Vast areas of land are leased to foreign as well as national investors on a long term basis of 30-99 years...[These] deals tend to go along with corruption, forced evictions and other human rights violations as well as enhanced competition over water. The challenges...are even heightened in conflict-prone regions, where property of and access to land and water often are among the key dividing issues...This roundtable on conflict sensitive water and land management assembled representatives of Swiss civil society and state agencies [and] debated the implications of land acquisition on their work as well as their responses...This report picks out some of the main issues dis-cussed at the roundtable, adds some further thoughts of the authors...