Oxfam has warned "land grabs" akin to the Highland Clearances in Scotland are taking place in developing countries with some of the world's poorest people forcibly evicted.    The international development charity says land 26 times the size of Scotland was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people.    ...

Oxfam is calling on every Scottish MP to back the creation of a strong international Arms Trade Treaty. The aid agency has written to politicians urging them to support a binding global agreement that will cover bullets, as well as bombs. It comes as a new report reveals global sales of ammunition are worth more than $4bn (263KB) and are growing at a faster rate than the trade in guns, yet there is virtually no regulation...