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Madagascar : fortes inquiétudes autour de la nouvelle loi foncière
7 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | Foncier & développement Lors de sa dernière réunion du 10 novembre, les experts (...)
France : l’accaparement des terres, une pratique silencieuse qui transforme l’agriculture
2 March 2022
01 Mar 2022 | TV5Monde Dans "Hold-up sur la terre", la journaliste et auteure, Lucile Leclair, (...)
Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo
28 February 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Collective statement Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements (...)
Madagascar: 3000 personnes se cachent dans la forêt à cause d’un litige foncier
28 February 2022
25 Feb 2022 | Collectif TANY 10 communautés malgaches défendent leurs droits fonciers face à la (...)
« Tout ce qui est fait pour l’Afrique sans le peuple africain n’est pas pour l’Afrique »
25 February 2022
17 Feb 2022 | AFSA Une déclaration prononcée lors du « Sommet des peuples africains » en vue du (...)
Haït : l’accaparement des fermes agricoles, un calvaire pour les paysans
25 February 2022
24 Feb 2022 | Le Nouvelliste L'accaparement des fermes agricoles publiques et privées est un (...)
Etat des terres agricoles en France, le premier rapport de Terre de Liens
23 February 2022
21 Feb 2022 | Terre de Liens Plus de 5 millions d’hectares soit près de 20 % de la surface (...)
ONU : 72 643 signatures pour l’arrêt des affaires avec le Groupe Bolloré
16 February 2022
14 Feb 2022 | Sauvons la forêt Sauvons la forêt et l’Oakland Institute ont envoyé une pétition de (...)
L’engouement des fonds d’investissement pour l’agriculture et l’agroalimentaire
15 February 2022
15 Feb 2022 | Commodafrica Aujourd’hui, on compte 730 fonds d’investissement spécialisés dans le (...)
Une enquête révèle l’ampleur et les conséquences de l’accaparement des terres en France
11 February 2022
11 Feb 2022 | Amis de la terre La journaliste Lucile Leclair publie aujourd’hui au Seuil, une (...)
Foncier au Burkina : « L’accaparement des terres est un phénomène d’appauvrissement de la population », déclare Léon Koama
9 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | LeFaso.net Dans cette interview, Léon Koama, inspecteur des impôts, aborde les (...)
Procédures-bâillons: une pétition remise à la Commission, une directive attendue
2 February 2022
01 Feb 2022 | RTBF Des membres de la coalition "CASE", un groupement d'ONG contre les (...)
Luxembourg : Des entreprises «négligent les droits humains»
1 February 2022
01 Feb 2022 | L'essentiel Une coalition de 17 organisations de la société civile luxembourgeoise (...)
France : Dans le Jura, 600 personnes reprennent la terre aux spéculateurs pour la rendre aux paysan-ne-s
31 January 2022
30 Jan 2022 | Cobfédération paysanne Plus de 600 personnes ont investi une parcelle de 2 hectares (...)
Algérie : 136.000 hectares mis à la disposition des investisseurs
31 January 2022
30 Jan 2022 | Algérie-Eco « Plus de 750 mille hectares de terres agricoles attribuées et non (...)
Hold-up sur la terre
27 January 2022
27 Jan 2022 | Alternatives économiques Note de lecture du nouveau livre de Lucile (...)
Le CRAFS rame à contre-courant
25 January 2022
22 Jan 2022 | Seneplus Le Cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (Crafs) soutient (...)
Mettre fin à la concentration du foncier agricole
25 January 2022
25 Jan 2022 | Alternatives économiques En France, la loi Sempastous ne traite qu’un pan de la (...)
Sénégal : Énième plaidoyer de membres de la Société civile pour une meilleure régulation du foncier agricole.
24 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Dakar Actu Le Cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS) refuse (...)
Droits des communautés impactées par les projets de développement en Guinée : ce que le CODEC recommande aux autorités
24 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Guinée Matin Dans le souci d’une gouvernance foncière responsable en Guinée, le (...)
Au Ghana, Oba Pack rachète Babator Farming Company à AgDevCo
19 January 2022
18 Jan 2022 | Commodafrica BFC est une ferme commerciale irriguée de 356 hectares qui a été (...)
Mali : Nouvelle loi dominiale et foncière : Des innovations majeures apportées
17 January 2022
17 Jan 2022 | Maliweb Les attestations de possession et/ou de détention prévues par la loi sur le (...)
Les ZAAP : quels résultats ?
17 January 2022
16 Jan 2022 | Agridigitale L’une des réformes majeures pour sécuriser le foncier agricole au Togo (...)
RDC: Policiers et militaires tirent à balles réelles sur des ouvriers de PHC en grève à la plantation de Boteka
17 January 2022
08 Jan 2022 | RIAO-RDC En début de 2022, les violations des droits des ouvriers continue à battre (...)
Palmeraies au Cameroun : 145 riverains contre le groupe Bolloré déboutés en France
8 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | AFP Quelque 145 Camerounais ont été déboutés vendredi par la justice française alors (...)
Nouvel épisode judiciaire autour du groupe Bolloré au Cameroun
7 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | RFI L’enjeu du délibéré, ce vendredi 7 janvier, est de permettre à la justice (...)
Bolloré en Afrique, une série d’affaires judiciaires
7 January 2022
06 Jan 2022 | France4 La justice française doit statuer dans le cadre d’une affaire opposant 145 (...)
Madagascar : fortes inquiétudes autour de la nouvelle loi foncière
7 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | Foncier & développement Lors de sa dernière réunion du 10 novembre, les experts (...)
African oil palm expansion slows, reputation risks remain for FMCGs
4 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | CRR The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West (...)
Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions
4 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | Mongabay An area nearly the size of Belgium will be cleared in Indonesia’s Papua (...)
Uganda: 30,000 evicted locals cry to govt for compensation
3 March 2022
25 Feb 2022 | Monitor More than 30,000 residents, who were evicted from their land in (...)
Unmasking Sarai Group, vicious wolves In sheep skin
3 March 2022
14 Feb 2022 | Soko Directory Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of (...)
TLG fundraising in Uruguay to buyout and expand portfolio
2 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | GAI TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, (...)
Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company
2 March 2022
02 Mar 2022 | Queensland Country Life US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed (...)
Benue farm burning: Obasanjo to continue with agricultural investments
2 March 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Pulse Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in (...)
Pakistan’s Fatima Group seals $1bn industrial deals with Saudi, Chinese companies
2 March 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Arab News The collaboration with Sarh Attaqnia Co and CMEC aims to unlock (...)
Argentina: los patrones de Corrientes
2 March 2022
26 Feb 2022 | Sudestada El desastre ambiental que provocan los incendios es inseparable de las (...)
Congolese businessman, Katumbi, embraces agriculture
2 March 2022
26 Feb 2022 | Africa News DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 (...)
Bashe invites agricultural investors to Tanzania
2 March 2022
26 Feb 2022 | Daily News Speaking at Dubai Expo 2020, Tanzania's Minister for Agriculture says (...)
France : l’accaparement des terres, une pratique silencieuse qui transforme l’agriculture
2 March 2022
01 Mar 2022 | TV5Monde Dans "Hold-up sur la terre", la journaliste et auteure, Lucile Leclair, (...)
Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo
28 February 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Collective statement Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements (...)
Development banks make shameless exit from a colonial land grab in the Congo
28 February 2022
28 Feb 2022 | Collective statement Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for (...)
European DFIs sell debt in Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC)
28 February 2022
22 Feb 2022 | CDC BIO of Belgium, CDC of the UK, DEG of Germany and FMO from the Netherlands (...)
Madagascar: 3000 personnes se cachent dans la forêt à cause d’un litige foncier
28 February 2022
25 Feb 2022 | Collectif TANY 10 communautés malgaches défendent leurs droits fonciers face à la (...)
Argentina: Extranjerización de la Tierra | Chinos, yanquis y franceses: los principales terratenientes foráneos de Salta
26 February 2022
21 Feb 2022 | Cuarto Hace tiempo que se sabe que la provincia encabeza el ranking con el 11,5% (...)
Haït : l’accaparement des fermes agricoles, un calvaire pour les paysans
25 February 2022
24 Feb 2022 | Le Nouvelliste L'accaparement des fermes agricoles publiques et privées est un (...)
« Tout ce qui est fait pour l’Afrique sans le peuple africain n’est pas pour l’Afrique »
25 February 2022
17 Feb 2022 | AFSA Une déclaration prononcée lors du « Sommet des peuples africains » en vue du (...)
Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’
24 February 2022
24 Feb 2022 | UN A new report by the UN Human Rights Office gives guidance to development (...)
Canadian pension fund invests in ex-plantation privatizing Hawaii’s water
23 February 2022
23 Feb 2022 | The Breach Canadian fund pours $600 million into farming operation in Maui that (...)
Etat des terres agricoles en France, le premier rapport de Terre de Liens
23 February 2022
21 Feb 2022 | Terre de Liens Plus de 5 millions d’hectares soit près de 20 % de la surface (...)
Louisiana Teachers OKs $50m to PGIM’s US agriculture fund
22 February 2022
10 Feb 2022 | IPE The Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana has approved a $50m commitment to (...)
Tova Farms raises $1MM in seed funding for mysterious avocado deal
22 February 2022
21 Feb 2022 | Blue Book Tova Farms, a commercial agricultural firm specializing in avocado owns (...)
Brasil: Proposta de novo marco legal da Regularização Fundiária é grave
21 February 2022
16 Feb 2022 | Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil As matérias representam ameaça às garantias (...)
Los dueños extranjeros de las tierras argentinas
21 February 2022
15 Feb 2022 | Página 12 El reclamo por Lago Escondido puso la lupa en la extranjerización de la (...)
Nigeria: Okomu Oil reports more attacks on company, blames ‘terrorists’
21 February 2022
19 Feb 2022 | Premium Times The oil palm plantation company has been embroiled in disputes over (...)
The Comb - Climate of danger: Exile
21 February 2022
20 Feb 2022 | BBC Death threats and exile: Local environmental defenders are the front line of (...)
African and European agriculture needs protection
17 February 2022
17 Feb 2022 | Euractiv In the lead up to the sixth European Union – African Union Summit, small, (...)
ONU : 72 643 signatures pour l’arrêt des affaires avec le Groupe Bolloré
16 February 2022
14 Feb 2022 | Sauvons la forêt Sauvons la forêt et l’Oakland Institute ont envoyé une pétition de (...)
South Sudan ready to lease land to Bangladesh: Razzaque
15 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | Daiy Star South Sudan's Deputy Minister for Foreign and International Cooperation (...)
L’engouement des fonds d’investissement pour l’agriculture et l’agroalimentaire
15 February 2022
15 Feb 2022 | Commodafrica Aujourd’hui, on compte 730 fonds d’investissement spécialisés dans le (...)
72,000 people call on the United Nations to end business with the Bolloré Group
14 February 2022
14 Feb 2022 | Oakland Institute The Bolloré Group is involved in rubber and oil palm plantations (...)
Arla signs JV agreement with Tolaram for establishment of modern dairy farm in Nigeria
14 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | Food Business Africa Arla Foods, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in Europe, (...)
Une enquête révèle l’ampleur et les conséquences de l’accaparement des terres en France
11 February 2022
11 Feb 2022 | Amis de la terre La journaliste Lucile Leclair publie aujourd’hui au Seuil, une (...)
Babiš feels the pinch as new Czech farm chief rewrites EU subsidy rules
10 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | Politico An EU audit found that the Czech Republic's former prime minister, the (...)
LACERA buys into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds
10 February 2022
09 Feb 2022 | IPE Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is buying into (...)
Camvert gets incentives for its XAF237 bln Campo agro-industrial complex
10 February 2022
09 Feb 2022 | Business in Cameroon Camvert SA, an agricultural production company controlled by (...)
Foncier au Burkina : « L’accaparement des terres est un phénomène d’appauvrissement de la population », déclare Léon Koama
9 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | LeFaso.net Dans cette interview, Léon Koama, inspecteur des impôts, aborde les (...)
Meet the investors behind the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
8 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | Oakland Institute As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral (...)
Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation
8 February 2022
08 Feb 2022 | Mongabay The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent (...)
Court halts land clearance on edge of protected park in Zambia
7 February 2022
07 Feb 2022 | Guardian Conservationists welcome interim injunction to stop farm development by (...)
Okomu oil suspends operations after deadly attack by gunmen
7 February 2022
03 Feb 2022 | Premium Times The Okomu Oil Palm Company in Edo State, Nigeria has suspended its (...)
Security operatives have gone after those who burnt my farm, ex-President Obasanjo says
7 February 2022
01 Feb 2022 | Sahara Reporters Land conflicts are alleged to be connected to a fire that burnt (...)
89 832 land agreements are incorporated in Ukraine
7 February 2022
04 Feb 2022 | Ukraine Government The Ministry of Agrarian policy and Food of Ukraine reports (...)
The great Amazon land grab – how Brazil’s government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation
3 February 2022
02 Feb 2022 | The Conversation The most widely publicized threat to the Amazonian rainforest is (...)
US court orders Coca-Cola to turn over evidence in Thai human rights case
3 February 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Business & Human Rights US court orders Coca-Cola Company to turn over (...)
Procédures-bâillons: une pétition remise à la Commission, une directive attendue
2 February 2022
01 Feb 2022 | RTBF Des membres de la coalition "CASE", un groupement d'ONG contre les (...)
Luxembourg : Des entreprises «négligent les droits humains»
1 February 2022
01 Feb 2022 | L'essentiel Une coalition de 17 organisations de la société civile luxembourgeoise (...)
Algérie : 136.000 hectares mis à la disposition des investisseurs
31 January 2022
30 Jan 2022 | Algérie-Eco « Plus de 750 mille hectares de terres agricoles attribuées et non (...)
France : Dans le Jura, 600 personnes reprennent la terre aux spéculateurs pour la rendre aux paysan-ne-s
31 January 2022
30 Jan 2022 | Cobfédération paysanne Plus de 600 personnes ont investi une parcelle de 2 hectares (...)
The government must proactively follow up the evaluation results and decision on sanction of business license revocation
31 January 2022
28 Jan 2022 | Yayasan Pusaka On January 5, 2022 the Government of Indonesia revoked over 2000 (...)
El trío inseparable: Acaparamiento de tierras, deforestación y crisis climática
28 January 2022
26 Jan 2022 | GRAIN Claramente el acaparamiento de la tierras está contribuyendo a la (...)
Hold-up sur la terre
27 January 2022
27 Jan 2022 | Alternatives économiques Note de lecture du nouveau livre de Lucile (...)
Secret Acres: Foreign-owned agricultural land inaccurately tracked by government
26 January 2022
26 Jan 2022 | Investigate TV Despite a federal law requiring foreign transactions of (...)
Hoang Anh Gia Lai aims high with pig, banana farming
26 January 2022
25 Jan 2022 | VN Express HAGL currently has some 10,000 hectares of fruit trees, including (...)
Cambodia: Firm grabs slice of local banana pie with titanic $51M venture
26 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Phnom Penh Post Longfruiter Anlong Veng Oddor Meanchey Agriculture Park Co Ltd (...)
Le CRAFS rame à contre-courant
25 January 2022
22 Jan 2022 | Seneplus Le Cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (Crafs) soutient (...)
Mettre fin à la concentration du foncier agricole
25 January 2022
25 Jan 2022 | Alternatives économiques En France, la loi Sempastous ne traite qu’un pan de la (...)
Cambodia: Public-private Agriculture 4.0 greenhouse deal struck
24 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Phnom Penh Post The minister said the MoU requires all parties to work together (...)
Sénégal : Énième plaidoyer de membres de la Société civile pour une meilleure régulation du foncier agricole.
24 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Dakar Actu Le Cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS) refuse (...)
Droits des communautés impactées par les projets de développement en Guinée : ce que le CODEC recommande aux autorités
24 January 2022
24 Jan 2022 | Guinée Matin Dans le souci d’une gouvernance foncière responsable en Guinée, le (...)
Friends of the Earth Africa documentary on industrial plantation impacts on women
21 January 2022
28 Dec 2021 | FoE Africa New FoEAfrica documentary shows the impacts of industrial plantation (...)
Contextualizing customary land registration in Uganda
21 January 2022
21 Jan 2022 | Land is spiritual, land is ideological, and we cannot afford to give it away for (...)
Council urges mayor to pursue leases for East Maui water
20 January 2022
20 Jan 2022 | Politics on Maui A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment (...)
Minister heralds Chinese agri investments
19 January 2022
18 Jan 2022 | Phnom Penh Post Cambodia's Minister of Agriculture hosts meeting on agricultural (...)
How a bloody land feud in Honduras is stoking migrant flight to U.S.
19 January 2022
23 Dec 2021 | Reuters Nearly 150 murders and disappearances in connection with land conflicts (...)
The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart
19 January 2022
19 Jan 2022 | OpenDemocracy We can no longer afford to pour billions in public money into (...)
AgDevCo offloads Babator Farming Company to Ghanaian Oba Pack Limited, accelerating investment in farming hub
19 January 2022
17 Jan 2022 | Food Business Africa A Ghanaian-owned agribusiness has acquired a 356 hectare (...)
Au Ghana, Oba Pack rachète Babator Farming Company à AgDevCo
19 January 2022
18 Jan 2022 | Commodafrica BFC est une ferme commerciale irriguée de 356 hectares qui a été (...)
El caso de Socfin en Sierra Leona
18 January 2022
18 Jan 2022 | Umoya La adquisición de tierras a gran escala por parte de Socfin Agricultural (...)
The mediation between Busra Indigenous Communities and Socfin Cambodia concludes with agreements to end long-standing land disputes
18 January 2022
03 Dec 2021 | MRLG In September 2021, the signature of the final agreements between (...)
US: Corporations are consolidating water and land rights in the West
17 January 2022
04 Jan 2022 | The Counter With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented (...)
Aconsejamos a la ONU detener sus contratos con el Grupo Bolloré
17 January 2022
17 Jan 2022 | Salva la Selva El Grupo Bolloré, uno de sus mayores proveedores de servicios, está (...)
Les ZAAP : quels résultats ?
17 January 2022
16 Jan 2022 | Agridigitale L’une des réformes majeures pour sécuriser le foncier agricole au Togo (...)
Mali : Nouvelle loi dominiale et foncière : Des innovations majeures apportées
17 January 2022
17 Jan 2022 | Maliweb Les attestations de possession et/ou de détention prévues par la loi sur le (...)
Una oferta por 500 millones de dólares por una megaempresa agrícola despierta intriga en Paraguay
15 January 2022
14 Jan 2022 | Infobae Se trata de PAYCO que administra 130 mil hectáreas productivas. Formaba (...)
The battle for Zimbabwe’s land never ended
14 January 2022
22 Apr 2021 | Vice Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national (...)
High Court gives Mnangagwa greenlight to evict Chilonga villagers
14 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | New Zimbabwe The government in February last year planned to evict 12,000 (...)
Argentina. Chaco y Salta: al desamparo del desarrollo
12 January 2022
11 Jan 2022 | La Tinta Acaparamiento de tierras, contaminación de las aguas, desmontes, sequías (...)
Presiden cabut izin jutaan hektar, saatnya kembali ke rakyat dan pulihkan lingkungan
11 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | Mongabay Awal tahun 2022, Presiden Joko Widodo memulai dengan mencabut lebih dari (...)
Indonesia revokes more than 2,000 mining and plantation permits
11 January 2022
06 Jan 2022 | Reuters More than 2,000 mining, plantation and forest-use permits have been (...)
Lao villagers refuse to cede land for Chinese-owned banana farm
11 January 2022
04 Jan 2022 | RFA Villagers in southern Laos’ Saravane province are refusing to hand over (...)
Rural dispossession and resistance in Asia and Africa
11 January 2022
30 Sep 2021 | Routledge Indigenous people, peasants and indentured labour/migrant workers, (...)
Brasil: Justiça anula fraude de empresas que levou à grilagem de 563 mil hectares de terra ocupada por povos tradicionais no PA
11 January 2022
10 Jan 2022 | G1 Globo Ação do MPF aponta que empresas cometeram apropriação ilegal e que (...)
Finlays scales down operations in Sri Lanka with sale of tea estates to Brown Investments
10 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | Food Business Africa Finlays, a subsidiary of the UK Swire Group, is selling its (...)
Open letter to downstream consumer goods companies on the criminalisation of rights defenders in Ecuador
10 January 2022
21 Dec 2021 | FPP Energy & Palma has opened a SLAPP lawsuit against leaders in the (...)
RDC: Policiers et militaires tirent à balles réelles sur des ouvriers de PHC en grève à la plantation de Boteka
9 January 2022
08 Jan 2022 | RIAO-RDC En début de 2022, les violations des droits des ouvriers continue à battre (...)
Palmeraies au Cameroun : 145 riverains contre le groupe Bolloré déboutés en France
8 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | AFP Quelque 145 Camerounais ont été déboutés vendredi par la justice française alors (...)
Cameroon: 145 local residents against the Bolloré group dismissed in France
8 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | AFP Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they (...)
Brasil: Região do Matopiba bate recorde histórico de desmatamento no Cerrado
7 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | EcoDebate A análise do IPAM com dados do Prodes mostra ainda que grande parte da (...)
Nouvel épisode judiciaire autour du groupe Bolloré au Cameroun
7 January 2022
07 Jan 2022 | RFI L’enjeu du délibéré, ce vendredi 7 janvier, est de permettre à la justice (...)
Bolloré en Afrique, une série d’affaires judiciaires
7 January 2022
06 Jan 2022 | France4 La justice française doit statuer dans le cadre d’une affaire opposant 145 (...)
The Fiagro and new opportunities for investment in Brazilian agribusiness
7 January 2022
20 Aug 2021 | Gateway to South America Enacted on March 29, 2021, Federal Law 14.130 creates a (...)
Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors
7 January 2022
04 May 2021 | FLA A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be (...)
Guatemala. El Estor: la lucha por la recuperación de la tierra del pueblo Q’eqchi
7 January 2022
05 Jan 2022 | Resumen Latinoamericano Pedro Cuc Pan, es uno de los dirigentes comunitarios, (...)
Argentina: Cambio de uso del suelo en las grandes transacciones de tierras de la region del Chaco Salteño
6 January 2022
06 Jan 2022 | Land Matrix En el marco de su beca doctoral del Programa Land Matrix, Cristian (...)
New report exposes challenge of land conflicts in Indonesia caused by oil palm plantations: the long road to conflict resolution
6 January 2022
27 Oct 2021 | FPP The rapid spread of oil palm plantations across Indonesia has spawned over (...)
A qui appartient la terre au Sénégal ?
