Media Reports

• The Guardian, Ugandan villagers evicted to make way for forestry company (video)
• The Guardian, Mark Tran UN expert calls for guidelines to protect vulnerable people against ‘land grabs’ (quotes keynote speaker, Olivier de Schutter)
• Geographical Magazine A new colonial carve-up? includes quote from Ian Scoones, FAC
• The Guardian, Fred Pearce South Africa’s white farmers are moving further north
• Guardian Focus Podcast Madeleine Bunting: How land grabs in Africa could herald a new dystopian age of hunger
• The Guardian, Jaz Cummins and Claire Provost Talk point: Land grabs

Other Resources

• GRAIN – Landgrab resource page
• International Land Coalition
• ICAS/ISS Land, Poverty, Social Justice and Development
• ILRI – The gender implications of large-scale land deals
  
• Global Donor Platform – Land, Investment and Development
• IIED – Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa
• IFPRI – “Land grabbing” by foreign investors in developing countries
• Farm Land Grab .org – Food Crisis and the Global land Grab
• Dakar Appeal against the land grab, World Social Forum 2011
• Sime Darby on lookout for land, Reuters
• Agriterra to build port facility in Guinea, World Grain Staff
• Businesses urge Dubai to snap up farmland abroad, Farmlandgrab.org
• Ethiopian “sacred forests” sold to Indian tea producer, afrol News
• Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken, Afrik News
• Stop the global land grab, The Guardian
• Challenging Western distortions about Zimbabwe’s land reform, Global Research
• Hunger and food security: Is Africa selling the farm?, The Christian Science Monitor
• Food for all, The Malta Independent Online
• Land Grabbing in Kenya and Mozambique, FoodFirst Information and Action Network
• Congo offers investment opportunities in agriculture for Indian entrepreneurs, Food and Beverage News
• South African farmers ready to venture into the Congo, Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
• Libyan land grab of Mali’s rice-producing land , Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
• Mali opposition party demands details of land leases, warns of possible ‘land grab’, AP
• Redrawing colonial boundaries in the 21st century, All Africa.com
• Madagascar: Daewoo’s rainforest land grab in nature’s paradise, Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
• Global land grab takes root amid growing poverty , Business Daily
• Fears for the world’s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food, The Guardian
• Tanzania: Researchers Tout Large Scale Commercial Farming, Tanzania Daily News
• International land grab sounds warning bells, The freelibrary.com
• Unpacking a Chinese company’s land grab in Cameroon, GRAIN
• Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities, BBC
• Food crisis and the global land grab, Ethiopian Review
• Kenya, Qatar land deal questioned, Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
• The backlash begins against the world landgrab, The Telegraph
• The great green land grab, The Guardian
• Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa, IFAD
• Biofuel demand driving new Africa ‘land grab’: study, Global Times