Over 55 million hectares of land in Africa have been "grabbed" since 2000, according to research presented at a conference earlier in the week. Dr Blessing Karumbidza, senior research associate at the Durban University of Technology, says more land had been "grabbed" in Africa between 2000 and 2012 than in the rest of the world combined. He made a presentation on behalf of Prof Robert Home from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Land grabs were broadly defined as large-scale land acquisitions which displaced vulnerable communities and farmers, with disregard for the rights of these people and social and environmental impacts. Executive Director of Gravitazz Continental Initiative Milan Atam...