6 January 2022
04 Jan 2022 | Seneplus Mbane, Ndengler, Mbodiène, Diass... Les litiges fonciers se multiplient (...)
Aminata Fabba, 2021 Africa Regional Winner, Front Line Defenders Award (video)
6 January 2022
06 Dec 2021 | FLD Aminata Fabba is the Chairlady of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (...)
Brazil’s MST on land occupation and resistance to Bolsonaro
6 January 2022
03 Jan 2022 | Alborada Faced with multiple challenges Brazil's landless workers' movement (MST) (...)
Beginning farmers, farmers of color outbid as farmland prices soar
6 January 2022
06 Jan 2022 | Civil Eats The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural (...)
RDC: dans le Katanga, les paysans souhaitent une plus grande sécurité foncière
5 January 2022
05 Jan 2022 | RFI Dans la région du Katanga, au sud de la RDC, les paysans sont de plus en plus (...)
Nouvelle loi foncière, la catastrophe annoncée pour la paysannerie malgache
5 January 2022
02 Jan 2022 | RFI Les représentants du monde rural interpellent une ultime fois le président de (...)
Siaran pers: Masyarakat adat mendukung Bupati Sorong Selatan menghadapi gugatan perusahaan perkebunan kelapa sawit di PTUN Jayapura
4 January 2022
04 Jan 2022 | Yayasan Pusaka Koalisi masyarakat adat yang terancam menjadi korban perusahaan (...)
Nigeria : Tiamin Rice lance une exploitation rizicole de 10 000 hectares à Bauchi, la plus grande du pays
4 January 2022
16 Dec 2021 | Agence Ecofin La ferme de 10 000 hectares a été aquis auprès du gouvernement pour la (...)
Rectangle à coins arrondis: Note de la position de la CGLTE OA sur le 6eme Sommet UA-EU
4 January 2022
03 Jan 2022 | CGLTE OA L’avenir des pays africains se décident jusqu’à présent à travers des (...)
Argentina: en La Pampa hay 340 mil hectáreas en manos foráneas
3 January 2022
27 Dec 2021 | La Arena Si no se ponen límites a la extranjerización de los cotos de caza y de (...)
Brasil: Quatro casos demonstram na prática a relação entre grilagem e desmatamento no Matopiba
3 January 2022
03 Jan 2022 | Brasil de fato Pesquisa aponta violações na região do Matopiba, que estão fazendo o (...)
Dutch banks finance US$3.5 billion in deforestation projects affecting Liberia
3 January 2022
24 Dec 2021 | Liberian Observer Dutch Banks ING Group, ABN AMRO, and Rabobank have provided 3.1 (...)
CICC: Witness Emmanuel Elong, SYNAPARCAM vs. ING
29 December 2021
15 Dec 2021 | Framer Framed In this video, Emmanuel Elong (SYNAPARCAM) makes the witness (...)
DRC: An abusive palm oil business is shaming the European development banks
23 December 2021
23 Dec 2021 | InfoCongo The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the (...)
Amazonía peruana: menonitas deforestan casi 4 mil hectáreas desde 2017
23 December 2021
15 Dec 2021 | Servindi Deforestación se produjo para establecer cuatro colonias. La última fue (...)
Rural Funds Management acquires Kaiuroo aggregation from the Rohatyn Group
21 December 2021
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21 December 2021
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21 December 2021
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16 December 2021
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16 December 2021
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16 December 2021
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15 December 2021
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15 December 2021
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14 December 2021
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14 December 2021
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14 December 2021
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14 December 2021
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France : Feu vert du Parlement à une meilleure régulation des terres agricoles
14 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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US investors claim CEO of Ukrainian egg and grain producer siphoned off millions in assets
13 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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13 December 2021
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11 December 2021
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10 December 2021
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10 December 2021
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10 December 2021
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10 December 2021
10 Dec 2021 | CIDSE Trois nouveaux rapports sur les expériences autour de Addax (Sierra Leone), (...)
La nouvelle loi foncière malgache 2021-016 : Appel à la vigilance de tous les citoyens malagasy et de tous les intervenants dans le secteur foncier
10 December 2021
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9 December 2021
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9 December 2021
09 Dec 2021 | France 24 Los guerrilleros que firmaron la paz en 2016 se marcharon y tras ellos (...)
Senado de Brasil vota ley sobre acaparamiento de tierras
9 December 2021
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8 December 2021
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Cameroun - Affaire Socapalm vs Bolloré : L’homme d’affaires devant la justice française
8 December 2021
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7 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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Jamaica to ramp up biodiesel production
6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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6 December 2021
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3 December 2021
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3 December 2021
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3 December 2021
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3 December 2021
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3 December 2021
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2 December 2021
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2 December 2021
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2 December 2021
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1 December 2021
30 Nov 2021 | Le Quotidien La Socapalm « inflige des préjudices au quotidien » à ces villageois, a (...)
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1 December 2021
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1 December 2021
30 Nov 2021 | La Provence Quelque 145 Camerounais ont demandé mardi à la justice française de (...)
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1 December 2021
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30 November 2021
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30 November 2021
29 Nov 2021 | SumOfUs Smurfit Kappa, el mayor acaparador de tierras del departamento del Cauca, (...)
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29 November 2021
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29 November 2021
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2021 Front Line Defenders award for human rights defenders at risk
29 November 2021
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29 November 2021
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29 November 2021
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26 November 2021
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25 November 2021
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25 November 2021
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25 November 2021
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Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
25 November 2021
23 Nov 2021 | Global Witness ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced (...)
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24 November 2021
18 Nov 2021 | CRS New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by (...)
Chinese-owned banana plantations fueling exploitation in Myanmar
23 November 2021
23 Nov 2021 | The Irrawaddy Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware (...)
At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land
23 November 2021
22 Nov 2021 | Mongabay Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible (...)
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23 November 2021
23 Nov 2021 | Le Soleil Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut (...)
Ça a chauffé hier à Ngawlé : Des arrestations et des blessés après les manifestations réprimées
23 November 2021
22 Nov 2021 | Le Quotidien La grande superficie est exploitée par des Maures et mise en location (...)
Mauritanie/Accaparement des terres: Ngawlé appelle la communauté internationale à intervenir
23 November 2021
22 Nov 2021 | Senalioune En Mauritanie, les habitants de la localité de Ngawlé, dans le sud du (...)
Calling for a rights-based response to environmental degradation in Madagascar
18 November 2021
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18 November 2021
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Govt open to proposal to develop idle land to drive Malaysia’s economy, says deputy minister
17 November 2021
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17 November 2021
15 Nov 2021 | Petroleum World Elite Agro, which farms tens of thousands of hectares in various (...)
A giant investment firm paid a university to study one of its biggest assets — farmland
16 November 2021
16 Nov 2021 | Illinois Newsroom In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 (...)
Leading agriculture company from UAE eyes investment in Guyana
16 November 2021
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NLC blow as court stops Yala Swamp land allocation to Lake Agro Limited
15 November 2021
14 Nov 2021 | The Star The High Court in Siaya, Kenya, has suspended the intended allocation of (...)
Promotion de l’agro-écologie: La 3e caravane de sensibilisation attendue dans 5 pays de la Cedeao, du 20 Novembre au 11 décembre
15 November 2021
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One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows
15 November 2021
11 Nov 2021 | Mongabay A fifth of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest (...)
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15 November 2021
15 Nov 2021 | The Guardian Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives (...)
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15 November 2021
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African bishops demand end to ‘land grabs’ by private companies
15 November 2021
27 Oct 2021 | National Catholic Reporter Africa’s Catholic bishops have criticized the (...)
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11 November 2021
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10 November 2021
10 Nov 2021 | Weekly Times US private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners, which owns (...)
Fresh row over move to allocate Yala Swamp land to new investor
9 November 2021
23 Oct 2021 | The Standard In Kenya, a row is brewing between local leaders, members of the (...)
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9 November 2021
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8 November 2021
29 Oct 2021 | CNCD Zoom sur l'entreprise belge SIAT
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8 November 2021
03 Nov 2021 | Financial Afrik L’édition 2021 de la Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique (...)
Lutte contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles : le Sénat vient d’adopter une petite loi
5 November 2021
04 Nov 2021 | EurActiv En France, les sénateurs ont adopté une proposition de loi visant à mieux (...)
Business or pleasure: Bill Gates eyes investments in Turkey
3 November 2021
01 Nov 2021 | Daily Sabah Microsoft founder is reportedly looking for 741 acres of farmland to (...)
ANZ payment to displaced Cambodian families brings landmark human rights case to a close
3 November 2021
03 Nov 2021 | IDI Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company (...)
Conference on Land Policy in Africa opens with calls for pro-poor land policies, equal access, and ownership
2 November 2021
01 Nov 2021 | UNECA A surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and (...)
Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders
2 November 2021
28 Oct 2021 | Mongabay The recent arrests of staff of a Ugandan civil society organization, the (...)
Concerns about ag land sales
1 November 2021
01 Nov 2021 | Progressive Farmer Institutional investors and foreign countries alike (...)
Uganda: Militarized corporate agriculture companies are resorting to reprisals to grab land
29 October 2021
29 Oct 2021 | Ugandan Land Defenders Kiryandongo Sugar Company is using soldiers to carry out (...)
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28 October 2021
26 Oct 2021 | Diario Junio No es casualidad que este ataque que exacerban la discriminación (...)
Brasil: Carne e soja pressionam a Terra Indígena Karipuna
28 October 2021
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Brasil: Aprovação do marco temporal ‘premiará’ invasores de terras
28 October 2021
20 Oct 2021 | IHU Se a tese do marco temporal for aprovada pelo STF, o território Xokleng e mais (...)
China agricultural service firms eye overseas market
28 October 2021
27 Oct 2021 | China Daily Trade in agricultural services is a practical option to meet Chinese (...)
Farmland manager Kilter secures $50m mandate from US investor
28 October 2021
27 Oct 2021 | IPE RA A US institutional investor has awarded a US$50m mandate to Australian (...)
African bishops demand end to ‘land grabs’ by private companies
28 October 2021
27 Oct 2021 | Catholic News Service Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (...)
How Chinese massive land grabs deprive the population of their main sources of livelihood (farming and hunting)
27 October 2021
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The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land Matrix
27 October 2021
27 Oct 2021 | GRAIN GRAIN reflects on a new report on large scale land acquisitions by the Land (...)
Former GVL workers receive settlement over illegal dismissal
25 October 2021
25 Oct 2021 | GNN 16 former workers of Golden Veroleum Liberia received their severance (...)
Australia: The closely watched Van Dairy is now selling core farms
25 October 2021
25 Oct 2021 | Farm Online Van Dairy, formerly Moon Lake Investments and Van Diemens' Land (...)
Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa
22 October 2021
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Devoir de vigilance : les militants font le siège de cinq sociétés
22 October 2021
22 Oct 2021 | Le Quotidien Près d’une centaine de manifestants ont organisé jeudi des actions (...)
Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa
22 October 2021
21 Oct 2021 | Mongabay A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for (...)
Top global banks and investors made an estimated $1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses
22 October 2021
21 Oct 2021 | Global Witness Big financial institutions rake in profits bankrolling the (...)
La culture de l’iniquité fiscale: Le rapport Socfin
21 October 2021
20 Oct 2021 | Pain pour le prochain Un nouveau rapport sur la stratégie fiscale du groupe (...)
La culture de l’iniquité fiscale
21 October 2021
20 Oct 2021 | Pain pour le prochain Le groupe Socfin (détenu à 40% par le groupe Bolloré) (...)
Cultivating fiscal inequality: The Socfin report
20 October 2021
20 Oct 2021 | Bread for All A new report on the tax strategy of agribusiness corporation Socfin (...)
Development banks have no business financing agribusiness
20 October 2021
18 Oct 2021 | Various On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups (...)
Guyana woos foreign investors in agriculture, services sectors
19 October 2021
19 Oct 2021 | Demerara Waves President Irfaan Ali and his delegation wooed investors in the UAE (...)
La loi malagasy sur les investissements 2007-036 de nouveau dans l’objectif des dirigeants ?
19 October 2021
19 Oct 2021 | CRAAD-OI et al A Madagascar, alors que beaucoup de citoyens vivent dans (...)
Lettre ouverte - Les banques de développement n’ont pas vocation à financer l’agrobusiness
19 October 2021
18 Oct 2021 | GRAIN À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à (...)
Panamá: Investigan a funcionarios por titulación irregular de tierras
18 October 2021
17 Oct 2021 | La Prensa La investigación inició a raíz de información sobre el acaparamiento y (...)
Grandes Transacciones de Tierras del noreste Brasileño
18 October 2021
14 Oct 2021 | Land Matrix Se resalta el control de territorios en el Noreste de Brasil con un (...)
Karuturi fights receivers over property auction
18 October 2021
15 Oct 2021 | The Standard Cash-strapped Karuturi Flowers in Naivasha is back in court in a bid (...)
Adenia Partners acquiert une part majoritaire dans une entreprise floricole au Kenya
18 October 2021
13 Oct 2021 | Agence Ecofin La firme de private equity a acquis une part majoritaire au capital (...)
Audio: Dr Sophie Chao - Papua, food and racism
18 October 2021
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Podcast: Who benefits from resource extraction in DRC?
14 October 2021
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Hungary backs down from Slovak land acquisition plan after fiery criticism
14 October 2021
14 Oct 2021 | Hungary Today The Hungarian government has officially canceled its plan to set up (...)
Uganda: A decade of land grabs with impunity
14 October 2021
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14 October 2021
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The soya curse: Is Ukraine facing the same fate as the Amazon?
14 October 2021
14 Oct 2021 | Open Democracy The EU is trying to move soya production from Brazil to eastern (...)
Politically connected firm seeks to profit as Indonesian government cuts down orangutan habitat
14 October 2021
14 Oct 2021 | The Gecko Project The Indonesian government has stripped back rules protecting (...)
What happened to land grabs in Africa?
13 October 2021
13 Oct 2021 | Africa is a Country More than a decade since the surge in large-scale land (...)
Droits humains et environnement: les Belges veulent responsabiliser les entreprises
13 October 2021
13 Oct 2021 | Le Soir 86 % des citoyens interrogés par le CNCD-11.11.11 et European Coalition (...)
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12 October 2021
12 Oct 2021 | RIAO-RDC En RD Congo, plusieurs villages sont à ce jour vide, la population (...)
Palm oil: new violence against local communities in the Congo
12 October 2021
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The true price of palm oil
12 October 2021
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Kempen raises insurer money for sustainable farmland fund
12 October 2021
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Fueling human rights violations: Consequences of EU and Belgian biofuel policies in northern Peru
12 October 2021
21 Sep 2021 | Oxfam Belgique EU policies are fueling land and water grabbing, air pollution, (...)
Droit à la terre, à l’eau et l’agroécologie paysanne : Une lutte commune
12 October 2021
07 Oct 2021 | CGLTE OA La Convergence Globale des luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau organise la 3ème (...)
Souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique du Nord : les ravages du Covid-19
8 October 2021
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8 October 2021
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Angola: protocole d’accord tripartite pour la production de biocarburants d’origine végétale
7 October 2021
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7 October 2021
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Indigenous Papuan women and the struggle for land
5 October 2021
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Invisible hands? European corporations and the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes
4 October 2021
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Nigeria looks to revive ailing palm oil sector
4 October 2021
04 Oct 2021 | AFP Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the (...)
Comment des entreprises et banques européennes participent à la destruction des forêts et savanes du Brésil
4 October 2021
04 Oct 2021 | Basta L’Amazonie et la région du Cerrado font face à des destructions dévastatrices (...)
Peuples indigènes : le cri du cœur du cacique Ninawa à Emmanuel Macron
4 October 2021
01 Oct 2021 | Ouest France L'administration Bolsonaro travaille à légaliser et institutionnaliser (...)
Chaos à l’aéroport de Farnborough : les manifestants bloquent les entrées des vols de l’« élite super-riche »
4 October 2021
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3 October 2021
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3 October 2021
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Agri-business – À Madagascar de transformer l’essai
1 October 2021
01 Oct 2021 | Express de Madagascar "Malgré les terres exploitables, les dizaines d’années (...)
What is ’green land grabbing’ - and why is it surging in Brazil?
30 September 2021
30 Sep 2021 | Reuters In Brazil, green land grabbing allows owners to legally deforest a higher (...)
113 groups push TIAA to divest from fossil fuels & stop land grabs, calling TIAA’s net zero by 2050 plan “wildly inadequate” for the climate crisis
30 September 2021
29 Sep 2021 | TIAA-Divest! et al In a letter laying out 6 clear demands, the groups call on (...)
Land Matrix Analytical Report III: Taking stock of the global land rush
30 September 2021
27 Sep 2021 | Land Matrix More than 10 years since a surge in large-scale land acquisitions (...)
Paraguay: El Senado aprueba Ley de Criminalización de la Lucha por la Tierra
30 September 2021
24 Sep 2021 | BASE-IS Con esta Ley los representantes del sector terrateniente en el congreso (...)
Land-grabs – the new red flag for Uzbek cotton sector
29 September 2021
19 Feb 2021 | Apparel Insider The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts (...)
"Notre addiction aux agrocarburants bafoue les droits humains au Pérou"
29 September 2021
28 Sep 2021 | Le Vif La production d'éthanol à base de canne à sucre dans le nord du Pérou (...)
DBJ first Japanese investor to back a food-focused PE fund through Proterra Investment.
29 September 2021
27 Sep 2021 | GAI The Development Bank of Japan is the first in Japan to agree to invest in a (...)
Bilan de la ruée vers les terres à l’échelle mondiale
29 September 2021
28 Sep 2021 | Land Matrix Troisième rapport de la Land Matrix Initiative
Les dérives de l’aide française au développement
29 September 2021
27 Sep 2021 | Mediapart L’opacité qui entoure l’utilisation des fonds de l’AFD est connue et lui (...)
En RDC, l’huile de palme au mépris des droits humains
29 September 2021
27 Sep 2021 | Mediapart En République démocratique du Congo, l’AFD a financé pendant huit ans une (...)
Arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of human rights defender Franck Balimbasa
29 September 2021
27 Sep 2021 | Frontline Defenders A human rights defender who is actively supporting (...)
En Colombie, les accaparements violents blanchis par le marché
29 September 2021
26 Sep 2021 | LVSL Le conflit armé en Colombie a façonné la conjoncture contemporaine des (...)
La loi contre l’accaparement des terres au Sénat en novembre
29 September 2021
24 Sep 2021 | La France Agricole En France, la proposition de loi du député Jean-Bernard (...)
Argentina: “Que los pequeños productores no tengamos tierra afecta a todo el pueblo”
24 September 2021
23 Sep 2021 | Huequen Este lunes 20 y martes 21 de septiembre la Unión de Trabajadorxs de la (...)
Brasil: PODCAST – Aqui é meu lugar: a resistência das comunidades rurais na proteção dos territórios
24 September 2021
23 Sep 2021 | Rede Social Na segunda temporada da série em áudio “Aqui é meu lugar”, as pessoas que (...)
Dreams, dollars and destruction of a rainforest
23 September 2021
23 Sep 2021 | Newsroom An Auckland property developer is involved in a company linked to (...)
A dangerous place for women. stories of Indigenous Women working in oil palm plantations in Papua
23 September 2021
23 Sep 2021 | WRM Oil palm plantations are one of the most unsafe spaces for women, not only (...)
Oil palm monoculture in Ixcán Municipality, Guatemala: A story of dispossession and deception
23 September 2021
22 Sep 2021 | WRM When palm companies arrived in Guatemala's northern lowlands, they did not (...)
The Sangha Region in the Republic of Congo
23 September 2021
22 Sep 2021 | WRM The heavily forested Sangha region in the Republic of Congo is almost (...)
Women, land, plantations and oppression in Sierra Leone
23 September 2021
22 Sep 2021 | WRM Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm (...)
La colère des populations riveraines de Dizangue contre la certification RSPO de l’agro-industriel SAFACAM
22 September 2021
21 Sep 2021 | Ruralinfo.net « Il est difficile de comprendre comment SAFACAM a pu obtenir un (...)
Les conflits fonciers et leur résolution à l’échelle locale dans un contexte de marchandisation de la terre
22 September 2021
22 Sep 2021 | Foncier&développement Les conflits fonciers et leur résolution à l’échelle (...)
Brazil’s Cosan buys stake in Grupo Radar for $278 mln
21 September 2021
21 Sep 2021 | Reuters Brazilian sugar company Cosan has purchased a stake in the land holding (...)
Perusahaan melanggar UU larangan praktik monopoli
21 September 2021
21 Sep 2021 | Yayasan Pusaka Perusahaan kelapa sawit PT Sorong Agro Sawitindo dan PT Papua (...)
New food security alliances discussed during H.E Mariam Almheiri’s visit to Ukraine following updates to legislation on foreign agricultural investment
21 September 2021
16 Sep 2021 | Zawya New food security alliances discussed during H.E Mariam Almheiri's visit to (...)
Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day
20 September 2021
20 Sep 2021 | Ugandan land defenders In Uganda, land grabbed by local land brokers are (...)
En Afrique : pollueurs et pilleurs, le droit de dire NON
20 September 2021
20 Sep 2021 | CCFD Ce film d’animation raconte l’histoire des vies brisées par la violence et (...)
Pourquoi des scientifiques suisses boycottent le sommet sur l’alimentation de l’ONU
20 September 2021
20 Sep 2021 | swissinfo «Le sommet sur l'alimentation des Nations unies repose sur un énoncé du (...)
Palm oil giant’s industry-beating ESG score hides razed forests
18 September 2021
16 Sep 2021 | Bloomberg In Liberia, a unit of the world’s second-largest palm oil company has (...)
Déforestation intensive pour l’huile de palme certifiée Bio Suisse de Sâo Tomé
16 September 2021
09 Sep 2021 | Uniterre Pour l'organisation paysanne Uniterre, il est à craindre que Bio Suisse (...)
Aliko Dangote : mauvaise nouvelle pour le milliardaire nigérian
15 September 2021
15 Sep 2021 | L-FRII Dangote Sugar Company, propriété de l’homme le plus riche d’Afrique, Aliko (...)
Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa
15 September 2021
03 Jul 2021 | Channels TV Farmers gathered to protest the seizure of their lands by a sugar (...)
Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa
15 September 2021
03 Jul 2021 | Channels TV Farmers in Adamawa State Nigeria have staged a protest against the (...)
Dangote company’s industrial waste destroys farmlands in Adamawa, firm threatens military action against protesters
15 September 2021
12 Sep 2021 | Sahara Reporters Dangote Sugar Company, owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko (...)
Uganda government ignores its directive on COVID evictions, evicts thousands of smallholder farmers, artisanal miners.
14 September 2021
14 Sep 2021 | Ugandan land defenders With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda, poor families (...)
Brasil. Exterminador do futuro: Estrondo inicia desmatamento gigante no Cerrado
14 September 2021
03 Sep 2021 | IHU Grupo agrícola, que responde na justiça por apropriação indevida de terras, (...)
Open letter to African Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund: Address reprisals against Paten Clan
10 September 2021
09 Sep 2021 | https://rightsindevelopment.org/news/open-letter-to-african-development-bank-and-nordi
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
9 September 2021
05 Aug 2021 | Roll Call Farmland grabs by US companies and pension funds are being ignored as (...)
« Bolsonaro est en train de faire adopter un arsenal législatif qui démantèlera les droits des Indiens sur leurs terres »
9 September 2021
08 Sep 2021 | Le Monde Depuis le 22 août, 6 000 Indiens du Brésil, issus de 170 peuples (...)
New Forests, AIMCo to buy Australian farmland from Macquarie
8 September 2021
06 Sep 2021 | IPE New Forests and Alberta Investment Management Corporation have agreed to buy (...)
“Find, fix and finish him”
7 September 2021
07 Sep 2021 | The Point Nigerian grassroots defender Ajele Sunday wanted dead for helping (...)
Landgrabs at gunpoint escalate in Uganda as the operations of a defender of affected communities are suspended
7 September 2021
07 Sep 2021 | Ugandan land defenders Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has (...)
Macquarie Agriculture’s Lawson Grains sells to foreigners
6 September 2021
06 Sep 2021 | Weekly TImes Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson (...)
Group gets nod to invest $14.2m in Ekiti’s agro-allied industry
6 September 2021
31 Aug 2021 | The Guardian Exxess Group will invest US$14.2 million in large scale cassava (...)
“Stevia,” by Helena Zelic
6 September 2021
18 Aug 2021 | Capire “Stevia” is a poem written as a tribute to the resistance of the Haitian (...)
Argentina: Somos Monte denuncia destrucción de bosque y acaparamiento de tierras en Chaco
3 September 2021
02 Sep 2021 | Momarandú El grupo ambientalista Somos Monte denunció destrucción de bosque nativo y (...)
Protestan en Honduras contra la cesión de territorios a inversionistas
3 September 2021
31 Aug 2021 | Avispa Este lunes (30), miles de personas se movilizaron en múltiples ciudades de (...)
Centrafrique : Castel active son comité d’éthique
3 September 2021
24 Aug 2021 | Jeune Afrique Une ONG américaine affirme que la Sucrerie africaine de (...)
Panen melimpah, pemerintah bakal tambah 2000 hektare lahan di food estate Humbahas Sumut
3 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | IDX Channel Sekitar 2.000 hektare lahan tanam akan ditambah di Food Estate (FE) (...)
Le congrès mondial de la nature alternatif s’organise autour de l’approche "décoloniale" pour conserver la biodiversité
2 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | Ladepeche.fr Les solutions fondées sur la nature détournent l'attention des vraies (...)
Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended
2 September 2021
25 Aug 2021 | Mongabay Calls are mounting from within the government and civil society for (...)
Selangor sultan owned Kuala Langat land grab company
2 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | Sarawak Report Research by Sarawak Report has revealed unreported ownership by (...)
