of organizations say STOP farm land grabbing!

  Hundreds of civil society organisations will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 - 23.

 Guardian: US universities in Africa 'land grab'

  Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out

 BBC News Zimbabwe land reform 'not a failure'

  Zimbabwe's often violent land reform programme has not been the complete economic disaster widely portrayed, a new study has found.

 IDS: Zimbabwe's land reform ten years on: new study dispels the myths

  Study published which asks what has happened in 10 years since large areas of Zimbabwe's commercial farm land were invaded by land-hungry villagers

 Nature: Soya Scrutiny

  A partnership to encourage sustainable farming in Brazil may not be as green as it seems

 Guardian Small-scale farmers increasingly at risk from 'global land grabbing'

  While investment is critical for agriculture, the rush into long-term land leases is a dramatic step with many risks and substantial social and environmental costs