AfCFTA: Nasarawa Marks 270,000 Hectres for Commercial Agriculture
1 September 2021
30 Aug 2021 | This Day Dangote Group has taken 70,000 ha, Flour Mills of Nigeria has 20,000, (...)
New overseas buyers of meatworks in WA aim to boost exports
1 September 2021
30 Aug 2021 | Farm Weekly Major Brazilian meatpacker Minerva Foods and part-owner Saudi (...)
On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft
1 September 2021
11 Aug 2021 | Mongabay Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and (...)
Malaysia’s pilgrimage fund weighs taking palm oil firm private
1 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | Bloomberg Malaysia’s pilgrimage fund is considering taking its agricultural firm (...)
Landlords, corporations, still control vast tracts of agricultural lands – farmers
1 September 2021
13 Aug 2021 | Bulatlat In a July 22 statement, KMP released a list of existing landholdings (...)
Sierra Leone: MALOA is disappointed by UNDP/Fambul Tok meeting on 18th August 2021
1 September 2021
19 Aug 2021 | MALOA So-called MALOA representatives at the UNDP-sponsored meeting were (...)
Amaryllias Farmland - India’s first tech-based online platform for managed farmland ownership and portfolio diversification
1 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | ANI Amaryllias Farmland is a new tech-based online platform which allows one to (...)
Senate Labour committee chair suspects malice in death of LAC employee who was minced by rubber processing machine
1 September 2021
01 Sep 2021 | FrontPageAfrica The Chairman of the Senate’s Labour Committee says that (...)
Au Liberia, le gouvernement ferme l’usine de caoutchouc LAC
31 August 2021
30 Aug 2021 | Commodafrica Suite à un accident travail survenu à l’usine de caoutchouc de la (...)
Le toilettage de la loi 1964 s’impose
30 August 2021
30 Aug 2021 | SudQuotidien Face aux tensions et conflits fonciers au Sénégal, des experts (...)
México: Acaparamiento de tierras en la península de Yucatán
27 August 2021
23 Aug 2021 | Nexos Desde hace dos décadas, la Península de Yucatán se ha convertido en un lugar (...)
Solum Partners acquires majority stake in Monte Vista Farming Company
24 August 2021
19 Aug 2021 | GAI Solum Partners has made its second investment since its spin-out from Harvard (...)
Koala fund chews into demand for developer offsets
24 August 2021
15 Aug 2021 | AFR Investment platform iPartners is pushing into the agricultural sector, (...)
Les indigènes brésiliens manifestent contre des projets de loi
24 August 2021
24 Aug 2021 | Heidi News Depuis lundi, des milliers de membres des communautés indigènes du (...)
Karuturi flower farm assets’ sale begins
24 August 2021
18 Aug 2021 | The Star 3,000 former workers of the once flourishing Naivasha based flower farm (...)
Who really benefits from the creation of a land market in Ukraine?
24 August 2021
06 Aug 2021 | Oakland Institute In the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe,” agriculture (...)
Golden Veroleum Liberia comes under spotlight again for not living up to MOU
23 August 2021
12 Aug 2021 | Independent Probe New analysis from community exercises indicate palm oil company (...)
Danes plan bigger output at China RAS farm
23 August 2021
23 Aug 2021 | Fishfarming Expert Nordic Aqua Partners has increased planned production at its (...)
In fertile Ukraine, a 20-year freeze on the sale of farmland is lifted — with uncertain consequences
23 August 2021
22 Aug 2021 | RFE Whether foreigners should be allowed to buy land is one of the bones of (...)
New investor for dozens of former dairy farms converting to irrigated cropping
23 August 2021
23 Aug 2021 | Farm Weekly A controlling interest in the Murray River Land Trust Portfolio of (...)
Grandes transacciones de tierras en Ecuador
20 August 2021
03 Aug 2021 | Landmatrix En este documento se presentan datos actualizados sobre Grandes (...)
Nuestra tierra, nuestra naturaleza: el acaparamiento de tierras en el mundo, a debate internacional
20 August 2021
30 Jul 2021 | Periodistas en español En esta reunión, representantes indígenas y ponentes de unos (...)
México: Mujeres indígenas y campesinas se pronuncian ante la violación de sus derechos por la palma africana
20 August 2021
19 Aug 2021 | Chiapas Paralelo En Chiapas, existen más de 60 mil hectáreas de monocultivos de (...)
Soudan : 100 mille hectares de terres agricoles allouées aux exploitants turcs
19 August 2021
13 Aug 2021 | KUNA La Turquie a le droit d’exploiter 100 mille hectares de terres agricoles (...)
Turkey, Sudan vow to boost relations, lift trade volume to $2B
18 August 2021
13 Aug 2021 | Daily Sabah At a bilateral meeting, Sudan and Turkey reiterate the agreement (...)
Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong
18 August 2021
11 Aug 2021 | Political Ecology Network In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of (...)
The Fiagro and new opportunities for investment in Brazilian agribusiness
17 August 2021
28 Jul 2021 | Chambers One view in the market is that the new Law permits (by not prohibiting) (...)
Malaysia: FGV inks deal to explore investment in integrated dairy farm biz
17 August 2021
16 Aug 2021 | The Edge FGV Holdings Bhd has inked a collaboration to explore investment in an (...)
Nigeria: Edo allocates 57,000 hectares to oil palm investors
17 August 2021
16 Aug 2021 | The Guardian Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his government has (...)
Australia: Land price push from family or corporate farms
17 August 2021
13 Aug 2021 | The Land CBRE Agribusiness managing director David Goodfellow says large (...)
Greenpeace: los satélites confirman que la deforestación en la Amazonia sigue fuera de control
7 August 2021
06 Aug 2021 | América Economía Según ha informado este viernes Greenpeace, el pasado martes la (...)
Bolsonaro’s ’land grab’ bill passes Brazil’s lower house
5 August 2021
04 Aug 2021 | Reuters Brazil's lower house of Congress passed a land bill on Tuesday that is (...)
UAE keen to invest in Indonesia’s sugar industry: ministry
5 August 2021
02 Aug 2021 | Antara The United Arab Emirates has expressed interest in investing in (...)
Australia: Supercharged ag investors see value in more than farmland
5 August 2021
04 Aug 2021 | QCL Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund (...)
Proterra Investment Partners is selling its Corinella Group farm portfolio
5 August 2021
03 Aug 2021 | GAI Global investment company Proterra Investment Partners is divesting its (...)
Why UN Food systems summit is irrelevant to Uganda’s smallholder farmers: A case of capitalism pushing the poor away from family land
3 August 2021
03 Aug 2021 | Witness Radio Uganda still grapples with mass forced evictions being aided by (...)
AgDevco expands in Mozambique, invests $3 million to develop banana industry
3 August 2021
29 Jul 2021 | GAI UK-based social impact and sub-Saharan-focused investor AgDevCo announced its (...)
Lao farmers driven from their land by foreign concessions, rising costs
3 August 2021
07 Jul 2021 | RFA Flooded farms, land grabs, and production costs are driving Lao villagers (...)
La Corée du sud tente de revenir à Madagascar
2 August 2021
02 Aug 2021 | Madagascar Matin Le projet de transformer Madagascar en futur grenier de l’océan (...)
Currabubula Station at centre of Chinese ponzi scheme, corruption scandal
30 July 2021
29 Jul 2021 | The Land An Australian cattle farm was used by Chinese-owned company United World (...)
US, Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil
30 July 2021
29 Jul 2021 | Mongabay Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. (...)
Karuturi for sale
28 July 2021
26 Jul 2021 | Citizen News Banks receive nod to auction Karuturi assets in (...)
4 foreign funds invested in Adani firms have history of wrong bets: Report
28 July 2021
28 Jul 2021 | The Week Elara India Opportunities Fund, which Indian lawmakers suspect may be (...)
Landowners protest over delayed report in southern Sierra Leone
28 July 2021
21 Jul 2021 | Politico Executive members of an organisation representing landowners engaged in (...)
End of an era for Karuturi farm as court okays auction of assets
23 July 2021
22 Jul 2021 | The Standard Seven years after the farm was placed under receivership due to (...)
Spéculation foncière et accaparement des terres au Burkina Faso, le CES tire la sonnette d’alarme
22 July 2021
21 Jul 2021 | Commodafrica « La conviction est que si nous continuons dans cette dynamique, les (...)
Gabon : L’Etat ne vend pas des terres aux étrangers
22 July 2021
22 Jul 2021 | Gabon Review Alors que l’accaparement des terres au Gabon fait jaser, le ministre (...)
Accaparement des terres au Burkina Faso : « Le gouvernement reste responsable » (Issoufou Porgo)
22 July 2021
16 Jul 2021 | Burkina 24 La Confédération Paysanne du Faso (CPF) tire la sonnette d’alarme sur (...)
New booklet: Nine reasons to say NO to contract farming with palm oil companies
21 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | WRM Why do peasant farmers lose out when they produce for the palm oil industry? (...)
Chinese companies corralling land around world
20 July 2021
13 Jul 2021 | Nikkei In Japan, concerns are growing that emerging and developing countries, as (...)
European pension managers go big for indoor ag as Equilibrium closes $1.1bn CEA fund
20 July 2021
08 Jul 2021 | AgFund News CEFF II raised $1 billion from a group of institutional investors, (...)
This Is Our Land: Why reject the privatisation of customary land
20 July 2021
20 Jul 2021 | ActNow PNG New factsheet from ActNowPNG breaks down 6 myths used to justify the (...)
How farmland fits in the investment portfolio of the future
20 July 2021
16 Jul 2021 | GAI Global AgInvesting held its 13th annual gathering in the US with a special (...)
Fonterra completes sale of China JV farms
20 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | COOP News Dairy giant Fonterra has sold two joint venture farms in China to (...)
Danish investor in farming land continues divestment of Romanian properties
20 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | Romania Insider The Danish farming company FirstFarms announced that it reached (...)
Dole plans Philippine expansion
20 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | BusinessWorld Dole Sunshine Co, which grows pineapples and other produce across (...)
China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down.
20 July 2021
20 Jul 2021 | Politico Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from (...)
Neuf raisons de dire NON à l’agriculture contractuelle des entreprises d’huile de palme
20 July 2021
16 Jul 2021 | WRM L’objectif principal des entreprises industrielles d’huile de palme est de (...)
Stanbic to auction Karuturi assets over Sh1.8bn loan
19 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | Business Daily Stanbic Bank, in Kenya, is now free to auction assets of Karuturi (...)
Peut-on contraindre les multinationales à respecter les droits humains ?
19 July 2021
19 Jul 2021 | France Culture De l’accaparement des terres au travail forcé, de plus en plus de (...)
Bunong, Bollore land dispute overruled by French tribunal
16 July 2021
15 Jul 2021 | Phnom Penh Post A joint statement issued by 97 Bunong indigenous families in (...)
What are the effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa on selected economic and social indicators?
15 July 2021
30 Jun 2021 | Misereor New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the (...)
Korindo: Korean palm oil giant stripped of sustainability status
15 July 2021
15 Jul 2021 | BBC Korean palm oil giant, Korindo has been rejected from the world's green (...)
Are we hungry for change for genuinely transforming food systems?
13 July 2021
12 Jul 2021 | Modern Ghana While the governments chant the mantra of "leaving no one behind", (...)
La première entreprise certifiée durable au Cameroun suscite le tollé des communautés rurales
13 July 2021
13 Jul 2021 | VOA Afrique "Depuis 1897 que nous avons cédé nos terres à la Safacam, elle ne nous a (...)
The oil palm: a sad harvest
13 July 2021
13 Jul 2021 | Financieel Dagblad Investigation into the controversial palm oil sector in (...)
The global food economy, peasants, the state, capital and international organizations: Unequal power relations
13 July 2021
13 Jul 2021 | In this short paper, we discuss the various ways in which scholars and activists (...)
Cameroun: Les communautés contestent la certification RSPO de Safacam
12 July 2021
09 Jul 2021 | NewsUpFront « Les auditeurs constitués par Safacam ont fait tout, sauf ce qu’il (...)
When Noam Léandri from Angers was investigating land grabbing in Cambodia
12 July 2021
05 Jul 2021 | Ouest France The court of Nanterre has just dismissed 80 Bunong farmers who (...)
The financier farmland rush is bad for racial equity and the environment
9 July 2021
08 Jul 2021 | Food & Power Banks, retirement funds, retail investors, boutique asset (...)
Chine. La renommée des vignobles français attire les investisseurs
8 July 2021
08 Jul 2021 | Ouest France La Chine semble avoir ralenti dans sa course au foncier en (...)
Une petite révolution en Ukraine qui va lever l’interdiction sur les transactions de terres agricoles
8 July 2021
08 Jul 2021 | Courrier d'Europe Centrale Le moratoire qui interdit la vente des terres (...)
Land grabbing in Cambodia: 80 Bunongs sue in France, but their case is dismissed at first instance
8 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | Le Monde This community of itinerant farmers believes it was robbed of nearly (...)
Schweppes to ramp up production with US$35m investment
8 July 2021
05 Jul 2021 | The Herald Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited has undertaken to invest US$35 million in (...)
L’accaparement des terres dans la province du Sud-Kivu : expériences paysannes
7 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | CETRI Cette étude détaille trois cas concrets d’accaparements de (...)
Au Brésil, l’impact de la viande vendue par Casino sur la forêt et les habitants de l’Amazonie
7 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | CCFD-TS C’est en documentant la déforestation en Amazonie, mais aussi l’esclavage (...)
Le premier “contre-congrès” international sur la conservation de la nature dénoncera “le plus grand accaparement de terres du monde”
7 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | Survival International Le premier grand congrès international qui s’intéressera à (...)
Accaparement de terres au Cambodge : 80 Bunong agissant en justice en France déboutés en première instance
7 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | Le Monde Cette affaire illustre la difficulté des peuples autochtones à faire (...)
ProSAVANA市民社会報告書2013(ProSAVANA Civil Society Report 2013_jpn)
7 July 2021
07 Jul 2021 | ProSAVANA市民社会報告書2013ー現地調査に基づく提言 ProSAVANA Civil Society Report 2013: Facts and Findings (...)
L’agro-industriel Safacam, filiale camerounaise de Socfin, essuie des protestations contre sa certification Rspo
6 July 2021
05 Jul 2021 | Investir au Cameroun Pour le leader communautaire Michel Essonga : « Il est (...)
Sénégal : Keur Moussa dit NON à la spoliation de ses terres par Fili Fili
5 July 2021
28 Jun 2021 | Thies Info Le collectif And Defar Keur Moussa a battu le macadam ce week-end pour (...)
Cambodia. Standing up to Bolloré, the Bunong ethnic group mourns its forest
5 July 2021
04 Jul 2021 | Ouest France The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land (...)
Court dismisses Cambodian farmers accusing Bolloré group of land grabbing
5 July 2021
02 Jul 2021 | France24 Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on (...)
Cambodge. Face à Bolloré, l’ethnie Bunong pleure sa forêt
5 July 2021
04 Jul 2021 | Ouest France Les paysans cambodgiens ont été déboutés par le tribunal de Nanterre, (...)
La justice déboute des paysans cambodgiens accusant le groupe Bolloré d’accaparement de terres
5 July 2021
02 Jul 2021 | France 24 Le tribunal français a trouvé qu' "aucun des 80 demandeurs et (...)
Argentina: Tierras Estatales Transformadas en Grandes Transacciones de Tierras
3 July 2021
01 Jul 2021 | Land Matrix El informe aborda dos casos de estudios, que representan cuatro (...)
México: Acaparamiento y explotación de tierras con fines de lucro afecta el entorno ecológico
3 July 2021
25 Jun 2021 | El Universal Al entrar a las colonias menonitas, los caminos se vuelven de (...)
Socfin’s RSPO certification challenged by affected communities in Cameroon
1 July 2021
01 Jul 2021 | CED Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the (...)
La certification RSPO de SOCFIN contestée par les communautés riveraines au Cameroun
1 July 2021
01 Jul 2021 | CED Aujourd'hui, des communautés locales annoncent leur désapprobation totale du (...)
As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land
30 June 2021
30 Jun 2021 | Witness Radio As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational (...)
Corporate agriculture and agricultural land grab: Farmers’ call to action
30 June 2021
20 Jun 2021 | PKMT Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek calls for an end to neoliberal agricultural (...)
Libre-échange: le scepticisme croît au sein du Mercosur
30 June 2021
30 Jun 2021 | swissinfo «Les communautés autochtones au Brésil, chassées de leurs terres, n’ont (...)
Japfa to acquire two dairy farms for $165.7 million to strengthen foothold in China
30 June 2021
30 Jun 2021 | Straits Times Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary (...)
Sierra Tropical limited invests in pineapple plantation
30 June 2021
30 Jun 2021 | Politico Online The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently (...)
Corporate farmer buys top Yuna farm
30 June 2021
26 Jun 2021 | Farm Weekly An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension (...)
San Juan La Noria: the community abandoned to palm oil development
30 June 2021
25 Jun 2021 | China Dialogue The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations (...)
Droits fonciers des peuples autochtones : les juges et la société civile revoient le cadre juridique
29 June 2021
29 Jun 2021 | Cameroon Magazine Am Cameroun, les peuples autochtones des forêts voient leurs (...)
Food estate di Papua: Perampasan ruang berkedok ketahanan pangan?
29 June 2021
28 Jun 2021 | Walhi Perjuangan panjang dan suara lantang Orang Asli Papua untuk merebut daulat (...)
Human rights due diligence legislation: New hope for victims of land grabs in Cambodia?
25 June 2021
24 Jun 2021 | Business and Human Rights Research Centre For too long, consumer brands have (...)
Los puntos clave de la Ley de delitos ambientales aprobada en Colombia
25 June 2021
24 Jun 2021 | El Espectador La pena para quien incurra en el delito de deforestación aumentará (...)
Brasil: Venda de terras para estrangeiros divide ruralistas
24 June 2021
23 Jun 2021 | IHU De um lado, setores do agronegócio querem liberar a venda de imóveis rurais no (...)
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24 June 2021
24 Jun 2021 | Oakland Institute Une bataille juridique a éclaté sur la propriété des Plantations et (...)
Foreign companies to invest more than $500 Million in Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector, chemical industry
22 June 2021
19 Jun 2021 | Astana Times Newly announced foreign investments in agriculture from Dutch, (...)
One of the most fertile nations wants to feed the world
22 June 2021
20 Jun 2021 | Bloomberg Two-thirds of polled Ukrainians are against opening up the country's (...)
Mauritanie: vers la fin de la spoliation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal
22 June 2021
21 Jun 2021 | Le 360 Afrique Le président de la Mauritanie annule l'octroi de 3 200 ha à l'AAAID (...)
Kuramo Capital Management embroiled in a legal battle over ownership of PHC Oil palm plantations in the DRC
22 June 2021
22 Jun 2021 | Oakland Institute After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from (...)
Arla builds dairy farm in Nigeria to support local milk production
22 June 2021
22 Jun 2021 | Dairy Reporter Located in Kaduna State, the 200-hectare farm, scheduled to open (...)
La Socapalm accusée de pratiques néocoloniales dans ses plantations
21 June 2021
20 Jun 2021 | EcoMatin La filiale du groupement Palmcam (Palmeraies du Cameroun) est sur le (...)
Under the spotlight: Chinese banks’ risky agribusiness portfolio
18 June 2021
07 Jun 2021 | Global Witness China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural (...)
More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
18 June 2021
10 Jun 2021 | Witness Radio Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company (...)
A senior lands officer is arrested in connection to the Kiryandongo district land grab
18 June 2021
17 Jun 2021 | Witness Radio The stolen land belonged to families that are part of the 35000 (...)
RDC : le Parlement refuse de lever l’immunité de Augustin Matata Ponyo cité dans le scandale agroindustriel de Bukanga-Lonzo
17 June 2021
16 Jun 2021 | Agence Ecofin D’après l’Inspection générale des finances, un ancien chef de (...)
Congo Senate declines to lift former PM’s immunity over failed agro project
16 June 2021
16 Jun 2021 | Reuters Congo's Senate on Tuesday rejected a request by prosecutors to lift (...)
En Indonésie, l’huile de palme contre le climat et les droits humains
15 June 2021
12 Jun 2021 | Reporterre L’huile de palme nuit gravement aux droits humains, selon un rapport de (...)
Mundubat y COAG denuncian que Marruecos explota ilegalmente terreno fértil del Sahara
12 June 2021
08 Jun 2021 | El Faradio Con emporios empresariales participados por Mohamed VI y el propio (...)
El acaparamiento global de tierras se pinta de verde
12 June 2021
07 Jun 2021 | GRAIN Quienes actualmente controlan los flujos financieros del mundo no son (...)
Ribeirinha community conquers collective right to land
10 June 2021
10 Jun 2021 | Rede Social The victory is a result of the organization of the Collective of (...)
Stop Harvard Land Grabs Public Forum
10 June 2021
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Israeli conglomerate set to invest $60M in Colombian Hass avocado production
9 June 2021
08 Jun 2021 | Fresh Fruit Portal Managro, an Israeli-based agricultural investment (...)
McDonald’s french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland
9 June 2021
08 Jun 2021 | NBC Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the largest (...)
Moïse Katumbi retourne à la terre
7 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | Financial Afrik Prospère homme d’affaires dans le domaine minier, le trading, la (...)
Land deals meant to improve food security may have hurt
4 June 2021
19 Jan 2021 | PNAS Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve (...)
Estudio revela que palma aceitera y soya se cultivan en bosques talados de manera ilegal
4 June 2021
04 Jun 2021 | Mongabay En Colombia "Claramente los grandes acaparadadores y compradores hacen (...)
Ligações perigosas: fundos de pensão internacionais, incêndios e grilagens no Matopiba
4 June 2021
01 Jun 2021 | Agro e Fogo O Incra e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia (TJ-BA) reconheceram que dois (...)
Ousmane Kane : "Nous ne pouvons plus laisser ces terres [de la Vallée] sans valorisation"
4 June 2021
31 May 2021 | Golal Media Le ministre mauritanien des Affaires économiques et de la Promotion (...)
Mauritanie : la campagne d’accaparement des terres de la Vallée est lancée
4 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | Senalioune.com Dans une interview accordée à un hebdomadaire étranger, le ministre (...)
Indonesia: Expanding palm oil operations bring harm
4 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | Human Rights Watch The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of (...)
West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil
4 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | Mongabay Local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province has revoked permits (...)
Saudi-backed group exporting grain
4 June 2021
04 Jun 2021 | The Land SALIC owns a whopping aggregation in Western Australia, Merredin Farms, (...)
University of Iowa faculty demand TIAA accountability
4 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | The Gazette Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that (...)
Indonésie : Des plantations de palmiers à huile aux effets nocifs
4 June 2021
03 Jun 2021 | HRW Les dommages causés à des communautés par une plantation de palmiers à huile (...)
Land conflicts in Brazil break record under Bolsonaro
4 June 2021
04 Jun 2021 | Mongabay Land conflicts in Brazil broke a record in 2020 for the second year (...)
Dos cadenas de supermercados en Colombia estarían propiciando deforestación en Amazonia
29 May 2021
28 May 2021 | RCN Radio La Agencia de Investigación Ambiental reseñó que "las débiles instituciones (...)
Argentina: Un modelo injusto para una alimentación no sustentable
29 May 2021
28 May 2021 | ENI Argentina Hasta agosto de 2019, nuestro país registró un total de 217 casos de (...)
Liberia: Hundreds of sacked GVL employees still waiting for jobs; company blames the pandemic
27 May 2021
26 May 2021 | FrontPageAfrica “GVL came here and told our people to give it land so it can (...)
Droit de circuler dans les plantations Socapalm
26 May 2021
25 May 2021 | Synaparcam Dans un échange de lettres, la Synergie nationale des paysans et (...)
Des ONG demandent à l’ONU de ne plus travailler avec le groupe Bolloré
26 May 2021
25 May 2021 | AFP Des organisations accusent la société Socfin, dont le groupe Bolloré est le (...)
World Bank sees land reform as key to Ukraine’s prosperity
25 May 2021
25 May 2021 | Ukrinform World Bank's regional director says opening up the land market will (...)
Ireland: Now Cuckoo funds target farms after being deterred by new housing bulk-buy limits
25 May 2021
24 May 2021 | Extra.ie Rural 'vulture' funds have been attracted by rising profits in land (...)
Une loi pour réguler l’accès aux terres agricoles… qui rate le coche
25 May 2021
25 May 2021 | Reporterre En France, l’accaparement des terres agricoles est un « phénomène (...)
Zelensky enacts law to launch farmland market in Ukraine
25 May 2021
24 May 2021 | UNIAN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a law on deregulation of (...)
La loi sur l’accès au foncier agricole n’empêchera pas la création de « fermes gigantesques »
25 May 2021
25 May 2021 | Bastamag Qui possède les terres agricoles en France ? De moins en moins (...)
Two Lao workers die from suspected chemical use at Chinese-owned banana farm
25 May 2021
24 May 2021 | RFA Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned (...)
L’histoire méconnue d’une production rizicole ratée : Feronia Inc. en République démocratique du Congo
25 May 2021
18 May 2021 | GRAIN En 2016, Feronia avait déjà englouti au moins 14 millions de dollars dans ses (...)
Pollution and green washing Problems around Socfin plantations continue
25 May 2021
25 May 2021 | Civil society groups working with communities affected by the rubber and oil (...)
United Nations end business with the Bolloré Group
25 May 2021
24 May 2021 | Oakland Institute The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The (...)
Pollution et "greenwashing" : Les plantations du groupe Socfin encore entourées de pratiques contestables
25 May 2021
25 May 2021 | AFASPA et al Des organisations de la société civile interpellent sur les abus (...)
Aksi penolakan masyarakat adat, bupati Sorong Selatan mencabut izin perusahaan perkebunan kelapa sawit
24 May 2021
22 May 2021 | Yayasan Pusaka Lebih dari 200 orang masyarakat adat dan aktivis melakukan aksi (...)
Ouganda : Les accaparements de terres et les expulsions forcées d’agriculteurs se sont multipliés pendant le confinement imposé par Covid-19
21 May 2021
20 May 2021 | FIDES "La situation s'aggrave alors que les populations de districts entiers sont (...)
Uganda: El acaparamiento de tierras y la deportación forzosa de campesinos aumentan durante el encierro por Covid-19
21 May 2021
20 May 2021 | Agencia Fides "Las élites ricas violan los derechos de los pobres al quedarse con (...)
Brasil: Gobierno planea eliminar protección de territorios indígenas
21 May 2021
19 May 2021 | Servindi El Gobierno de Brasil planea eliminar las ordenanzas que protegen a los (...)
Colombia: Senadora “Cabal ha sido financiada por empresas vinculadas con despojos de tierras”
21 May 2021
17 May 2021 | Colombiano Indignado Ariel Ávila, investigador y subdirector de Pares, expuso que (...)
L’accord chinois pour la construction d’un port de pêche en Sierra Leone rencontre une résistance
19 May 2021
19 May 2021 | News24 La Sierra Leone a accepté de vendre 100 ha de plage immaculée et de forêt (...)
Who owns Australia?
19 May 2021
16 May 2021 | Guardian Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small (...)
The untold story of Feronia Inc’s failed rice operations in the DR Congo
19 May 2021
18 May 2021 | GRAIN New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were (...)
President John Magufuli senses fould play in land deal
18 May 2021
03 May 2019 | Daily News Follow-up verification by the Tanzanian government finds villagers (...)
Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
18 May 2021
17 May 2021 | Farm Online PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a (...)
Tanzania: Rice farmers lose appeal against Kapunga project
18 May 2021
20 Apr 2021 | Daily News Some famers from Mbeya Region have lost an appeal case over (...)
CDC Group commits $100 million to ETG, supporting the lives of farmers across Africa and Asia
18 May 2021
10 May 2021 | CDC Group CDC's commitment to company that operates on large swaths of farmland (...)
Global agribusiness continues to displace rural communities
18 May 2021
18 May 2021 | FUF In Kiryandongo, Uganda, three foreign multinational companies, with support (...)
Samuel Nguiffo tire les leçons des échecs de Neo Industry et Pac dans la Vallée du Ntem
18 May 2021
14 May 2021 | Investir au Cameroun Le 5 mai 2021, le Premier ministre a signé un décret annulant (...)
France : L’accès au foncier agricole à l’Assemblée nationale
18 May 2021
17 May 2021 | NR Pyrénées Le nouveau dispositif prévoit de lutter contre la concentration (...)
Le Kazakhstan interdit ses terres arables aux étrangers sur fond de sentiment antichinois
14 May 2021
14 May 2021 | AFP Le président du Kazakhstan a promulgué jeudi une loi interdisant la vente de (...)
Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains
12 May 2021
09 May 2021 | National Accord Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with (...)
Argentina: Hegemonía verde, fundaciones conservacionistas en el control del territorio
12 May 2021
09 May 2021 | El Cohete a la Luna Las fundaciones operan en enclaves estratégicos con valor (...)
Degazetting and granting of 60,000 ha of prime forest for oil palm production project in Ocean Division, South Region of Cameroon
11 May 2021
11 May 2021 | GDA Evaluating the biodiversity impact of the Camvert project on the Campo Ma’an (...)
The global farmland grab goes green
11 May 2021
11 May 2021 | GRAIN Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland (...)
Ethiopie: inauguration d’un parc agro-industriel intégré réalisé à hauteur de 215 millions $
10 May 2021
10 May 2021 | Agence Ecofin Le parc agro-industriel intégré de Bulbula qui s’étend sur 271 hectares (...)
RDC: La justice ouvre un dossier contre Augustin Matata Ponyo
7 May 2021
06 May 2021 | Politico.CD La justice congolaise a ouvert un dossier à charge contre le Sénateur (...)
Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem
7 May 2021
04 May 2021 | CIMI A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá (...)
Brasil: PL da Grilagem entra em votação no Congresso, avançando os tratores do agronegócio a favor da grilagem de terras
7 May 2021
01 May 2021 | IHU PL 510/2021, de autoria do senador Irajá Abreu, favorece a expansão dos (...)
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation
7 May 2021
05 May 2021 | Sky News An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket (...)
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
5 May 2021
04 May 2021 | Mongabay Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 (...)
Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business
5 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 | GAI The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 (...)
Cambodia: Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng
4 May 2021
04 May 2021 | Phnom Penh Post Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that (...)
Peruvian agribusinesses’ interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases
4 May 2021
03 May 2021 | Fresh Plaza Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a (...)
Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy
4 May 2021
29 Apr 2021 | CRAAD-OI and TANY The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares (...)
Le Front marocain de soutien à la Palestine dénonce l’intention du groupe sioniste "Mehadrin" de louer des terres agricoles marocaines
3 May 2021
03 May 2021 | APS Le Front dénonce l'accaparement des terres marocaines par "Mehadrin" qui (...)
Holding companies to account
1 May 2021
30 Apr 2021 | Global Witness European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have (...)
RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d’un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM
30 April 2021
30 Apr 2021 | RIAO-RDC et GRAIN La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa (...)
Madagascar : Pire que le projet Daewoo, la stratégie nationale de l’agrobusiness
29 April 2021
29 Apr 2021 | CRAAD-OI et TANY Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 (...)
Desmatamento da Amazônia com Bolsonaro visa a grilagem, aponta dirigente do MST
29 April 2021
27 Apr 2021 | MST Passadas algumas décadas, o solo e o meio ambiente se exaurem e esses (...)
France - Grosse mobilisation citoyenne pour dénoncer les pratiques illégales des vergers de Fontorbe
29 April 2021
29 Apr 2021 | Occitanie Tribune Plus de 500 personnes se sont retrouvées pour une marche (...)
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
28 April 2021
28 Apr 2021 | ActionAidUSA The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a (...)
Liberia: ’We don’t want to threaten anybody’
27 April 2021
26 Apr 2021 | New Dawn Responding to an appeal from a parliamentary representative to rectify (...)
Mahi Pono and paraquat: The 2020 sequel
27 April 2021
23 Apr 2021 | Politics on Maui A farm in Maui owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment (...)
Transparency of land-based investments: Cameroon country snapshot
27 April 2021
27 Mar 2021 | CCSI and CED Communities continue to be excluded from decision-making around (...)
Agri Resources Group, un acteur investi dans l’agriculture durable et la transformation agro-alimentaire en Afrique
26 April 2021
26 Apr 2021 | Agence Ecofin Agri Resources, filiale du controverse Monaco Resources Group, a (...)
RIAO-RDC exige une enquête internationale après le mort d’une autre villageois aux mains des gardes industrielles de la PHC LOKUTU
25 April 2021
23 Apr 2021 | RIAO-RDC Monsieur Manu Efolafola a été jeté dans le fleuve Congo sous menotte par (...)
After being tortured by the army, the land rights defender is charged and remanded to prison
23 April 2021
22 Apr 2021 | Witness Radio A community land rights defender who was kidnapped from his home (...)
Kuramo Capital accuses Congo investment partner of looting plant
22 April 2021
22 Apr 2021 | Bloomberg A Kuramo Capital fund filed suit in Delaware seeking to oust the (...)
Bénin : l’entreprise Agri Resources investira 8,5 milliards Fcfa dans le riz et l’horticulture
22 April 2021
21 Apr 2021 | Agence Ecofin Le governement du Bénin octroie 10.000 ha à une multinationale (...)
RDC – Des fonds de pension et de dotation internationaux impliqués dans les abus du secteur de l’huile de palme
22 April 2021
19 Apr 2021 | Mongabay Un nouveau rapport du Oakland Institute dénonce le financement par (...)
Infografía. Cercas digitales: El acaparamiento tecnológico de tierras
21 April 2021
15 Apr 2021 | GRAIN En la siguiente infografía desglosamos los vericuetos y el intrincado (...)
Three Saturday protests demand TIAA divest from fossil fuels, land grabs
20 April 2021
20 Apr 2021 | TIAA Divest! The TIAA-Divest! campaign demands that TIAA "stop land grabs," as (...)
KKR invests in Adopt A Cow
20 April 2021
18 Apr 2021 | Business Wire Chinese dairy company engaged in alfalfa growing, dairy farming, (...)
Fouta Tampi ! 20 000 Hectares Lafa Ay Bandits Yu Makk Di Saax Saxéé
20 April 2021
10 Apr 2021 | Xalaat TV Retour sur l'un des plus gros scandales fonciers de l'histoire du (...)
Warakirri to raise $500 million for new fund
20 April 2021
19 Apr 2021 | The Land Australian farmland is an appealing asset class to Canadian-backed (...)
Département de Dagana: Ndiael demande la désaffectation de ses terres et un audit du foncier
20 April 2021
16 Apr 2021 | PressAfrik Le Collectif pour la défense des terres du Ndiael réclame ses 20 mille (...)
Perusahaan PT. Digoel Agri Group mengembangkan kebun kelapa sawit di Kabupaten Boven Digoel diduga tanpa HGU
20 April 2021
19 Apr 2021 | Yayasan Pusaka Perusahaan PT. Digoel Agri Group yang sebagian besar modalnya (...)
Préoccupation foncière au Burkina : Le flacon d’antidotes de la commission épiscopale justice et paix
20 April 2021
18 Apr 2021 | LeFaso.net La Commission épiscopale justice et paix du Burkina (CJP-Burkina) a, du (...)
Défendre les terres, le soulèvement à venir ?
19 April 2021
15 Apr 2021 | Rapports de force Les Soulèvements de la Terre : un nom porteur, pour une campagne (...)
Saint-Louis : un aménagement de 2.500 ha du PDIDAS bientôt opérationnel (coordonnatrice)
14 April 2021
14 Apr 2021 | APS Un aménagement hydro-agricole de 2.500 hectares réalisé dans la zone de (...)
The AAF fund’s exit from Feronia marks the end of AFD Group’s indirect participation in the company
14 April 2021
08 Apr 2021 | Proparco The French development bank, AFD Group, says it no longer has any (...)
Agricultural investment firm sees opportunity in Africa’s ‘incomplete value chains’
14 April 2021
07 Apr 2021 | HowWeMadeItInAfrica The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest (...)
Australia: Unnamed European pension fund backs Warakirri farmland fund
14 April 2021
13 Apr 2021 | IPE An unnamed European pension fund has become the cornerstone investor in the (...)
New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon
13 April 2021
12 Apr 2021 | Mongabay Cultivation of oil palm has surged in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima (...)
La agroindustria rodea el territorio indígena Xingu en Brasil
12 April 2021
09 Apr 2021 | IPS Los habitantes de las tierras indígenas de Baú, Menkragnoti y Panará dicen que (...)
Madagascar : Projet ELITE AGRO LLC dans le Bas-Mangoky
12 April 2021
07 Apr 2021 | Gouvt de Madagascar Décision du Conseil des Ministres malgache du 7 avril 2021 (...)
Zimbabwe: Biti continues terrorising foreign dairy investor
10 April 2021
02 Apr 2021 | Zimbabwe Mail MDC Alliance VP Tendai Biti refutes rumours that a lucerne grass (...)
Zimbabwe told to “immediately” stop eviction of Chilonga people
10 April 2021
10 Mar 2021 | Pindula A group of Civil society groups in Zimbabwe has told the government to (...)
New Zealand’s Fonterra completes sale of two China farms
9 April 2021
08 Apr 2021 | The Cattle Site Fonterra has completed the sale of its two wholly owned farming (...)
¿Por qué Bill Gates se ha convertido en el mayor propietario privado de tierras agrícolas en EEUU?
8 April 2021
07 Apr 2021 | Red Eco Alternativo El cofundador de Microsoft, empresario y filántropo, Bill (...)
Bolivia: Alcides Vadillo: "Nuestros agroindustriales cruceños coinciden con los colonizadores o interculturales en la forma de desarrollo"
8 April 2021
04 Apr 2021 | F. Tierra El director de la Regional Oriente de la Fundación TIERRA habla de la (...)
State pension money invested in ‘questionable’ Congo palm oil company
8 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | Sunday Times The South African Government Employees Pension Fund and the (...)
Lutte contre la spoliation foncière : Les recettes de la Société civile
8 April 2021
08 Apr 2021 | Sud Online Le cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS) (...)
Honduras: narcotráfico y ganadería disparan deforestación en la Reserva de Biosfera de Río Plátano
7 April 2021
05 Apr 2021 | Mongabay “El acaparamiento de tierra y la ocupación ilegal es algo que no podemos (...)
Ouargla: vingt-mille hectares de terres consacrées à l’agro-industrie
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | APS Menée par la société d’investissement "Al-Filaha-ATLAS", fruit d’un partenariat (...)
Ancaman terhadap komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan kisah-kisah perlawanannya
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | WRM Sebuah kompilasi dari WRM mengenai ancaman yang dihadapi komunitas yang (...)
Attacks on forest-dependent communities in Indonesia and resistance stories
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | WRM A compilation by World Rainforest Movement on the threats faced by (...)
Planned deforestation threatens Indigenous land, intact forest landscapes in West Papua
7 April 2021
05 Apr 2021 | Greenpeace New report from Greenpeace International‘Licence to Clear’ shows (...)
Lands grabs and other destructive environmental practices in Cambodia test the International Criminal Court
7 April 2021
23 Mar 2021 | Inside Climate News Three leading climate and human rights nonprofits have asked (...)
Camvert and the forest peril in the Congo basin
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | Afrik21 Some local communities have joined NGOs to denounce the establishment of (...)
PostNL pension fund makes farmland allocation over returns, SDGs
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | IPE A first €20m has already been invested in olive orchards in Portugal, with (...)
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?
7 April 2021
05 Apr 2021 | The Guardian The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it and who cares (...)
Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui
7 April 2021
06 Apr 2021 | Responsible Markets Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up (...)
‘What other country would do this to its people?’ Cambodian land grab victims seek int’l justice
6 April 2021
01 Apr 2021 | Mongabay FIDH, along with Global Witness and Climate Counsel, submitted an open (...)
Key Cerrado deforesters in 2020 linked to the clearing of more than 110,000 hectares
1 April 2021
30 Mar 2021 | CRR A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors (...)
Agribusiness prospects in East and Southern Africa: Investor shares his insights
1 April 2021
25 Mar 2021 | How We Made It in Africa Henri de Villeneuve says his company SAPA is looking at (...)
Food estate projects must not contribute to deforestation: experts
31 March 2021
28 Mar 2021 | ANTARA The Indonesian government last year started developing a food estate (...)
Saudi Arabia: Food security is a priority
31 March 2021
28 Mar 2021 | Arab News The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in (...)
Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs?
31 March 2021
30 Mar 2021 | Bulatlat For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control (...)
Brasil: El monocultivo de soja en el Cerrado de MATOPIBA y sus consecuencias ambientales
30 March 2021
30 Mar 2021 | Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos "Necesitamos cuestionar esta idea (...)
RDC : Le nouveau rapport de l’Oakland Institute dévoile les investisseurs finançant les plantations de palmiers à huile de PHC
30 March 2021
24 Mar 2021 | Vivafrik «Ces investisseurs sont directement responsables des vols de terres et (...)
Burkina Faso : Le problème du foncier soulevé au festival « Alimenterre »
30 March 2021
28 Mar 2021 | Burkina24 La 1ère édition du « festival alimenterre » s’est clôturée autour d’un débat (...)
La bamboula continue sur le foncier, plus de 280.000 hectares octroyés encore à des étrangers
30 March 2021
29 Mar 2021 | Limametti Au Sénégal, les scandales fonciers impunis ont beaucoup influé sur les (...)
Abducted villagers found at Kiryandongo district police, charged and released on police bond
30 March 2021
24 Mar 2021 | Witness Radio The abduction of villagers is part of the wider use of violence (...)
Uganda: Land rights defender charged with setting fire to crops, released on bond
30 March 2021
17 Mar 2021 | Witness Radio Atyaluk David Richard is among dozens of community land and (...)
Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent
26 March 2021
25 Mar 2021 | Mongabay A palm oil conglomerate has begun clearing the ancestral forests of (...)
Fiscalía colombiana captura siete personas por deforestación en zona de reserva de la Amazonía
25 March 2021
25 Mar 2021 | TRT En dicha área, ubicada en inmediaciones del resguardo Nukak Makú, se (...)
Bill Gates attempts to explain why he bought more farmland than anyone else in America
25 March 2021
22 Mar 2021 | Futurism Gates was asked why he is buying so much farmland. His answer: “My (...)
Mauritanie: accaparement des terres agricoles de Feralla, populations et ONG dénoncent
24 March 2021
22 Mar 2021 | Le 360 Afrique Les populations du village de Feralla continuent à refuser toute (...)
Bill Gates est le plus grand propriétaire agricole aux Etats-Unis… et il ne sait pas pourquoi
24 March 2021
24 Mar 2021 | Capital.fr Sur Reddit, un internaute a demandé "Hey Bill ! Pourquoi achetez-vous (...)
Ukrainian plans for a breeding farm in Kazakhstan
24 March 2021
23 Mar 2021 | Pig Progress Ukrainian pig company KSG Agro and its Swiss partner plan to build a (...)
University assembly resolution to encourage TIAA divestment from fossil fuels
23 March 2021
21 Mar 2021 | Cornell Daily Sun Resolution by Cornell's University Assembly also calls on its (...)
Campesinos denuncian acaparamiento de tierras en Haití
23 March 2021
20 Mar 2021 | El País Costa Rica El reciente reclamo responde al otorgamiento mediante decreto (...)
Stop TIAA’s corporate investment in land grabs that foster displacement and threaten biological and ecological destruction.
23 March 2021
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16 March 2021
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11 March 2021
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5 March 2021
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4 March 2021
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4 March 2021
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4 March 2021
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3 March 2021
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1 March 2021
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1 March 2021
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DR Congo oil palm company bankrolled by development banks unleashes wave of violence against villagers after peaceful protests
26 February 2021
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26 February 2021
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26 February 2021
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26 February 2021
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26 February 2021
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26 February 2021
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Saudi Arabia to import wheat from Saudi farms abroad for delivery later this year
26 February 2021
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22 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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‘Hungry’ palm oil, pulpwood firms behind Indonesia land-grab spike: Report
17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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17 February 2021
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RDC: Entretien avec Gilbert Lokombu Limela, Président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu)
16 February 2021
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16 February 2021
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Rights group wants continued boycott of Kakuzi produce
15 February 2021
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SOMO welcomes settlement between British agribusiness giant and Kenyan claimants
15 February 2021
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Campesinos evicted in times of crisis Honduras
15 February 2021
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15 February 2021
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RD Congo : Le RIAO-RDC demande la libération immédiate de quatre leaders de la communauté de Mwingi qui ont été arrêtés après une manifestation pacifique contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC
15 February 2021
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15 February 2021
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10 February 2021
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10 February 2021
09 Feb 2021 | Le Monde Le soutien apporté depuis 2012 par la France à Feronia PHC, une société (...)
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10 February 2021
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Sri Lanka: Indigenous leader goes to court against land allocation
10 February 2021
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Treasure hunters in the desert: A conversation with Saker El Nour on land grabs in reclamation projects and agricultural power dynamics
10 February 2021
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10 February 2021
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9 February 2021
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9 February 2021
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8 February 2021
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8 February 2021
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6 February 2021
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5 February 2021
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Brasil: Incra regulamenta programa que terceiriza titulação de terras e favorece grilagem
5 February 2021
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5 February 2021
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Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado
4 February 2021
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2 February 2021
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2 February 2021
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Australian family, backed by one of South Africa’s richest men, buys Larrizona Station for $17 million
2 February 2021
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Manulife Investment Management completes majority acquisition of Chilean fruit exporter, David Del Curto S.A.
2 February 2021
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2 February 2021
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Dossier Feronia : la Banque allemande de développement à nouveau pointée du doigt
2 February 2021
02 Feb 2021 | Deutsche Welle "Ce que nous reprochons à la DEG comme à toutes les banques de (...)
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2 February 2021
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Okumu oil host communities protest marginalisation, water pollution
1 February 2021
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Indonesia urged to resolve palm oil conflicts in West Kalimantan
1 February 2021
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Criminalización de la lucha campesina en tiempo de pandemia Honduras
1 February 2021
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1 February 2021
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29 January 2021
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29 January 2021
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Plantations Feronia: Un prêt de 10 millions d’argent belge à haut risque
28 January 2021
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28 January 2021
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Plantage dans les plantations
28 January 2021
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28 January 2021
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28 January 2021
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Development finance as agro-colonialism: European development bank funding of Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
28 January 2021
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Financement du développement sous forme d’agro-colonialisme: le financement des plantations d’huile de palme de Feronia-PHC en République démocratique du Congo par les banques européennes de développement
28 January 2021
28 Jan 2021 | RIAO et al Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile (...)
Russian firm to build $1.4-bln pork processing complex in Vietnam
28 January 2021
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Sudan wants to ‘turn the desert green’ in agricultural modernisation push
28 January 2021
25 Jan 2021 | FT DAL’s $225m greenfield project in Abu Hamad — a joint venture with the Royal (...)
Les accords conclus par les entreprises devant le Point National de Contact de l’OCDE doivent être respectés
26 January 2021
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Raio X: onde estão os 3,9 milhões de hectares sob controle estrangeiro no Brasil
26 January 2021
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Bill Gates se convirtió en el mayor propietario de tierras agrícolas en EEUU
26 January 2021
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La douloureuse histoire d’un projet démesuré
26 January 2021
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26 January 2021
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Extension des terres du groupe Socfin : le FODER tire la sonnette d’alarme
26 January 2021
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The agreements concluded by companies before the national contact point of the OECD must be respected
26 January 2021
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26 January 2021
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Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
22 January 2021
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Micmac autour de 20.000 hectares de terres
22 January 2021
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Saudi Arabia triples agriculture investments abroad
21 January 2021
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21 January 2021
21 Jan 2021 | Reuters A study of 1,500 large land deals totalling 37 million hectares - across (...)
Dwindling number of Africans own land
21 January 2021
20 Jan 2021 | DW Researchers say the growing interest of companies in investing in agricultural (...)
World Bank, EU ready to provide technical support for Ukraine to launch farmland reform
21 January 2021
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The financialisation of land sales
18 January 2021
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Prévention des conflits fonciers en rendant impossible l’octroi des Tf sur les terres arables : La Cicodev en phase avec Macky
18 January 2021
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Bill Gates devient le plus grand exploitant agricole privé des États-Unis
18 January 2021
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18 January 2021
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Sexual exploitation and violence against women at the root of the industrial plantation model
14 January 2021
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14 January 2021
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13 January 2021
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12 January 2021
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12 January 2021
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9 January 2021
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9 January 2021
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8 January 2021
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17 December 2020
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15 December 2020
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10 December 2020
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9 December 2020
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9 December 2020
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24 November 2020
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24 November 2020
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24 November 2020
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18 November 2020
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18 November 2020
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11 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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10 November 2020
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6 November 2020
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4 November 2020
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4 November 2020
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30 October 2020
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29 October 2020
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28 October 2020
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28 October 2020
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28 October 2020
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28 October 2020
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26 October 2020
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23 October 2020
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23 October 2020
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23 October 2020
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22 October 2020
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Uganda: Eight defenders iin Kiryandongo released on bail
22 October 2020
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21 October 2020
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Zambian expert calls for more Chinese investment to boost agricultural export
21 October 2020
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20 October 2020
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19 October 2020
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16 October 2020
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14 October 2020
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13 October 2020
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28 September 2020
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La Synaparcam saisit Nestlé Cameroun pour faire pression sur Socapalm
28 September 2020
26 Sep 2020 | Biocamer.net Des représentants des populations locales ont saisi le groupe Nestlé (...)
Think tank decries global push to privatise land
28 September 2020
28 Sep 2020 | Ceylon Today One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation (...)
Colombia: El despojo de tierras al pueblo negro de La Larga y Tumaradó llega a la JEP
25 September 2020
24 Sep 2020 | El Espectador En el papel, la comunidad afro de ese consejo comunitario es dueña (...)
Harvard-controlled LLC in $120+ million deal with anonymous LLC connected with Canadian pension fund.
25 September 2020
14 Aug 2020 | WII Two Harvard-controlled LLCs have deeded over 7,104.74 acres of land in (...)
Spoliation des communautés locales : la Synaparcam charge la Socapalm chez Tractafric Motors Cameroun
25 September 2020
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Digital fences: the financial enclosure of farmlands in South America
25 September 2020
25 Sep 2020 | grain.org A real financialisation of land, natural resources and the agri-food (...)
Cercas digitais: cercamento financeiro das terras agrícolas na América do Sul
25 September 2020
25 Sep 2020 | grain.org No contexto das múltiplas crises globais, a pressão sobre o controle da (...)
Cercas digitales: cercamiento financiero de las tierras agrícolas en América del Sur
25 September 2020
25 Sep 2020 | grain.org La tecnología de georreferenciación, y la información geoespacial que (...)
Palm oil labour abuses linkeds to the world’s top brands, banks
25 September 2020
24 Sep 2020 | AP An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of (...)
Indonesia starts developing controversial food estate project
25 September 2020
23 Sep 2020 | Reuters Indonesia has started developing a food estate to grow rice, corn and (...)
Investors turn to ag sector
25 September 2020
25 Sep 2020 | Farm Weekly Agricultural investors say the COVID-19 crisis has had little impact (...)
Cercas digitales: cercamiento financiero de las tierras agrícolas en América del Sur
25 September 2020
22 Sep 2020 | GRAIN Una verdadera financiarización de la tierra, de los recursos naturales y del (...)
Boletín Nyeleni N° 41 Mucho más que tierra – Territorios y soberanía alimentaria
25 September 2020
15 Sep 2020 | Boletín Nyeleni Este número del Boletín Nyéléni es la segunda edición de este año (...)
Development banks must be held accountable for their disastrous oil palm plantation investments in the Congo
25 September 2020
24 Sep 2020 | GRAIN The Feronia case, and other development bank investment failures, shows (...)
Les défis de faire la plus grande palmeraie du Cameroun
24 September 2020
23 Sep 2020 | Actu Cameroun Avec une plantation sur 50 000 ha à Campo et Niete, la société (...)
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24 September 2020
15 Sep 2020 | Nyéléni Malgré les défis persistants dans les luttes des peuples pour la terre, ce (...)
Hundreds of Cambodian villagers displaced by land grabs protest in Phnom Penh
23 September 2020
22 Sep 2020 | RFA The villagers say they never received compensation for farmland lost to a (...)
From agrarian reform to people’s rights to territories: a brief history of people’s struggles for natural resources
23 September 2020
22 Sep 2020 | Nyéleni Newsletter Nyéléni Newsletter's second edition fo 2020 looks at how (...)
Australia: QAF’s Rivalea piggeries, meatworks and stockfeed business for sale
23 September 2020
22 Sep 2020 | The Land The Singaporean-owned company has about 7600 hectares of farmland (...)
SOCFIN and her subsidiary Okomu Oil Palm Company PLC rights violations in Edo State Communities/Villages: An S.O.S.
22 September 2020
22 Sep 2020 | Edo State communities Communities of Edo State send letter to President Buhari (...)
Adamaoua : pas moins de 655.000 hectares des terres convoités
17 September 2020
17 Sep 2020 | Actu Cameroun La création des réserves foncières, les concessions agricoles et les (...)
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South Korean conglomerate to exit Warragundi
16 September 2020
16 Sep 2020 | AFR Giant South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group is looking to make an exit from (...)
Farming study brings Sudan, Egypt closer amid Nile Dam crisis
16 September 2020
16 Sep 2020 | Al-Monitor Egypt has agreed with Sudan to study a plan to grow crops together on (...)
Fortune Agribusiness unveils $150 million irrigation plans for Northern Territory cattle station
16 September 2020
14 Sep 2020 | ABC The owner of a Northern Territory cattle station has unveiled plans to (...)
Agribusiness in Africa: Investor reveals which areas hold the most potential
16 September 2020
09 Sep 2020 | How we made it in Africa How we made it in Africa speaks to Chris Isaac, chief (...)
Illinois SURS makes first farmland commitment, allocating $60M to Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund III
16 September 2020
16 Sep 2020 | GAI This investment marks the US pension’s first investment in farmland, and in (...)
Who pays the price of King Leopold’s Bugatti?
10 September 2020
04 Sep 2020 | Oakland Institute A private collection of some of the world’s fanciest cars, (...)
Eight land rights defenders and activists have been assaulted, arrested and taken to unknown place
9 September 2020
07 Sep 2020 | Witness Radio Once again, the police in Kiryandongo district, Uganda are under (...)
Orange County redeems investment from UBS AgriVest Farmland Fund
9 September 2020
09 Sep 2020 | IPE The pension fund is reducing its allocation to real assets from 22% to 17% as (...)
Land-grabbing in Asia displaces indigenous people: UN expert
9 September 2020
09 Sep 2020 | TBS Large-scale development projects, including monocrop plantations, are (...)
Adecoagro obtained international credit of US $ 100 million and plans investments in Argentina
9 September 2020
27 Jul 2020 | eFarm News The firm Adecoagro, the largest producer of raw milk in Argentina, (...)
TC Capital acquires a 6,550-hectare farm in Timiș county following 23.5 million Euro transaction
9 September 2020
06 Sep 2020 | The Diplomat This transaction is the second major agricultural investment in (...)
US investor snaps up almond orchard for $98m
9 September 2020
06 Sep 2020 | Farm Weekly Rural Funds Management has announced the sale of its Mooral almond (...)
Louis Dreyfus in talks to sell stake to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ
9 September 2020
05 Sep 2020 | Bloomberg For the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund a minority stake in one of the (...)
Land dispute settlements signed in Mondulkiri between indigenous communities and Socfin Cambodia
7 September 2020
10 Aug 2020 | MRLG On 10 August 2020 indigenous communities from Busra commune in Cambodia (...)
“Conflict rubber” and land rights in southeastern Myanmar
7 September 2020
30 Jul 2020 | MRLG After decades of war, in northern Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar, rubber (...)
Suku Awyu, menuntut pemerintah cabut izin perusahaan kelapa sawit
7 September 2020
07 Sep 2020 | Pusaka Lebih dari 50 warga Suku Awyu melakukan aksi unjuk rasa di Kantor DPRD (...)
Acaparamientos de tierra a punta de pistola : En Uganda desalojan violentamente a miles de familias de sus fincas
4 September 2020
04 Sep 2020 | grain.org Cerca de 30 mil personas del distrito de Kiryandongo, Uganda, están (...)
Accaparements de terres à main armée : Des milliers de familles sont violemment expulsées de leurs fermes en Ouganda
4 September 2020
04 Sep 2020 | GRAIN On estime à 30 000 les habitants du district de Kiryandongo, en Ouganda, à (...)
Land grabs at gunpoint: Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms in Uganda
4 September 2020
25 Aug 2020 | GRAIN An estimated 30,000 people in Kiryandongo district, Uganda, are being (...)
Les droits humains doivent être au coeur du premier sommet mondial des banques publiques de développement
4 September 2020
04 Sep 2020 | FIDH Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à (...)
Côte d’Ivoire agriculture project secures Atradius-backed financing
4 September 2020
04 Sep 2020 | GTE Review Israeli and Dutch firms, backed by the Dutch export credit agency, (...)
The impact of COVID-19 on landgrabbing across Africa
4 September 2020
15 Jul 2020 | Amandla Is the pandemic opening up forms of organizing to restore community (...)
Terres agricoles : la ruée vers l’Est des spéculateurs
3 September 2020
03 Sep 2020 | Ouest France L’est de l’Europe est victime d’un phénomène d’accaparement de terres par (...)
África, un imán para el cultivo de aceite de palma
3 September 2020
01 Sep 2020 | El País El continente africano se ha convertido en nuevo y valioso escenario para (...)
Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags
2 September 2020
17 Aug 2020 | Mongabay The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a plan to grow crops on (...)
Chinese hog breeder cooperates with authorities over land probe
2 September 2020
01 Sep 2020 | Bloomberg State radio reported last week that hog farm expansions financed by the (...)
Banks funnelled over USD 150 billion into companies driving deforestation since Paris Agreement, new data analyses shows
2 September 2020
01 Sep 2020 | Forests & Finance First-ever database reveals true scope of financing of (...)
Raped off their land: hallowing tales of Kiryandongo evictees
1 September 2020
01 Sep 2020 | Observer Numerous women say they were raped by workers of three multinational (...)
Mauritanie: vives tensions autour de l’accaparement de terres dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal
31 August 2020
31 Aug 2020 | le360.ma L'accaparement de terres des habitants de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal par (...)
CAO activity related to IFC’s investment in the Salala Rubber Corporation
31 August 2020
29 Jun 2020 | CAO Update fropm the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accountability mechanism for (...)
Usage de la terre au Cameroun : Les relations difficiles entre les acteurs industriels et les communautés locales
31 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | Pulitzer Center Quatre reportages sur les expériences autour de Sud Cameroun Hevea (...)
Renewed tensions over commercial farming on Ugandan abandoned land
28 August 2020
28 Aug 2020 | Reuters Thousands of families say they have been displaced from their homes to (...)
Pemain baru mulai babat hutan dalam proyek perkebunan sawit raksasa di Papua
28 August 2020
28 Aug 2020 | The Gecko Project Digoel Agri Group mulai beroperasi dalam mega proyek yang (...)
Sénégal : Corruption foncière et pillage des terres de Mbane
28 August 2020
27 Aug 2020 | Seneplus Le débat national sur les conflits fonciers nécessite que l’on réexamine (...)
Agilis Partners speaks out on land grabbing allegations
28 August 2020
27 Aug 2020 | Uganda Tribune Agilis Partners has released a statement denying all allegations (...)
Tiaret (Algérie) : 200 éleveurs menacés d’expulsion à Rechaiga
27 August 2020
26 Aug 2020 | 200 éleveurs, propriétaires d'un cheptel ovin de plus de 60.000 tètes, font face à (...)
Kronologi ketua adat Kinipan diseret dan ditangkap polisi
27 August 2020
27 Aug 2020 | CNN Indonesia Ketua Komunitas Adat Laman Kinipan Effendi Buhing ditangkap polisi (...)
Foreign investors responsible for land evictions- report
27 August 2020
26 Aug 2020 | New Vision More than 35,000 people from over 20 villages are homeless after being (...)
Cambodia’s land concessions yield few benefits, sow social and environmental devastation
27 August 2020
26 Aug 2020 | Radio Free Asia Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s land leasing policy has led (...)
Indonesian farmers walk 1,800-km to protest against evictions
26 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Reuters More than 100 farmers gathered outside the presidential palace in (...)
Indonesian farmers walk 1,800-km to protest against evictions
26 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Reuters More than 100 farmers gathered outside the presidential palace in (...)
Paraguay: Ley de Registro Único de Tierras: Las trampas del mercado
26 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | BASE-IS Los mecanismos establecidos para la resolución de conflictos respecto a la (...)
Victims of land grabbing decry rape, torture and assault by multinational companies
26 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | Soft Power Victims of land grabbing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda have come out (...)
Cameroon: Sheep-breeding community Mbororos challenges a temporary concession of 100,000 hectares in the Adamaoua
26 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | BusinessInCameroon About 100 farmers’ households have been exploiting the area for (...)
Kenyan communities sue UK over colonial-era land grab
25 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Aljazeera Communities brutally evicted by the British to make way for tea (...)
Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse
25 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Mongabay Harvard says it is trying to divest from unsustainable ventures but is (...)
Land grabs at gunpoint
25 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | Witness Radio et al Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their (...)
Farmland piques global investor interest amid pandemic
25 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | The Asset The Covid-19 pandemic and a general trend towards ESG investing are (...)
Les femmes riveraines de la Socapalm s’informent
25 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | Financier d'Afrique La Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun (...)
Cameroun/Accaparement des terres : les Mbororos dénoncent la concession de 100 000 hectares dans le septentrion
25 August 2020
25 Aug 2020 | Actu Cameroun Les éleveurs Mbororos et agriculteurs vivant à Mbakana sont inquiets (...)
Sénégal : Frank Timis cité dans une affaire d’accaparement de 20.000 Ha.
25 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Dakar Actu Le collectif pour la défense des terres de Ndiaël alerte sur sa (...)
Perusahaan agro UEA akan tanam modal di Subang
25 August 2020
23 Aug 2020 | CNBC Indonesia Perusahaan produsen dan distributor buah dan sayur segar asal Abu (...)
Litige foncier au Sénégal : « Plus de 800.000 ha de nos terres feraient objet d’accaparement », selon le président de Actionaide
24 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Press Afrik Le Cadre de Réflexion et d’Action sur le Foncier au Sénégal, avec une (...)
Attribution de terres aux agrobusiness au Sénégal : l’erreur du cachet rouge avant la licence sociale
24 August 2020
14 Aug 2020 | Senweb Contrairement aux fervents partisans du légalisme, en matière de foncier (...)
Togo : Des propriétaires terriens dénoncent un projet d’accaparement de leurs terres
24 August 2020
24 Aug 2020 | Le Temps Le Collectif des propriétaires terriens, la Ligue des consommateurs du (...)
Mauritanie: l’AAAID s’accapare des terres de Darel Barka
24 August 2020
23 Aug 2020 | Financial Afrik Après avoir attribué une superficie de 3200 hectares à l’Autorité (...)
Des communautés rurales camerounaises luttent pour leurs terres ancestrales
24 August 2020
20 Aug 2020 | VOA Afrique Au Cameroun en l'espace d'une semaine le gouvernement a suspendu deux (...)
UAE agro companies will invest in Subang
24 August 2020
23 Aug 2020 | CNBC Indonesia Elite Agro, a producer and distributor of fresh fruit and (...)
Aprés le pétrole, Franck Timis s’est tapé plus de 25.000 hectares de terres au Sénégal
24 August 2020
22 Aug 2020 | SeneNews A en croire des documents confidentiels obtenus par Senenews, l'homme (...)
Sri Lanka : l’attaque sur les terres
24 August 2020
09 Aug 2020 | Investig’Action Au Sri Lanka, une circulaire protégeant des milliers d’hectares de (...)
Sénégal – Attribution de 252 ha à une société espagnole : Nguéniène remontée contre Produmel
24 August 2020
11 Aug 2020 | Le Quotidien Après Ndingler, l’attribution de 252 ha à une société espagnole soulève (...)
Edo earmarks 100,000ha of land for oil palm cultivation
21 August 2020
21 Aug 2020 | EnviroNews The Edo State Government of Nigeria has set out 100,000 hectares of (...)
Península de Yucatán: la privatización del territorio colectivo
21 August 2020
20 Aug 2020 | Mongabay La doctora en antropología Gabriela Torres Mazuera se ha dedicado a (...)
Record breaking year for Brazil soy exports drives deforestation and land insecurity in the Cerrado Biome
19 August 2020
19 Aug 2020 | CRR As demand for Brazilian soy soars, agribusinesses and farmland developers are (...)
Smit Tit v. Mitr Phol: Ensuring access to remedies against land grabbing by transnational corporations
19 August 2020
19 Aug 2020 | Global Policy An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which (...)
Brasil prepara un programa para vender a fondos de inversión el 15% del Amazonas
15 August 2020
09 Aug 2020 | ABC La iniciativa «Adopta un parque» está previsto para la próxima semana y permitirá (...)
Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
12 August 2020
08 Aug 2020 | Mongabay On the occasion of International Indigenous Peoples Day August 9, (...)
Farmers walk from N. Sumatra to Jakarta to demand Jokowi settle land dispute
11 August 2020
11 Aug 2020 | Jakarta Post Some 170 farmers have walked 1,812 kilometers from their hometown in (...)
Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’
11 August 2020
07 Aug 2020 | Mongabay An investigation is carried out into whether Singapore-based (...)
Cambodians, activists cheer Thai court’s move to allow lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar firm
7 August 2020
06 Aug 2020 | SCMP A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a (...)
Mozambican farmer questions Japan-led support project
7 August 2020
04 Aug 2020 | Nippon A farmer in Mozambique pointed to issues related to a Japan-led project to (...)
Land ownership questioned
7 August 2020
06 Aug 2020 | Western Producer Canadian alternative asset value expert argues that farmers (...)
Ghana : GREL pourrait perdre son investissement de 550 000 euros
7 August 2020
06 Aug 2020 | Afrik.com Ghana Rubber Estate Limited, la filiale ghanéenne de la Société (...)
Amazon land grabbers are destroying brazil nut groves for cattle pasture
6 August 2020
27 Jul 2020 | Climatechange News The invasion of large scale cattle breeding in areas inhabited (...)
Togo : Des entreprises pour aménager plus de 8 000 hectares de terres agricoles
5 August 2020
04 Aug 2020 | Togo First Un décret a été pris en conseil des ministres en février 2019 pour (...)
Uganda: Agilis Partners evictees are being evicted again from their temporary shelter
4 August 2020
31 Jul 2020 | Witness Radio More than 100 families that are part of thousands of families (...)
Deforestación, acaparamiento y ganadería en la Amazonía colombiana
4 August 2020
27 Jul 2020 | Razón Pública El principal causante de la deforestación en la Amazonía es el (...)
Paraguay: Advierten sobre posible intento de legalizar las tierras malhabidas
3 August 2020
29 Jul 2020 | BASE-IS Mediante un posicionamiento emitido en la fecha la Federación Nacional (...)
Thai Appeal Court decision paves the way for Asia’s first transboundary class action on human rights abuses
3 August 2020
31 Jul 2020 | CCHR Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won (...)
Cambodia/Thailand: Court ruling on Mitr Phol watershed moment for corporate accountability in SE Asia
3 August 2020
31 Jul 2020 | Amnesty International On 17 July 2020, Amnesty International submitted a (...)
Thaïlande : plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes pourront poursuivre une usine de sucre
3 August 2020
31 Jul 2020 | Pressenza Le tribunal civil de Bangkok a accordé à plus de 700 familles (...)
Fields of gold: Financing the global land rush
30 July 2020
30 Jul 2020 | Cornell Press In her new book, Fields of Gold, Madeleine Fairbairn critically (...)
Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa
30 July 2020
16 Jul 2020 | Earthsight A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, (...)
Le nombre d’assassinats de militants pour la défense de la terre et de l’environnement en une année a été plus élevé que jamais, s’alarme Global Witness
30 July 2020
29 Jul 2020 | Global Witness Selon Global Witness, 212 défenseurs des droits à la terre ont été (...)
Accaparement des terres : le Gabon, dans le top 10 mondial des pays dépossédés
30 July 2020
27 Jul 2020 | Gabon Review Tout récemment paru, "L’Atlas des Afriques" classe le Gabon dans le (...)
Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders
29 July 2020
29 Jul 2020 | Global Witness Global Witness annual report into the killings of land and (...)
Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests
28 July 2020
21 Jul 2020 | Slow Food As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, (...)
Komnas HAM Papua: Tindakan aparat keamanan perusahaan sawit berlebihan
28 July 2020
27 Jul 2020 | VoA Indonesia Komisi Nasional HAM Perwakilan Papua menyimpulkan ada tindakan (...)
Brasil: Harvard investiu quase meio bilhão de dólares em terras do Cerrado marcadas por conflitos
28 July 2020
27 Jul 2020 | Mongabay O fundo de investimentos da universidade norte-americana possui pelo (...)
Afrique: mais qui est propriétaire de cette parcelle?
27 July 2020
27 Jul 2020 | RFI Derrière cette question simple, il y a le conflit entre les droits nationaux (...)
World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters
27 July 2020
24 Jul 2020 | Mongabay SMTP created BoViMa in 2014 with the ambition of capturing the regional (...)
Fears growing for five indigenous Garifuna men abducted in Honduras
27 July 2020
23 Jul 2020 | The Guardian The Triunfo de la Cruz region has been embroiled in a struggle to (...)
Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation
24 July 2020
24 Jul 2020 | Taylor & Francis "The Senhuile land-grab is an ongoing process, whose (...)
Victory for peasant and civic movements! ProSAVANA officially ended
24 July 2020
24 Jul 2020 | Mokai and JVC Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican (...)
Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU
23 July 2020
22 Jul 2020 | Fruitnet.com Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with (...)
MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank
21 July 2020
21 Jul 2020 | Daily FT The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in (...)
Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement
21 July 2020
21 Jul 2020 | Globe Newswire Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase (...)
Communautés d’Afrique résistent aux plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile, même en temps de Covid-19
20 July 2020
18 Jul 2020 | Vivafrik Alors que les entreprises d’huile de palme se présentent comme des (...)
Diécké (Yomou) : la SOGUIPAH, une société qui maintient le cap malgré la pandémie du nouveau Coronavirus
16 July 2020
15 Jul 2020 | Mosaiqueguinee.com La Soguipah - entreprise d'Etat qui détient 9 000 ha de (...)
Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row
16 July 2020
15 Jul 2020 | The Nation Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a (...)
SAINT-LOUIS – Bataille contre la spoliation foncière : Une histoire de terre
15 July 2020
13 Jul 2020 | Le Quotidien De Mbane à Dodel, en passant par Fanaye, les mouvements (...)
‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua
15 July 2020
14 Jul 2020 | The Gecko Project A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily (...)
Privatisation ’wave’ hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
14 July 2020
14 Jul 2020 | Reuters A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to (...)
Real estate’s challenges could push investors towards farmland
14 July 2020
14 Jul 2020 | PERE As institutional investors continue to seek “pockets of calm” amid the (...)
Communities in West and Central Africa resist industrial oil palm plantations, even in times of Covid-19
14 July 2020
14 Jul 2020 | WRM While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the (...)
Ces scandales fonciers qui ont secoué le magistère de Macky !
10 July 2020
10 Jul 2020 | Sud Online Au Sénégal, la forêt de Balabougou a été déclassée sur une superficie de (...)
« Défendre nos droits est devenu un crime » : des paysans indonésiens contre le greenwashing de Michelin
10 July 2020
10 Jul 2020 | Basta! On parle de « plantations de caoutchouc naturel » mais pour l’Union des (...)
Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers
10 July 2020
09 Jul 2020 | Phnom Penh Post The Preah Vihear Provincial Court in Cambodia has dropped all (...)
Forrests outbid Indigenous group for WA cattle station
9 July 2020
09 Jul 2020 | AFR Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest says conservation and heritage (...)
We have decided to focus on production in Latvia, and we have our reasons
9 July 2020
09 Jul 2020 | Baltic Course We naively believed that collaboration with farmland investor NCH (...)
Pension giant executive’s sky-high pay package angers clients and Brazilian land grab victims
9 July 2020
09 Jul 2020 | Medium TIAA is set to confirm a $21 million compensation package for its CEO and (...)
Inability to resolve Cambodia’s land disputes tied to official complicity: Minister of Interior
8 July 2020
07 Jul 2020 | RFA Cambodia’s government is unable to resolve the country’s myriad land disputes (...)
World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010
8 July 2020
07 Jul 2020 | Mongabay Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk (...)
Nigeria: Cross River communities threaten legal action over alleged land grabbing
8 July 2020
07 Jul 2020 | Guardian Communities in Cross River State have kicked against the exclusion of (...)
Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo
8 July 2020
07 Jul 2020 | Mongabay Activists have called for a financial probe into the Korindo Group, a (...)
Urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders
6 July 2020
05 Jul 2020 | Pusaka Civil Society Organzation from various regions in Indonesia and (...)
Agriculture: Rising liquidity
6 July 2020
06 Apr 2020 | IPE Real Assets Large institutional investors are pouring capital into global (...)
Mali/terres : un activiste menacé
5 July 2020
04 Jul 2020 | TV5Monde Au Mali, Massa Koné défend les communautés de paysans qui sont expulsées de (...)
Brasil: Cientistas mapeiam grilagem em florestas públicas na Amazônia
3 July 2020
27 Jun 2020 | IHU Dos 49,8 milhões de hectares de florestas sob responsabilidade estadual e (...)
Brasil: Compra de terras em larga escala por investidores estrangeiros eleva desmatamento em zonas tropicais, diz estudo
3 July 2020
25 Jun 2020 | IHU Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — (...)
Lawyers for land evicted communities in Kiryandongo District have been charged and released on bond
3 July 2020
02 Jul 2020 | Witness Radio The forceful evictions are being carried out by three (3) (...)
Guatemala: Alertan sobre el acaparamiento de tierras y su impacto en las mujeres
3 July 2020
27 Jun 2020 | Rebelión El informe, titulado “Acaparamiento de Tierras en Guatemala: una mirada (...)
Uganda: Kiryandongo Sugar Limited in another Covid-19 lockdown land grab
2 July 2020
22 Jun 2020 | Witness Radio Kiryandongo Sugar limited, a multinational agribusiness company, (...)
Les paysans trinquent, hommes d’affaires, leaders politiques et chefs religieux jouissent
2 July 2020
01 Jul 2020 | Sud Online Le différend entre Babacar Ngom de Sedima Group et les populations de (...)
In a Post-COVID world govt must drop plans for bankable customary land
2 July 2020
02 Jul 2020 | ACTNow PNG With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, ACT NOW (...)
‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone
1 July 2020
01 Jul 2020 | Mongabay The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war (...)
The dangers lurking between the lines of the US-Sri Lanka MCC compact
30 June 2020
30 Jun 2020 | Daily Express Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri (...)
Selling out West Papua
30 June 2020
25 Jun 2020 | Al Jazeera A video investigation on allegations of fraud and human rights abuses (...)
Cambodia urged to rethink Chinese ties, land policies to recover from pandemic
29 June 2020
29 Jun 2020 | PCFS People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, GRAIN, and Ponlok Khmer urged the (...)
‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant
28 June 2020
26 Jun 2020 | Mongabay Mbonjo sits in the heart of Cameroon’s country’s largest oil palm and (...)
How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire
27 June 2020
26 Jun 2020 | Mongabay Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber (...)
Cambriolage, et menace sur le défenseur des droits l’homme, Massa Koné et sa famille
27 June 2020
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Portant interdiction des terres communautaires par Feronia au Congo
26 June 2020
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Burkina Faso : Dix organisations de la société civile plaident pour un développement rural durable et inclusif
26 June 2020
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Nigeria: Deforestation, land grabbing on the rise in Cross River
26 June 2020
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The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?
26 June 2020
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Argentina: Colores desunidos de Benetton, otra vez, contra los pueblos originarios: tranqueras en tiempos de cuarentena
23 June 2020
14 Jun 2020 | La Vaca El conflicto se generó tras la recuperación que integrantes de pueblos (...)
Ukrainian farmers to enjoy preferential terms for farmland acquisition.
23 June 2020
23 Jun 2020 | UNIAN Farmers to receive preferential terms for farmland acquisition after the (...)
European pension funds back Stafford’s latest Australia farmland fund
23 June 2020
22 Jun 2020 | IPE Real Assets London-based Stafford Capital Partners has raised €12m from three (...)
Beston Global sells South Australia dairy farm aggregation for A$40.4M
23 June 2020
18 Jun 2020 | GAI Beston Global Food Company has sold its four dairy farms in South Australia (...)
Nouvelle attaque terroriste contre les communautés locales par la société Okomu Oil Palm Plantation PLC
23 June 2020
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Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
23 June 2020
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Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers for ‘stealing’ from land they claim
23 June 2020
23 Jun 2020 | Mongabay A court in Indonesia has sentenced two indigenous farmers to eight and (...)
Pour mieux partager et protéger la terre, 10 organisations demandent une loi foncière en 2021 ! (Communiqué)
23 June 2020
23 Jun 2020 | CCFD Terre Solidaire Une refonte de la politique foncière en France est (...)
Kazakhstan seeks foreign investors to develop agro industrial complex
23 June 2020
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Colombia aún no captura a alguno de los grandes deforestadores
23 June 2020
16 Jun 2020 | Semana Sostenible El acaparamiento de tierras sigue campeando en la Amazonia (...)
Louis Dreyfus adds venture capital unit, new innovation head
20 June 2020
20 Jun 2020 | Reuters Agricultural commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Company has launched a (...)
Foncier agricole : attention à l’accaparement des terres
19 June 2020
18 Jun 2020 | Ouest France La Safer, le « gendarme du foncier agricole » en France, tire une (...)
Boletín Nyéléni núm. 40 - Acaparamiento de tierras y justicia agraria
18 June 2020
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Indonesia: Police crackdown on peasants protesting land-grab by a Michelin subsidiary
17 June 2020
15 Jun 2020 | Via Campesina Peasants living in Jambi province, Indonesia, were in for a shock (...)
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17 June 2020
09 Jun 2020 | GAI &Green Fund, with backing from the Norwegian government and Unilever, (...)
Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand
17 June 2020
12 Jun 2020 | Mongabay Major multinational companies including Nestlé and Cargill may be (...)
Kazakhstan: Activists jailed in criminal probes
17 June 2020
12 Jun 2020 | HRW On June 6 protesters expressed demands, including a ban on leasing land to (...)
Another terror attack on local communities by Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc
16 June 2020
16 Jun 2020 | Galaxy Television On 20 May 2020 villagers from Ijaw-Gbene in Okomu Kingdom had (...)
Maurice : Alteo ferme sa raffinerie par manque de sucre à traiter
15 June 2020
15 Jun 2020 | Témoignages La société Alteo va fermer sa raffinerie de sucre mauritienne suite à la (...)
Hentikan proyek cetak sawah/food estate di lahan gambut di Kalimantan Tengah
15 June 2020
14 Jun 2020 | Walhi Lebih dari 160 organisasi dan individu menyerukan agar Pemerintah Indonesia (...)
China’s Xinfadi Market has nearly 18,000 hectares of overseas plantations
13 June 2020
09 May 2019 | Fresh Plaza The Xinfadi Market has already established its own plantations in (...)
Fayemi attracts $50m investment to boost agric sector
13 June 2020
11 Jun 2020 | This Day Investments include FMS Farms' $10 million starch processing plant and (...)
Palm oil industry leaves Indonesian village struggling with loss and regret
12 June 2020
09 Jun 2020 | EcoWatch Indonesia sits at the heart of the global palm oil trade. In 2002, one (...)
Indonesia: Government to develop 165,000 hectares land in Central Kalimantan for food-estate program
12 June 2020
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EU to extend ban on sale of Croatian farmland to foreigners
12 June 2020
11 Jun 2020 | Euractiv Croatia could experience severe and aggressive land-grabbing attempts by (...)
Thailand’s CP Group suspends plans for 6 poultry farms in E. Taiwan
11 June 2020
11 Jun 2020 | Taiwan News Indigenous villagers have been protesting and fear air and water (...)
Mauritanie: un réseau associatif met en garde sur un retour de la gestion du foncier par les gouverneurs
10 June 2020
09 Jun 2020 | Le 360 Le Réseau des Organisations de Sécurité Alimentaire demande un moratoire de 5 (...)
US: Western Colorado water purchases stir up worries about the future of farming
10 June 2020
08 Jun 2020 | Inside Climate News Farmers along Colorado's Grand Valley are concerned a New (...)
Uganda: Leaders block sacking of 400 rice farm employees
10 June 2020
15 Apr 2020 | The Monitor Kalungu leaders have blocked a move by the proprietors of Lukaya (...)
Des organisations félicitent la décision de Feronia d’abandonner ses plantations pour permettre aux communautés de la RD Congo de prospérer
9 June 2020
09 Jun 2020 | RIAO-RDC Après l’annonce de l’abandon de certaines plantations, les communautés ont (...)
Groups welcome Feronia’s decision to abandon plantation lands and enable communities in the DR Congo to thrive
9 June 2020
09 Jun 2020 | RIAO-RDC The communities have already introduced traditional and artisanal palm (...)
Unpacking the finance-farmland nexus: circles of cooperation and intermediaries in Brazil
4 June 2020
04 Jun 2020 | Globalizations Article examines the processes and actors involved and the (...)
Goodvalley acquires production facility in Poland
4 June 2020
04 Jun 2020 | Global Newswire In connection with the acquisition, the Danish company expands (...)
Ukraine to lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners under condition – Zelensky
4 June 2020
04 Jun 2020 | UNIAN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will lift (...)
Brasil: A história do cerco à Amazônia
3 June 2020
31 May 2020 | Amigos da Terra Brasil A engrenagem do capital esmaga a Amazônia, seus povos, a (...)
Offshore investors swoop on almond orchards
2 June 2020
01 Jun 2020 | AFR Funds managed by North American farmland and timber giant Hancock Natural (...)
IFC set to invest $4 million in Suguna Poultry Kenya
2 June 2020
11 Mar 2020 | Africa Agribusiness Suguna Poultry Kenya, subsidiary of India’s multinational (...)
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview
2 June 2020
02 Jun 2020 | GEC Bottom-up mobilizations for more sustainable and socially just uses of the (...)
Cameroon women denounce "destruction" of forests and community by agribusiness giants
2 June 2020
01 Apr 2020 | Earthsight The campaign against Cameroon’s agribusiness titans was reenergised in (...)
Tu tierra, mi tierra, nuestra tierra
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | Coordinadora Europea Via Campesina El movimiento de Soberanía Alimentaria de (...)
Libéria : La Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) sous le feu des critiques, 22 communautés se plaignant d’abus
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | Front Page Africa La SRC accuse l'équipe d'évaluation du CAO - mécanisme indépendant (...)
Des terres en commun
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | Nyéléni Le Mouvement Nyéléni pour la souveraineté alimentaire en Europe et en Asie (...)
Madagascar : Communiqué des organisations de la sociéte civilé sur le projet de loi-cadre sur les terrains à statuts spécifiques
29 May 2020
22 May 2020 | Madagascar Tribune Un projet de loi-cadre sur les terrains dit « à statuts (...)
Banana farms in Laos sicken villagers, even as they provide steady work
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | RFA China-invested banana plantations in Laos are sickening Lao villagers exposed (...)
Your land, my land, our land
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | TNI Handbook of grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for (...)
Liberia: Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) under fire, as 22 communities complained of abuses
29 May 2020
28 May 2020 | FrontPageAfrica The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability (...)
Socfin Cambodia position statement
28 May 2020
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Vietnamese agribusiness giant HAGL destroys indigenous lands
28 May 2020
25 May 2020 | IDI The agribusiness company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), pledged to World Bank in (...)
La BAD lance une publication scientifique sur la politique foncière en Afrique
27 May 2020
26 May 2020 | APS En réponse aux défis à travers l'Afrique concernant la propriété et l'utilisation (...)
Land and resource investment consultations in the time of COVID-19: The hazards of pressing on
27 May 2020
27 May 2020 | Reuters Companies are seeking to press ahead with investments on community lands (...)
Who owns Australia? Our biggest land barons
27 May 2020
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En pleine crise du Covid-19, les cerises marocaines se renforcent à l’export
26 May 2020
26 May 2020 | Challenge L’émirati Elite Agro, à travers sa filiale Elite Harvest Maroc, fait ses (...)
Impacts du Covid-19 à Yomou : faute de pouvoir écouler sa production, la Soguipah au bord du gouffre
26 May 2020
20 May 2020 | Guinée News La société guinéenne du palmier à huile et de l’hévéa (SOGUIPAH) est (...)
Droits humains et entreprises : Le « cas » Socfin : que fait l’État luxembourgeois ?
26 May 2020
25 May 2020 | Woxx L’Initiative pour un devoir de vigilance constate une fois de plus que (...)
“Business as usual” chez Socfin et Bolloré
25 May 2020
25 May 2020 | L'Humanité Tribune collective préparée par plus de 40 organisations à la veille de (...)
"Business as usual" at Socfin and Bolloré
25 May 2020
25 May 2020 | L'Humanité On the eve of their shareholder meetings, more than 40 organisations (...)
Feronia Inc. reports 2019 financial results; announces short term debt financing, proposed restructuring and director changes
24 May 2020
24 May 2020 | Globe Newswire The debt-ridden oil palm plantations company operating in the DR (...)
Argentina: Greenpeace difunde lista de más de 300 empresarios y compañías que deforestaron en los últimos 30 años
23 May 2020
21 May 2020 | Greenpeace La organización ambientalista difundió más de 300 nombres de grandes (...)
Una ley de Reforma Agraria Antidemocrática amenaza el acceso de lxs campesinxs a la tierra en Ucrania
23 May 2020
20 May 2020 | La Vía Campesina ECVC junto a URDN, Bankwatch y Eco Action exigen que el Gobierno (...)
Chinese sugar company leases parts of Cambodian land concession to farmers
22 May 2020
20 May 2020 | Radio Free Asia A Chinese sugar company with a large long-term land concession in (...)
Exigimos justicia y seguridad para los trabajadores en las plantaciones de caucho y palma aceitera de Socfin durante la pandemia de COVID 19
22 May 2020
12 May 2020 | Antena África Europa Fe-Justicia Madrid Nosotros, los abajo firmantes, les (...)
Hewitt Cattle Australia lists Charters Tower aggregation for sale amid focus shift to organic
21 May 2020
14 May 2020 | GAI Hewitt Cattle Australia, a joint partner of Canadian pension fund – Public (...)
BrasilAgro’s string of new farmland acquisitions signals ongoing land speculation
21 May 2020
21 May 2020 | CRR BrasilAgro, which recently merged with farmland investor Agrifirma, continues (...)
International Monetary Fund leverages COVID-19 economic fallout to create a land market in Ukraine despite widespread opposition
21 May 2020
21 May 2020 | Oakland Institute While conditionalities accompanying Western foreign assistance (...)
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact is a threat to people’s sovereignty
21 May 2020
21 May 2020 | LVC South Asia In response to resistance from people’s movements, Sri Lanka has (...)
Indonesia: Blogger held over land dispute report
20 May 2020
18 May 2020 | Human Rights Watch The Indonesian police in South Kalimantan province should drop (...)
China gets the meat that risks U.S. workers’ lives. Missouri helped it happen.
19 May 2020
19 May 2020 | St. Louis Post In 2013, Missouri’s legislature pushed through a law altering a (...)
Land conflicts flare across South-East Asia during coronavirus lockdowns
19 May 2020
18 May 2020 | The Star The pandemic has opened an opportunity for activities such as illegal (...)
After seven years, displaced Zambian villagers might get land
19 May 2020
19 May 2020 | Mail & Guardian High Court in Lusaka rules that the conversion of village (...)
Nigeria: Abiodun commends GroupFarma’s new 2,500 hectares of premium rice
19 May 2020
19 May 2020 | Business AM Prince Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State governor, has lauded an agrictech (...)
Liberia : le producteur d’huile de palme Golden Veroleum réduit sa masse salariale de 10 %
18 May 2020
18 May 2020 | Agence Ecofin GVL, le premier producteur d’huile de palme au Libéria disposant de (...)
15 minutes with .... the founders of Perita Capital Management
17 May 2020
01 May 2020 | GAI Boston-based Peritia Capital Management invests in hard assets or (...)
Human Rights Watch submission to the UK International Development Committee
17 May 2020
17 May 2020 | HRW Human Rights Watch found that DFID's CDC Group failed to ensure that the palm (...)
Finnfund invests US$15m in African agri supply chain business ETG
15 May 2020
14 May 2020 | FBA Finnfund, a development financer, has invested US$15 million in a syndicate (...)
EPP proposes law to protect small farmers against oligarchs
15 May 2020
14 May 2020 | Euractiv The European People’s Party has proposed an EU law to prevent oligarchs (...)
UAE: ADQ to buy 50 percent stake in agri-food company
14 May 2020
14 May 2020 | albawaba Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company has acquired a 50% stake in Al (...)
Phoenix Global: Top global rice trader and farmland owner goes bust
13 May 2020
13 May 2020 | GRAIN Phoenix Global - the Dubai-based agri-trader which directly farmed more (...)
Brasil: Grilagem financiada pela Universidade de Harvard afeta vida de comunidades locais
13 May 2020
12 May 2020 | Brasil de Fato Relatório denuncia sistema que burla a lei brasileira e permite (...)
Feronia Inc. announces changes to board of directors
12 May 2020
12 May 2020 | EIN News DR Congo's largest plantation company announces resignation of its (...)
Australian farmland in high demand
12 May 2020
12 May 2020 | Farm Weekly The past few years has seen a steep increase in the players involved (...)
Brazil: Deforestation on indigenous lands increases 59% in the first months of 2020
12 May 2020
12 May 2020 | Greenpeace Greenpeace finds that 1,319 hectares of forest - equivalent to 1,800 (...)
Philippines: DA backs ANI, IP groups tie-up for rice-corn project
12 May 2020
11 May 2020 | PNA The "BigMa" rice-corn blending initiative of listed firm AgriNurture, Inc. (...)
New bill could legalize ‘land banking’ by Indonesian plantation firms
12 May 2020
11 May 2020 | Mongabay A little-known provision in a sweeping deregulation package before the (...)
Groups call on Harvard University to stop land grabs as new report exposes harm done to communities in Brazil
12 May 2020
12 May 2020 | Medium Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard joins international civil society groups to (...)
Belfius: palm oil, exploited minors and pollution in sustainable investment funds
11 May 2020
02 May 2020 | RTBF "Have you ever seen a communications specialist of a corporate group admit, (...)
FGV to start direct presence in India’s food, agri-based products market
8 May 2020
08 May 2020 | Malay Mail Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures is forming a joint-venture with (...)
Razing the stakes
8 May 2020
07 May 2020 | Global Witness Controversial hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey invested more than (...)
Report from World Bank/IFC’s Compliance Advisory Ombudsman on the case of Salala Rubber Corporation
8 May 2020
31 Mar 2020 | IFC/CAO SOCFIN's subsidiary, the Salala Rubber Corporation, rejects dispute (...)
US-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food
8 May 2020
07 May 2020 | ActionAid, IATP The US Trade Representative has stated that restrictions in the (...)
Olam to terminate sale and revenue share arrangement of US onion, garlic processing plant
6 May 2020
05 May 2020 | Business Times Due to "significant financial market disruption/challenge arising (...)
Swedbank 2007 Romania junk bond land scheme investigation closure appealed
6 May 2020
05 May 2020 | ERR Victims of an alleged 2007 land investment fraud scheme in Romania say they (...)
Chiwenga courts private sector, commercial farmers
6 May 2020
05 May 2020 | Bulawayo 24 Zimbabawe's Government cites pandemic in allocating 7,000 hectares of (...)
Macquarie’s Viridis Ag, Primewest lead strong run of rural deals
6 May 2020
03 May 2020 | CRE Macquarie-backed Viridis Ag has bulked up its national broadacre cropping (...)
‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives
6 May 2020
01 May 2020 | Mongabay In the Brazilian Cerrado, on the nation’s agricultural frontier, rapid (...)
Organizaciones instan al gobiernos a proteger a los y las activistas y a las comunidades amenazadas por grupos armados durante la pandemia de COVID-19
6 May 2020
05 May 2020 | FIDH Colombia y Honduras son considerados como dos de los países más peligrosos del (...)
Mali : l’Office du Niger met 5000 hectares à la disposition de la diaspora
5 May 2020
04 May 2020 | Financiañ Afrik Le partenariat va permettre d’installer les entrepreneurs de la (...)
The dangers of legalising public land theft in Brazil : agribusiness, deforestation, and the melting pot of future pandemics
2 May 2020
02 May 2020 | GRAIN The type of land use, the concentration of land and natural resources, the (...)
Belfius: huile de palme, mineurs exploités et pollution dans un fonds durable
2 May 2020
02 May 2020 | RTBF Emmanuel Morimont, journaliste au RTBF, raconte l'histoire de son enquête sur (...)
Communiqué de presse de la Socapalm
2 May 2020
01 May 2020 | Socapalm En réponse à l'émission #Investigation de la RTBF du 29 avril (...)
Legalização do grande roubo de terras públicas no Brasil: agronegócio, desmatamento e o caldeirão de futuras pandemias
1 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 | GRAIN Esta ampliação da apropriação privada sobre os espaços públicos de proteção (...)
FirstFarms A/S signs Head of Terms about sale of 1,675 hectares of land in West Romania
1 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 | First Farms The Danish company's West Romania operations constitute 5 percent of (...)
Russia’s VTB finds partners for growth of grain business
1 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 | Reuters The largest operator of Russia’s grain export infrastructure and a major (...)
Japfa to sell stake in China dairy business to Meiji for $254m
30 April 2020
17 Apr 2020 | Foodbev Japfa’s AustAsia operates seven farms in China with roughly 80,000 cows (...)
L’impact nocif du secteur de l’huile de palme une fois de plus dévoilé, dans une investigation sur des investissements - soit disant - “éthiques”
30 April 2020
30 Apr 2020 | FIAN Belgium Salaires en-dessous du minimum légal, pollution de cours d’eau, (...)
Banques : sur les routes cachées de notre argent
30 April 2020
29 Apr 2020 | RTBF Enquête de la télévision belge sur les plantations Socfin au (...)
Olam secures a US$176 million term loan from IFC and JICA
30 April 2020
30 Apr 2020 | Olam The funds will be used for the procurement of specific agri-commodities from (...)
We demand justice and safety for workers on Socfin’s rubber/oil palm plantations during the Covid-19 pandemic
29 April 2020
29 Apr 2020 | Various Letter from African community organisations to SOCFIN regarding the (...)
Zelensky enacts law on farmland sale in Ukraine from July 2021
29 April 2020
29 Apr 2020 | UNIAN The law allows for the phasing in of private farmland sales in (...)
Saudi Arabia makes first wheat purchase from overseas farmland investment
27 April 2020
27 Apr 2020 | Reuters Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO on Monday said it bought 60,000 (...)
Brasil: Em meio à pandemia de Covid-19, MP que pretende legalizar o maior roubo de terras públicas da história do país pode ser votada na Câmara
22 April 2020
21 Apr 2020 | Carta de Belem Em tempos de crise sanitária e econômica devido à pandemia do (...)
UAE’s Al Dahra signs crop deal with Bulgaria-based AJD Agro
21 April 2020
21 Apr 2020 | Reuters Abu Dhabi-based agriculture firm Al Dahra Holding has signed a crop (...)
Ukraine: Opening the land market
21 April 2020
20 Apr 2020 | Lexology On 31 March 2020, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the new Law No. (...)
How the present day land-grabbing in Africa is forcing thousands to migrate to Europe
17 April 2020
16 Apr 2020 | The Voice In an excerpt from his new book Why We Are Coming, author Yasin Kakande (...)
Commercial farms’ domino effect on banks
17 April 2020
16 Apr 2020 | Addis Fortune The Development Bank of Ethiopia suspending loans for commercial (...)
For Brazilian agribusiness, leaving the Amazon forested is ‘a problem’
16 April 2020
16 Apr 2020 | Mongabay Agribusiness proponents in the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Acre and (...)
The NCH agribusiness story
16 April 2020
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Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia
16 April 2020
15 Apr 2020 | Mongabay On March 21, security personnel from the palm oil firm PT Artha Prigel (...)
L’Ukraine enclenche la libéralisation de son marché foncier
16 April 2020
16 Apr 2020 | Vatican News Alexandra Goujon, politologue spécialiste de l’Ukraine à Sciences Po, (...)
Cameroun : un projet de concession de 150 000 hectares de forêt rencontre l’opposition de Greenpeace et des populations
16 April 2020
15 Apr 2020 | Agence Ecofin Les 150 000 ha seront scindés en deux concessions voisines de la (...)
Some 60% of Ukrainians not support land sale law, 46% against cooperation with IMF – social survey
16 April 2020
15 Apr 2020 | Interfax If a national referendum on the sale of agricultural land was held in (...)
ARGAȚII
15 April 2020
19 May 2019 | RISE Moldova While the Law on how to sell and buy agricultural land prohibits (...)
Ukraine’s Rada fails to pass all draft resolutions blocking farmland bill
15 April 2020
14 Apr 2020 | UNIAN The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has failed to pass any of the (...)
AAM’s diversified agriculture fund acquires Terrick Station as cornerstone asset
15 April 2020
09 Apr 2020 | GAI The Australian fund has confirmed that it has completed an off-market deal to (...)
Coronavirus may help spur aquaculture investments in Africa
15 April 2020
14 Apr 2020 | Undercurrent News IDH is working with FMO, the Dutch development bank -- which (...)
Bolloré facing the landless peasants
13 April 2020
10 Oct 2019 | Seuil French lawyer Fiodor Rilov's account the lawsuit brought by Bunong (...)
Recette pour le désastre : Le rôle du FMI et de la Banque mondiale dans la financiarisation de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture
11 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food (...)
En Roumanie, une agriculture de subsistance aux côtés des agroholdings
10 April 2020
10 Apr 2020 | Avenir Agricole Les agroholdings sont financées par des capitaux privés étrangers (...)
The globalization of farmland: Theory and empirical evidence
10 April 2020
22 Jun 2018 | IMF This IMF/WB paper provides both theoretical and empirical evidence of (...)
Bucolic botch: Why big farms flopped in Ethiopia
9 April 2020
09 Apr 2020 | Economist Too few investors knew the land; too many deals were crooked. Yet (...)
« La Chine reste un acteur discret dans l’agriculture africaine malgré les nombreuses polémiques » (Fred Gale)
9 April 2020
08 Apr 2020 | Agence Ecofin « Les acquisitions foncières (de la Chine) ne sont pas aussi immenses (...)
Why big farms flopped in Ethiopia
9 April 2020
09 Apr 2020 | The Economist Too few investors knew the land. Some were incompetent. Too many (...)
Participation of legal entities in land turnover, conducting of referendum on time to determine ultimate success of land reform – IFC
8 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | Interfax The International Finance Corporation welcome Ukraine's newly adopted (...)
Saudi Arabia asks private sector to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | Reuters Saudi Arabia's state grain buyer SAGO is asking Saudi investors with (...)
Land seizures and COVID-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
7 April 2020
04 Apr 2020 | Reuters While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of Indigenous peoples in (...)
Kenya: Trouble brewing in Yala Swamp as villagers accuse tycoons of grabbing their farm
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | Kenya News Villagers say trouble began when a new investor, Lake Agro Limited, (...)
Over $131 billion assets under management in food & ag sector, new GAI Rankings Report finds
7 April 2020
06 Apr 2020 | HighQuest The GAI Rankings Report highlights the significance of capital being (...)
Opportunities in the new era of fragility
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | GAI HighQuest Partners has documented an additional 100 ag investors that have (...)
Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | BWP World Bank and IMF policies have provided key support for the (...)
L’Ukraine perd ses terres, Zelensky perd le pouvoir
7 April 2020
06 Apr 2020 | Donbass Insider Espérant recevoir une autre tranche du FMI, fin mars 2020, les « (...)
Recherche: Etudes de cas sur les terres et les sols Africains
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | AFSA AFSA lance une invitation à s'impliquer dans la documentation des études de (...)
Wanted: African land & soil case studies
7 April 2020
07 Apr 2020 | AFSA AFSA invites people to get involved in documenting African land and soil (...)
Trouble brewing in Yala Swamp as villagers accuse tycoons of grabbing their farms
7 April 2020
06 Apr 2020 | Kenya News A clash is looming in Yala Swamp, as villagers accuse new investor, (...)
UAE agriculture tech start-up secures $120 million investment commitment
6 April 2020
06 Apr 2020 | Reuters Wafra International, an investment firm owned by the Kuwait state pension (...)
Lao villagers lose farmland to Chinese banana grower
6 April 2020
03 Apr 2020 | Radio Free Asia Villagers in Laos say a Chinese-owned banana plantation has (...)
Uganda: Land rights defenders charged with criminal trespass, released on police bond
4 April 2020
03 Apr 2020 | witnessradio.org Soldiers protecting a Kiryandongo Sugar tractor arrested and (...)
Unravelling the Socfin/Bolloré plantations, thanks to Profundo
3 April 2020
02 Apr 2020 | GRAIN To help share Profundo's report more widely, we made two infographics from (...)
Décryptage des plantations Socfin/Bolloré, grâce à Profundo
3 April 2020
02 Apr 2020 | GRAIN Pour aider à partager plus largement le rapport de Profundo, nous en avons (...)
Cono Sur de América Latina: Mucha tierra en pocas manos
3 April 2020
01 Apr 2020 | Agencia de Noticias Biodiversidadla.org En el Cono Sur se desarrolla una reforma (...)
Local firm exports first batch of bananas to China
1 April 2020
02 Jan 2020 | bizhub Vietnam's HAGL Agrico, which has 18,000ha of agricultural land worth about (...)
Ukraine passes IMF-backed land reform bill, social cuts as coronavirus spreads
1 April 2020
01 Apr 2020 | World Socialist A law to privatise farmland, ultimately for the benefit of global (...)
L’Ukraine lève le moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles contre l’aide du FMI
1 April 2020
31 Mar 2020 | Donbass Insider Dans la nuit du 30 au 31 mars 2020, la Rada a voté la levée du (...)
Australia: Foreigners face extra FIRB hurdles buying farms during virus emergency
31 March 2020
31 Mar 2020 | Register Foreign buyers stepping into the rural property or agribusiness sector (...)
Two MPs block signing of Ukrainian farmland market bill
31 March 2020
31 Mar 2020 | UNIAN Two Ukrainian legislators have blocked the signing of the law lifting the (...)
Ukraine opens up land market in bid for $8 billion IMF package
31 March 2020
31 Mar 2020 | Reuters Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to lift a ban on the sale of (...)
Interview with Mrs Marie Noelle ETONDE, SYNAPARCAM (Cameroun)
31 March 2020
30 Mar 2020 | Landcam In Cameroon, women are the ones who bring food home, and when there is (...)
L’Ukraine adopte une réforme foncière "historique" pour obtenir l’aide du FMI
31 March 2020
31 Mar 2020 | Belga Le parlement ukrainien a définitivement voté dans la nuit de lundi à mardi (...)
Ukraine’s land market bill: amended draft limits purchases to 100 ha per buyer
31 March 2020
30 Mar 2020 | UNIAN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Office says they have amended the (...)
As COVID-19 crisis rages, 119 groups from 30 countries push urgent demands for rural peoples
30 March 2020
30 Mar 2020 | PCFS Global Statement makes five demands to protect the rights of rural people (...)
Hungary held liable for expropriating the investment of a British investor and ordered to pay EUR 7 million in compensation for damages
30 March 2020
10 Mar 2020 | IISD On November 13, 2019, an ICSID tribunal ordered Hungary to pay damages to a (...)
L’Ukraine craint la faillite du pays, dont l’économie va plonger
30 March 2020
30 Mar 2020 | Capital.fr Kiev pourrait tomber en défaut de paiement si le gouvernement ne reçoit (...)
Kidnapping, torture, and stolen land: The brutal reality of Ethiopia’s new sugar wars
30 March 2020
27 Mar 2020 | VICE Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect (...)
Position statement by women living in the vicinity of agro-industries on the respect of their land rights
30 March 2020
30 Mar 2020 | LandCam Women living in the vicinity of eight agro-industrial plantations in (...)
Duxton Asset Management and its investment in Tanzanian rice farming
27 March 2020
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Uganda: Multinationals are using violence as a weapon in the Covid-19 lockdown to dispossess communities
26 March 2020
26 Mar 2020 | witnessradio.org As Uganda begins a 32 day COVID – 19 lockdown, multinational (...)
Création d’une pépinière d’entreprises à l’agropole de Kara au Togo
26 March 2020
25 Mar 2020 | Commodafrica Le Togo va lancer une pépinière d’entreprises dans l’agropole de 165 (...)
Palm oil giant Olam under scrutiny again over Gabon plantations
26 March 2020
25 Mar 2020 | Mongabay The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) has accused Singapore-based (...)
IMF in talks to increase its assistance to Ukraine to $9.5bn
25 March 2020
25 Mar 2020 | Intellinews The IMF is said to be making the passage of a law to privatise (...)
Rapport du Comité technique sur le différend foncier de la chefferie de Malen dans le district de Pujehun
25 March 2020
23 Mar 2020 | CGLTE Le mandat du comité était d’enquêter et d’émettre des recommandations qui (...)
New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project
25 March 2020
24 Mar 2020 | The Gecko Project The Digoel Agri Group has begun operating in an Indonesia mega (...)
Di tengah pandemi Covid19 dan ancaman krisis pangan, perusahaan perkebunan dan aparat menggusur dan membunuh petani lahat; dua petani tewas, dua kritis
25 March 2020
22 Mar 2020 | Walhi Ditengah ancaman krisis pangan akibat wabah Covid19 yang semakin meluas, (...)
China encourages firms to raise pigs overseas to plug domestic pork shortage
23 March 2020
17 Mar 2020 | Reuters China has urged local authorities to support qualified domestic firms to (...)
Unfair trade: How Dutch rose growers avoid paying taxes in Kenya
23 March 2020
23 Mar 2020 | The Elephant Dutch flower growers who dominate the flower farms in Kenya are (...)
Chinese soybeans grown in Russia want subsidies
23 March 2020
15 Mar 2020 | Dimsums Blogspot China grow more soybeans in Russia to replace imported American (...)
SOCAPALM, Groupe BOLLORE et Groupe SOCFIN, au Cameroun : Communiqué de suivi du PCN français
20 March 2020
18 Mar 2020 | DG Trésor Le PCN recommande au Groupe Bolloré de veiller à exercer son devoir de (...)
Report of the Technical Committee on the Malen Chiefdom Land Dispute in Pujehun District
20 March 2020
20 Mar 2020 | Government of Sierra Leone The mandate of the committee was to enquire into and (...)
Le gouvernement décidé à mettre fin à la spéculation foncière
20 March 2020
20 Mar 2020 | Malijet Le gouvernement du Mali vient d’adopter un projet de loi domaniale et (...)
Palm oil firm has farmers jailed for harvesting from land it stole from them
18 March 2020
17 Mar 2020 | Mongabay PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun, an affiliate to one of palm oil trader (...)
Argentina: Benetton plantó su arbolito
17 March 2020
17 Mar 2020 | El Cohete a la Luna El grupo Benetton recibió fondos públicos no reintegrables para (...)
À Abidjan, l’Église ouest-africaine à l’heure de Laudato Si
13 March 2020
11 Mar 2020 | Africa La Croix Du 9 au 14 mars, évêques, prêtres et laïcs membres des Caritas, (...)
Behind the findings of the Global AgInvesting rankings & trends report 2019
12 March 2020
12 Mar 2020 | GAI This report highlights nearly 700 organizations that are investing in food (...)
Seeds of Gulf-Africa agribusiness
11 March 2020
11 Mar 2020 | Cairo Review When Gulf nations face food, security, and water scarcity issues, (...)
Vietnamese company buys three cattle stations, with plans to expand into cotton and tourism
10 March 2020
10 Mar 2020 | ABC The TH Group has settled a deal to buy three Top End cattle stations in (...)
How palm oil production is fuelling land grabs, environmental degradation and repression in the DR Congo, and the Canadian connection
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | Amandla There are many Canadian connections to this story, including the (...)
Development or exploitation? The cry of rural women in Sierra Leone
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | Culture Radio The women of Malen, who are struggling to get their lands back from (...)
Mega Chinese wool processor grabs another Victorian farm
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | Farm Online China's biggest buyer of Australian wool is reported to have added to (...)
Food-insecure Zimbabwe turns to Belarus to revive agric sector
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | Independent President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to parcel out vast tracts of (...)
Saudi-based Bateel to expand farming operations into Africa
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | Arabian Business Saudi-based gourmet date connoisseur Bateel has revealed that (...)
«L’appel à Almarai semble être plutôt une démarche politicienne»
9 March 2020
09 Mar 2020 | El Watan L’invitation officielle adressée au groupe saoudien Almarai d’investir en (...)
Poor families claim land concession sold to others
9 March 2020
04 Mar 2020 | Phnom Penh Post A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community (...)
Land grabbing by agribusiness also claims lives in Latin America
6 March 2020
06 Mar 2020 | GRAIN Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands (...)
Fields of gold: Commodities kingpin leaves a troubling legacy in Moldova
5 March 2020
05 Mar 2020 | Mongabay A Mongabay investigation traces the rise and fall of a billion-dollar (...)
APG sets up natural resources desk in Asia buildout
5 March 2020
21 Oct 2019 | Asian Investor Europe’s biggest pension fund manager is set to expand its Asia (...)
Nigeria : le singapourien Olam poursuit son aventure dans la tomate
5 March 2020
04 Mar 2020 | Agence Ecofin À côté de ses propres plantations de 20 ha, la compagnie a acquis 500 (...)
Tory donor invested in firm linked to Amazon deforestation
4 March 2020
04 Mar 2020 | Guardian Odey Asset Management is understood to have sizeable stake in Brazilian (...)
South Korean trading giant to compensate for past deforestation in Papua
4 March 2020
04 Mar 2020 | Eco-Business Posco International’s new zero deforestation policy comes after years (...)
Colombia: La chispa que prende los incendios de La Macarena
4 March 2020
01 Mar 2020 | La Silla Vacía Lo que hay es un fenómeno sin control de acaparamiento de tierras (...)
Argentina: Comunidad mapuche de Costa del Lepá denunció a Benetton por bloquear un camino vecinal
4 March 2020
21 Feb 2020 | El Extremo Sur «Los de la estancia nos pusieron candados nuevos, nos cerraron los (...)
Olam pledges to boost agric value chain
3 March 2020
03 Mar 2020 | This Day Olam has embarked on a pilot tomato farming project through its (...)
Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua
3 March 2020
02 Mar 2020 | Mongabay The Indonesian minister in charge of investments, Luhut Pandjaitan, has (...)
El acaparamiento de tierras por el agronegocio también se cobra vidas en América Latina
2 March 2020
28 Feb 2020 | GRAIN El grupo empresario Cresud controla 370 mil hectáreas en la provincia de (...)
Des Camerounais, pions des envahisseurs fonciers étrangers
2 March 2020
29 Feb 2020 | EcoMatin Les populations victimes des accaparements des terres sont unanimes; il (...)
ANZ agrees to landmark settlement with Cambodian farmers displaced by sugar company it financed
27 February 2020
27 Feb 2020 | IDI The ANZ bank has agreed to provide a financial package to Cambodian families (...)
Uganda: 35,000 left homeless as private firms share Kiryandongo land
26 February 2020
25 Feb 2020 | Daily Monitor More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being (...)
Henri Eyebe Ayissi veut assainir le secteur foncier au Cameroun en 2020
25 February 2020
24 Feb 2020 | Eco Matin Au Cameroun, le ministre des Domaines, du Cadastre et des Affaires (...)
Zone économique spéciale en perspective : Le vice-ministre japonais sonde le parc industriel
25 February 2020
22 Feb 2020 | Le Quotidien Des entreprises japonaises de l'agrobusiness pourraient s'installer (...)
An enormous land transition is underway. Here’s how to make it just.
24 February 2020
24 Feb 2020 | Civil Eats In the next decade, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change (...)
Massive farm sale makes Western Australian history
21 February 2020
21 Feb 2020 | The Standard Daybreak Cropping, a partnership between Warakirri Asset Management (...)
Perú, Ucayali: derogan ley que promovía tráfico de tierras y deforestación
21 February 2020
20 Feb 2020 | Servindi El Consejo Regional de Ucayali decidió derogar la Ordenanza Regional N.º (...)
Au Gabon, les communautés confrontées aux engagements de déforestation zéro de la société agroalimentaire OLAM
21 February 2020
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Case study: Agrivision- A staple food producer in Zambia
20 February 2020
20 Jan 2020 | Norfund Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national (...)
Amaggi negocia compra dos ativos da El Tejar no Brasil
20 February 2020
18 Feb 2020 | Money Times O negócio prevê a compra pela Amaggi de todos os ativos da El Tejar no (...)
Communities facing Zero Deforestation pledges: the case of OLAM in Gabon
19 February 2020
19 Feb 2020 | Muyissi and WRM Muyissi Environnement and WRM report on the experiences of (...)
Soybean mogul negotiating to buy Tejar’s Brazil unit
19 February 2020
19 Feb 2020 | Bloomberg The proposed acquisition of O Telhar by Amaggi encompasses all assets (...)
Land grabbing causing poverty in Africa, Archbishop Kaigama warns
19 February 2020
19 Feb 2020 | CISA Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria and President of RECOWA-CERAO (...)
Greenpeace Africa stands with jailed community leaders in Kisangani
19 February 2020
14 Feb 2020 | Greenpeace Greenpeace Africa joins a call for the release of five community (...)
Call for answers over British government financing of palm oil firm
18 February 2020
16 Feb 2020 | Leigh Day A letter has been sent to financier CDC Group PLC by a group of (...)
Open letter to halt land evictions by agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo District.
18 February 2020
18 Feb 2020 | witnessradio.org Letter calls on UK, US and Dutch governments to investigate the (...)
Litige foncier : Enda Pronat pose le débat
18 February 2020
17 Feb 2020 | Seneweb « Au Sénégal, il y a beaucoup de conflits fonciers. Des conflits parfois (...)
A Kisangani, Greenpeace Afrique soutient les leaders de la communauté de Yalifombo emprisonnés
18 February 2020
14 Feb 2020 | Scoops d'Afrique Greenpeace Afrique, ensemble avec d’autres organizations, (...)
Renforcement du refus du projet Elite Agro LLC dans le Bas-Mangoky
18 February 2020
18 Feb 2020 | TANY Bien que les responsables malgaches répètent que le Memorandum of (...)
Greenpeace respalda a líderes comunitarios en África
18 February 2020
17 Feb 2020 | Mi Punto de Vista La organización ecologista Greenpeace África se unió al llamado (...)
Oposición denuncia en Parlamento Europeo posible privatización de Amazonía colombiana
18 February 2020
16 Feb 2020 | RCN Radio Según el congresista dicho proyecto tiene dos finalidades específicas. (...)
Décrypter le Groupe Socfin
17 February 2020
17 Feb 2020 | Profundo Ce rapport examine les activités du groupe Socfin, une holding basée au (...)
À Abidjan, l’épiscopat ouest-africain réfléchit sur l’exploitation des terres
15 February 2020
14 Feb 2020 | La Croix Africa « Paradoxalement, l’accaparement massif des terres qui se solde par (...)
Fractionalization comes to the market for US farmland
14 February 2020
03 Feb 2020 | Investable Universe Entities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are (...)
Brazilians go to a desert farm
13 February 2020
19 Sep 2019 | ANBA A Brazilian agro industry delegation visited Elite Agro - a major farming (...)
再见 Hengfu (Goodbye, Hengfu)
13 February 2020
13 Feb 2020 | GRAIN Almost a decade since government of Cambodia granted 40,000 hectares land (...)
NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
12 February 2020
25 Dec 2020 | Mongabay A little-known company, Camvert, intends to convert 60,000 hectares of (...)
Cameroun : Le directuer d’une plantation de la Socapalm prive 3000 personnes d’eau
12 February 2020
11 Feb 2020 | Cameroun Web Après avoir vendu l'électricité aux populations riveraines pendant (...)
Alerte ! Libération immédiate de villageois de la RD Congo emprisonnés sur la base de fausses accusations liées à un conflit foncier avec Feronia Inc
12 February 2020
12 Feb 2020 | WRM Les signataires d'une lettre appellent à la libération immédiate de 5 villageois (...)
Action alert! Immediate release of villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned on false charges related to a land conflict with Feronia Inc.
12 February 2020
12 Feb 2020 | WRM Groups issue petition calling for the immediate release of 5 villagers in the (...)
DRC: Feronia security guard acquitted of murdering Congolese land defender
12 February 2020
12 Feb 2020 | RIAO-RDC A security guard for the Canadian oil palm plantation company Feronia (...)
RDC : Un garde de sécurité de Feronia acquitté du meurtre d’un défenseur des terres congolais
12 February 2020
12 Feb 2020 | RIAO-RDC Un chef de sécurité de la société canadienne de plantation de palmiers à (...)
Argentina: Policía intentó impedir el paso a ambientalistas que marchaban a Lago Escondido
11 February 2020
08 Feb 2020 | El Patagónico La marcha “por la soberanía del lago Escondido” comenzó el fin de (...)
Unravelling the Socfin Group
11 February 2020
11 Feb 2020 | Profundo A new report by Profundo provides an overview of the ownership and (...)
Agribusiness company with financial support from UK, US and Netherlands is dispossessing thousands
11 February 2020
11 Feb 2020 | witnessradio.org An agribusiness company supported by the governments of the UK, (...)
Mandalay legislator seeks inspections of farmland for foreign renters
11 February 2020
06 Feb 2020 | Myanmar Times A regional legislator of Myanmar wants the regional government to (...)
New tools help communities affected by AIIB projects defend their rights and the environment
10 February 2020
10 Feb 2020 | IDI IDI releases new resource to equip communities and the activists who support (...)
Palm oil impacted people demand the right to speak out against human rights abuses and environmental destruction
10 February 2020
10 Feb 2020 | FPP A spokesperson for Malaysian palm oil giant, Sime Darby, who labelled NGO (...)
Sierra Leone: Pujehun chiefs prevent donors from monitoring projects
10 February 2020
08 Feb 2020 | Politico SL The project specifically targets families that have been displaced by (...)
Loi foncière : Un retard lié à « une immense consultation », explique Didier Guillaume
10 February 2020
07 Feb 2020 | Terre Net L’accaparement des terres par des sociétés financières étrangères suscite (...)
Sénégal: Moussa Baldé confiant quant à la pérennisation du Pdidas
10 February 2020
07 Feb 2020 | L'une des principales missions du Pdidas, financé par la Banque mondiale, c'est (...)
« Nous avons vu ici un modèle d’agriculture moderne. C’est à dire de l’agro-business » (Moussa Baldé)
10 February 2020
08 Feb 2020 | Dakar Actu Le ministre sénégalais de l'Agriculture et de l'Equipement rural, le (...)
Madagascar: NGOs oppose transfer of 60,000 ha of land to Elite Agro LLC
7 February 2020
05 Feb 2020 | Afrik21 CRAAD-OI and Collectif TANY oppose the occupation of 60,000 hectares of (...)
Les députés ukrainiens se déchirent sur la question des terres agricoles
7 February 2020
06 Feb 2020 | Euronews Une bousculade entre députés a éclaté jeudi au Parlement ukrainien, qui a (...)
Bas-Mangoky : Feu vert des députés pour le projet de partenariat
7 February 2020
07 Feb 2020 | NewsMada Le parlement malgache a egalement révélé que 105.000 ha de terrains (...)
【議事録】国会議員主催「プロサバンナ事業」勉強会(Meeting minutes of debate btw Japanese parliamentarians/NGOs & JICA/MoFA on ProSAVANA)
6 February 2020
06 Feb 2020 | Mokai 2019年12月23日に参議院議員会館で開催された9名の衆参国会議員による主催勉強会、「プロサバンナ事業に関する勉強会」の逐語議事録です。
RDC : Les 5 leaders de Yalifombo emprisonnés depuis septembre sont innocents, les cris du village
5 February 2020
05 Feb 2020 | Congo au jour le jour Unis comme un ananas, les habitants de Yalifombo témoignent (...)
Massive Chinese sugarcane firm disappears from Preah Vihear
5 February 2020
04 Feb 2020 | VoA Cambodia Chinese sugarcane concessionaire Rui Feng and four linked firms (...)
Perú, Piura: La visita del relator de la ONU que alertó a empresas vinculadas al Sodalicio
4 February 2020
30 Jan 2020 | Wayka Michel Forst, hizo un recorrido para conocer la realidad de la comunidad (...)
French group Castel produces maize on Angolan farm
4 February 2020
27 Feb 2019 | Macau Hub The farm currently has 800 hectares planted with maize, 700 more than (...)
South African rich-lister scoops up NT cattle stations for $70m
4 February 2020
04 Feb 2020 | AFR A company backed by one of South Africa’s richest men is setting itself up to (...)
Angola has the potential for large-scale agriculture
4 February 2020
04 Feb 2020 | Macau Hub Angola has a high potential for agriculture on a large scale according (...)
Sucked dry
4 February 2020
01 Feb 2020 | Pulitzer Center Companies from countries across the world have acquired fertile (...)
La nouvelle financiarisation de la fourchette et de la fourche ?
3 February 2020
03 Feb 2020 | Plein champ Les Chambres d'agriculture France posent des questions sur les (...)
Non à la mise à disposition de 60.000 hectares de terres a la société Emiratie Elite Agro LLC à Madagascar
3 February 2020
03 Feb 2020 | Madagascar Tribune Des organisations de la société civile contestent la stratégie (...)
Agriculture : le finlandais Finnfund et le belge BIO investissent dans JTF Madagascar
31 January 2020
31 Jan 2020 | Journal de l'Economie La société JTF Madagascar, filiale de Tozzi Green, a reçu un (...)
Fresh dispute rocks planned Yala swamp takeover
30 January 2020
28 Jan 2020 | Daily Nation The takeover of Yala swamp in Siaya County, Kenya, has run into (...)
EU to send EUR 10 mln for land reform as part of grant support of agriculture development in Ukraine
29 January 2020
29 Jan 2020 | InterFax Support for land reform under the agreement will be carried out under (...)
A Macau company planting the seeds in Portugal
29 January 2020
29 Jan 2020 | Macau Daily The acquisition of one of Portugal’s biggest agricultural companies by (...)
Uganda: Another coffee company is disposing hundreds of native families in Kiryandongo
29 January 2020
17 Jan 2020 | Witness Radio With the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season (...)
Liberia: NGO to assist citizens to protect their land from government officials, companies in Bomi
29 January 2020
29 Jan 2020 | FrontPageAfrica Sustainable Development Institute has begun working with local (...)
Kenya: Fresh dispute rocks planned Yala swamp takeover
29 January 2020
29 Jan 2020 | The Nation Yala swamp in Siaya County whose recently announced takeover has ran (...)
Rabobank and the Dutch government to anchor the AGR13 Fund with investments totaling $80M
29 January 2020
24 Jan 2020 | GAI The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rabobank announced at the World (...)
Charity calls on UK to prosecute British companies that violate human R rights in Liberia
29 January 2020
23 Jan 2020 | FrontPageAfrica A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed (...)
RDC : Une communauté plaignante contre Feronia au couloir de la justice
28 January 2020
27 Jan 2020 | Congo au jour le jour 5 voisins de Yalifombo (Basoko) comparaît devant le tribunal (...)
Olam scinde en deux ses activités agroindustrielles
28 January 2020
24 Jan 2020 | Commodafrica Le géant singapourien de l'agroindustrie, très présent en Afrique, (...)
Vucic and Orban’s agrarian policy
27 January 2020
26 Jan 2020 | Danas Serbia has neither clear rules of the game nor a development strategy for (...)
Sime Darby Plantation completes sale of Liberia operations
24 January 2020
24 Jan 2020 | The Star Sime Darby has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc (...)
TIAA’s farmland funds linked to fires, conflicts and legacy deforestation risks in Brazil
23 January 2020
23 Jan 2020 | CRR CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken (...)
President Julius Maada Bio engages Elite Agro and Spire USA Inc.for an upgrade agriculture industry.
23 January 2020
29 Oct 2019 | Pan African Visions Emirati firm Elite Agro are interested in investing in Sierra (...)
Polémique autour de l’exploitation de 60 000 Ha de terrain par les emiratis
23 January 2020
22 Jan 2020 | Madagascar Tribune La juriste malgache Arlette Ramaroson indique que dans le (...)
Friends of the Earth groups complaint against ING Group admissible, declares OECD
22 January 2020
20 Jan 2020 | Milieudefensie The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic (...)
HMC investment in Westfalia Fruit International to drive global expansion for avocados
21 January 2020
21 Jan 2020 | GAI WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, (...)
Agribusiness as usual: Agricultural technology and the Israeli occupation
21 January 2020
21 Jan 2020 | Who Profits This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms (...)
Sime Darby au Liberia, c’est fini !
21 January 2020
20 Jan 2020 | Agence Ecofin Le malaisien Sime Darby a annoncé un accord de vente et achat de sa (...)
Government agrees to develop agriculture farm and plantation with Elite Agro UAE LLC
21 January 2020
18 Oct 2019 | Sampit Prokal Central Kalimantan provincial government in Indonesia agrees to (...)
For-profit investments are not ‘development’
20 January 2020
20 Jan 2020 | New Internationalist The British government is ramping up its policy to divert (...)
UAE investments: Al Ravafed at loss, unfinished irrigation systems, state land lease price secret
20 January 2020
08 Aug 2019 | Insider The agricultural company Al Ravafed Serbia, a majority-owned company of (...)
Spreading Arabs in Serbia own 12,000 hectares, main competitors Matijevic and Kostic
20 January 2020
12 Apr 2019 | Blic Abu Dhabi-based Elite Agro LLC, a cereal-producing company, recently (...)
[Madagascar] Food self-sufficiency - Emiratis invest in Lower Mangoky
20 January 2020
20 Jan 2020 | L'Express Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy (...)
[Madagascar] Autosuffisance alimentaire – Les Emiratis investissent au Bas Mangoky
20 January 2020
20 Jan 2020 | L'Express Elite Agro LLC, des Emirats arabes Unis, vient de signer un memorandum (...)
Gabon: L’octroi des terres pour inciter à l’agriculture : quelle faisabilité ?
17 January 2020
17 Jan 2020 | Pyramid Media Gabon 45.000 hectares de terres viennent d'être attribuées au (...)
L’industrie agricole n’est pas suffisamment attachée aux droits de l’homme
17 January 2020
14 Jan 2020 | Nouvelles du Monde À l’occasion de la foire agricole de la Semaine verte à Berlin, (...)
Sénégal : les résultats du PDIDAS salués par le président de la Chambre de commerce
17 January 2020
17 Jan 2020 | APS La Chambre de commerce de Saint-Louis félicite le PDIDAS pour avoir instauré (...)
« A Madagascar comme partout sur le continent, les élites africaines accaparent les terres fertiles »
16 January 2020
16 Jan 2020 | Le Monde L’universitaire Christian Bouquet dénonce la situation des petits paysans (...)
US: Bill would halt foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
15 January 2020
15 Jan 2020 | Missourian Rep. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis) has offered House Bill 1492, which would (...)
Ukraine’s farmland market: Finalized bill stipulates no more 10,000 ha per person
15 January 2020
15 Jan 2020 | UNIAN The document says that only individuals who are citizens of Ukraine, legal (...)
Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge
15 January 2020
15 Jan 2020 | Mongabay An executive decree issued by President Bolsonaro late last year could (...)
Agrinurture plans corn plantation in Palawan province
14 January 2020
27 Dec 2019 | Manila Standard Agrinurture Inc. is in talks with the Department of Justice (...)
Sunbird takes cassava production head-on
13 January 2020
13 Jan 2020 | Daily Mail Mauritius-based Sunbird Bionergy is pursuing a US$190 million cassava (...)
Togo: Sensibilisation autour du guide pour l’engagement communautaire sensible au genre dans les investissements fonciers à grande échelle
13 January 2020
10 Jan 2020 | Telegramme 228 Oxfam a développé un guide sur les investissements fonciers à grande (...)
The rise and fall of ProSavana
11 January 2020
10 Jan 2020 | Observador Rural This paper explores the history of one of the world’s largest (...)
Acquisition des terres agricoles : levée des restrictions pour les investisseurs
10 January 2020
09 Jan 2020 | EcoActu Le Conseil de gouvernement du Maroc a examiné un projet de loi relatif aux (...)
Achat de terres agricoles: Fin de la marocanisation?
10 January 2020
08 Jan 2020 | L'Economiste Le conseil de gouvernement examine un projet de loi qui mettra fin à (...)
Holde Agri Invest attracts RON 10 million from BVB investors
8 January 2020
08 Jan 2020 | Business Review Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian agricultural company operating (...)
50,000-hectare palm oil plantation to be developed in Caraga region
8 January 2020
08 Jan 2020 | Manila Bulletin Eastern Petroleum Group of Companies is planning to develop an (...)
What is land grabbing? A critical review of existing definitions
8 January 2020
08 Jan 2016 | Eco Ruralis Eco Ruralis presents a definitional framework for land grabbing and (...)
Criminal trial for 28 land rights defenders set to resume
8 January 2020
08 Jan 2020 | witnessradio.org The land defenders were arrested for defending over 3000 people (...)
À Madagascar, l’accaparement des terres peut prendre des formes diverses
8 January 2020
07 Jan 2020 | The Conversation À Madagascar, plusieurs milliers d’hectares de terres sont (...)
Unhealed scars in Papua
7 January 2020
12 Dec 2019 | APIL NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO (...)
Feronia announces missed debenture interest payment
6 January 2020
02 Jan 2020 | Globe Newswire With the aim of improving its financial resources, management is (...)
Ukraine farmers fear for livelihoods as president backs land sales
6 January 2020
27 Dec 2019 | RFI The government initially planned to allow foreigners to buy farmland from (...)
Haro contre le carnage foncier au Walo
6 January 2020
26 Dec 2019 | JDD Memorandum du « Mouvement Citoyen contre l’Accaparement et l’Aliénation des (...)
Liberia’s miracle oil brings farmers only empty promises
3 January 2020
03 Jan 2020 | The Guardian Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations (...)
Rendez nos terres: l’histoire d’un accaparement au Cameroun
2 January 2020
30 Dec 2019 | Museba Project Mbonjo, petit village du littoral camerounais, est victime d'un (...)
Ethiopie : le magnat saoudo-éthiopien Mohammed al-Amoudi va investir 126 millions $ dans une usine de production d’huile alimentaire
31 December 2019
30 Dec 2019 | Agence Ecofin Al-Amoudi va monter une usine de raffinage d’huile alimentaire, en (...)
Pejabat pemerintah ungkap ada dugaan pemalsuan izin perkebunan sawit di Papua
20 December 2019
18 Dec 2019 | The Gecko Project Pejabat pemerintah daerah mengungkapkan dugaan pemalsuan (...)
Vente de terres agricoles en Ukraine: violente manifestation devant le Parlement
19 December 2019
19 Dec 2019 | RFI Plusieurs milliers de personnes, des fermiers mais aussi des militants (...)
Protests in Ukraine over lifting moratorium on sale of land
18 December 2019
18 Dec 2019 | Oakland Institute So far dozens have been arrested with one reported fatality (...)
¡La lucha contra Senhuile continúa!
18 December 2019
18 Dec 2019 | GRAIN Hoy, las comunidades de Ndiaël que lucharon contra Senhuile desde que ésta (...)
The fight against Senhuile goes on!
18 December 2019
18 Dec 2019 | GRAIN Today, the communities of the Ndiaël that fought Senhuile since it arrived (...)
La lutte contre Senhuile continue !
18 December 2019
18 Dec 2019 | GRAIN Aujourd’hui, les communautés du Ndiaël qui ont combattu Senhuile depuis son (...)
New report: ‘The laws of land grabs in Asia Pacific’
18 December 2019
16 Dec 2019 | FoE Asia Pacific On December 13, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) (...)
Uzbek farmers get ’cluster’ bombed by reforms
17 December 2019
17 Dec 2019 | Radio Free Europe Uzbekistan's cluster system is essentially a new form of (...)
Ukraine farmers who endured Hitler, Stalin now fear markets
17 December 2019
17 Dec 2019 | Bloomberg Ukrainians are concerned that cash-flush foreigners could snap up one (...)
Cameroon: Moungo local chiefs decry desecration of their cultural heritage
17 December 2019
16 Dec 2019 | Guardian Post Traditional authorities of Mbonjo, a village located in Moungo (...)
China-Africa: "Huge" ag cooperation potential
17 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | Dimsums Blogspot China hosted African agricultural leaders for a forum to expand (...)
Optimum compró más tierras y expande sus operaciones agrícolas en Estados Unidos
17 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | Infobae La compañía líder en agricultura concentrada adquirió 2261 hectáreas en (...)
Borneo in fiamme per l’olio di palma, il report CNN. Buycott!
16 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/consum-attori/borneo-in-fiamme-per-l-olio-di-palm
Pressure on Lankan government to drastically modify MCC Compact
16 December 2019
13 Dec 2019 | Lanka Web Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are (...)
Le Cameroun cherche des investisseurs pour un projet de riziculture sur plus de 10 000 hectares dans l’Extrême-Nord
13 December 2019
13 Dec 2019 | Investir au Cameroun Le gouvernement camerounais a lancé un avis à manifestation (...)
Forum africain sur la gouvernance foncière
12 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | Africa 24 Organisé par la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l'eau (...)
Uganda: Oxfam says government wrong on land
11 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | The Independent The government has prioritised provision of land to investors, (...)
Kazakhstan inks agreements with agribusiness giants Tyson Foods, Valmont Industries
11 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | Astana Times Tyson Foods, the largest meat processing company in the U.S., will (...)
Cameroun : L’État abandonne 75 000 ha de terrain à une entreprise étrangère dans la région du Sud
11 December 2019
11 Dec 2019 | Le Bled Parle Plus de 30 communautés, dont les communautés autochtones Baka, vivent (...)
Le difficile combat des défenseurs de l’environnement au Cameroun
11 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | VoA Au Cameroun, les défenseurs de l’environnement subissent toutes sortes de (...)
Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified
11 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | Mongabay Indonesian government have alleged that permits underpinning a (...)
Coalition, firm differ over alleged land grabbing in Okomu
10 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | Guardian A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's (...)
Feronia Inc. announces $11 million short-term loan facility
10 December 2019
29 Nov 2019 | Globe Newswire The loan to the Canadian palm oil company operating in the DR (...)
845 hectares à 33 millions pour une entreprise française : les populations de Dya disent niet au maire
10 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | Senenews Au courant d’une énième tentative d’accaparement de leur terre, les (...)
Cambodian villagers block digging work by Chinese company
10 December 2019
03 Dec 2019 | RFA Villagers believe that local authorities have illegally conspired to sell a (...)
Human Rights Day 2019: Land-related killings go up
10 December 2019
10 Dec 2019 | PANAP The Philippines, Brazil and Colombia ranked as the deadliest countries for (...)
Ukranians reject the forced "free sale" of their land
10 December 2019
06 Dec 2019 | farmlandgrab.org Open letter to the heads of the World Bank, the International (...)
Indian billionaire eyes Zim prime agric land
10 December 2019
09 Dec 2019 | Herald Indian billionaire and Pepsi International franchise holder Ravi Jaipuria (...)
Palme de l’huile glissante pour les banques de développement
9 December 2019
09 Dec 2019 | Afrimag Bien que HRW mette directement en cause la responsabilité des entreprises (...)
Sime Darby to sell Liberia plantation to local manufacturer
7 December 2019
07 Dec 2019 | Reuters Malaysia’s Sime Darby says it will sell its underperforming palm oil (...)
Cameroon: Safacam plans to invest XAF3.5 bln to extend its oil palm and hevea plantations in Dizangué
6 December 2019
06 Dec 2019 | Business in Cameroon The government of Cameroon recently granted an additional (...)
NGOs brought before Luxembourg judge in Socfin defamation case
6 December 2019
05 Dec 2019 | Chronicle Four NGOs and seven of their employees were summoned to appear before (...)
Cameroun: Palmier à huile, Hévéa – 2 000 hectares de plus pour un opérateur
6 December 2019
05 Dec 2019 | Cameroun Tribune La Société africaine forestière et agricole du Cameroun (Safacam), (...)
Des ONG dénoncent les nouvelles poursuites-bâillons du groupe agro-industriel SOCFIN
5 December 2019
05 Dec 2019 | FIAN Belgium Du 2 au 5 décembre, 4 ONG et 7 de leurs employé.e.s ont été appelé.e.s (...)
Gouvernance foncière : Un forum africain s’ouvre ce jeudi à Sélingué sur la question
5 December 2019
05 Dec 2019 | Maliweb Au Mali, les mobilisations au niveau national ont permis de fléchir les (...)
Leading African food investment
5 December 2019
07 Nov 2019 | Africa Global Funds Interview with Phatisa CIO
Land grabbing a growing concern as climate change threatens food production
4 December 2019
27 Nov 2019 | Rabble.ca A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now (...)
Canadian pension fund loads up on Australian water rights and almond farms
3 December 2019
03 Dec 2019 | SMH A Canadian pension fund has bought a huge parcel of Australian permanent (...)
Fast food suppliers importing deforestation and violence from Brazil
3 December 2019
03 Dec 2019 | Greenpeace Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural (...)
Un fonds de pension canadien se dote de droits sur l’eau en Australie et de fermes d’amandiers
3 December 2019
03 Dec 2019 | Jambon Burst Olam a déclaré avoir signé un accord de partage des revenus avec (...)
« Il nous a été demandé de ne plus nous rendre dans la forêt. »
2 December 2019
25 Nov 2019 | Greenpeace Une enquête de Greenpeace met en lumière les violations des droits (...)
Kratie resolves Memot Rubber Plantation land dispute in Snuol
2 December 2019
28 Nov 2019 | Khmer Times Kratie provincial authorities have resolved a land dispute between (...)
Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings
2 December 2019
27 Nov 2019 | Mongabay Brazil’s Federal Police have launched an investigation, dubbed “Operation (...)
Chinese company to build UGX.1.6 trillion fish breeding centre in Uganda
2 December 2019
01 Dec 2019 | PML Daily Hainan Qinfu Foods Company Limited from China is looking for 5,000 (...)
Indigenous Colombians escalate fight to rescue ancestral lands
2 December 2019
01 Dec 2019 | Truthout The Nasa of Colombia are carrying out direct actions in which they cut (...)
New EADI Webinar: This land is your land, this land is my land? (Dec 12)
2 December 2019
02 Dec 2019 | EADI Sylvia Kay and Attila Szocs will discuss their research and activism on land (...)
Liberia: Regional oil palm stakeholders call for community inclusion in natural resource governance
2 December 2019
02 Dec 2019 | Front Page Africa Stakeholders attending a two-day regional dialogue on oil palm (...)
’Not in national interest’: Ministers block foreigners from buying 4500ha of farmland
2 December 2019
02 Dec 2019 | NZ Herald In a rare rejection of New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office (...)
Philippines: Environment chief sued for allowing ’illegal’ operation of coffee plantation
2 December 2019
15 Nov 2019 | CNN An indigenous people's group on Friday filed a case against Environment (...)
【記事翻訳】The Economist誌でのプロサバンナ特集
30 November 2019
30 Nov 2019 | The Economist誌でプロサバンナ特集がありました。 以下のリンクから原文をご覧いただけます。
Liberia: EPO wants to expand its Palm Bay Estate plantations into forests in Grand Bassa
29 November 2019
29 Oct 2019 | SDI Several communities say that Equatorial Palm Oil is continuously (...)
Argentina: Frenaron definitivamente explotación sojera y maicera en zona de islas protegida
29 November 2019
23 Nov 2019 | El Ciudadano Web Holandesa Bema Agri: Desde 2008, la multinacional mantenía la (...)
HRW implica a bancos europeos en abusos de empresa de aceite de palma en RDC
29 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | La Vanguardia Cuatro grandes bancos de desarrollo europeos han invertido millones (...)
Chi Khor Leu land dispute resolution reached
28 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | Phnom Penh Post Ninety-five out of the 317 families who were locked in a (...)
Update on the Independent Investigation commissioned by CDC to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of Joel Imbangola Lokwa
26 November 2019
22 Nov 2019 | CDC Group The CDC Group says that it cannot release the findings of its (...)
DR Congo palm-oil firm Feronia accused of abuses
26 November 2019
26 Nov 2019 | BBC Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been (...)
Australia: Local, offshore funds pounce on $50m of Chinese-owned farms
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | Commercial Real Estate The Chinese exodus from the east coast beef, lamb and (...)
For Gujarat farmers, it’s Africa calling
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | Ahmedabad Mirror Abundance of fertile land, cheap labour and availability of (...)
Nigeria: Firm, Kebbi partner on N20bn tomato factor
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | New Telegraph Deal between the Kebbi Government and the Spanish company GB Foods (...)
Productive agricultural investments versus “land grabs”
25 November 2019
21 Nov 2019 | The Nation Several agribusiness initiatives have stalled due to a combination of (...)
UK development bank accused of failure to safeguard Congolese workers
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | Guardian The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers (...)
Ouverture à Abidjan d’une conférence régionale pour lutter contre la corruption dans le secteur foncier en Afrique
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | APA Organisées par la BAD, ces assises ont pour objectif d'échanger les (...)
DR Congo: Development banks linked to palm oil abuses failed oversight enables labor, environmental harm
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | HRW Four European development banks are financing a palm oil company in the (...)
Letter from NGOs to the UK’s CDC regarding its actions to undermine a community mediation process with Feronia
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | RIAO et al. NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in (...)
A joint statement from CDC Group, BIO, DEG and FMO on the long-term role of Development Finance Institutions in poverty-stricken regions of the world
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | CDC et al. Today’s Human Rights Watch report concerning our shared investment in (...)
RD Congo : Des banques de développement impliquées dans des abus dans le secteur de l’huile de palme
25 November 2019
25 Nov 2019 | HRW Quatre banques de développement européennes financent actuellement une (...)
Laos: NA endorses report on land concessions
25 November 2019
22 Nov 2019 | Vientiane Times The Laos government has awarded land concessions to foreign and (...)
Socfin vs Green Scenery contempt case adjourned again
23 November 2019
22 Nov 2019 | Politico SL The High Court of Sierra Leone adjourned the contempt of court (...)
Vidéo : Accaparements de terres, luttes des communautés et leviers internationaux
22 November 2019
21 Nov 2019 | AGTER Le React et le Collectif citoyen en France contre l'accaparement des terres (...)
Au Cameroun, péril sur la sécurité et la souveraineté alimentaire
22 November 2019
21 Nov 2019 | Scoops d'Afrique Un rapport confirme que les grandes sociétés de monoculture (...)
Gabon : «Touche pas à ma terre» exige toujours la publication des 1534 titres fonciers de l’Etat
22 November 2019
21 Nov 2019 | Gabon Media Time Les membres du mouvement citoyen « Touche pas à ma terre » exigent (...)
Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high under Bolsonaro
22 November 2019
18 Nov 2019 | Al Jazeera At a briefing to discuss the numbers, Minister of the Environment (...)
Madagascar : Les agriculteurs contre un transfert des habitations sur leurs terres agricoles
20 November 2019
20 Nov 2019 | VoA Des centaines d'agriculteurs s'insurgent contre une initiative de la (...)
Argentina: Piden frenar un decreto del presidente Macri que vulnera la Ley de Tierras
20 November 2019
19 Nov 2019 | El Ciudadano Web A través de la modificación, Cambiemos flexibilizó el sistema de (...)
Brazil prosecutors push soy, cattle moratorium to protect natives
19 November 2019
14 Nov 2019 | Reuters In a part of Brazil plagued by land conflicts and violence against (...)
World Bank welcomes "successful first reading" of bill on farmland sale in Ukraine
19 November 2019
15 Nov 2019 | UNIAN "The World Bank Group congratulates the Ukrainian Leadership on the (...)
Stony ground
19 November 2019
16 Nov 2019 | Economist Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique. But (...)
La société publique belge Bio mise en cause pour un investissement en RDC
18 November 2019
18 Nov 2019 | Belga Quatre banques européennes de développement, dont la société publique belge (...)
SOCFIN pays Le 379 million land lease
18 November 2019
06 Nov 2019 | Sierra Express Media The payment forms part of the annual payments under the (...)
An assessment of land deals undertaken by the National Oil Palm Project in Kalangala and Buvuma districts
14 November 2019
14 Jul 2019 | Tropenbos This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in (...)
La Unión Europea avala la venta de tierras a los extranjeros en Ucrania
14 November 2019
14 Nov 2019 | Sputnik News La Unión Europea (UE) expresó su apoyo a la iniciativa del Gobierno (...)
Levée du moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles en Ukraine – Catastrophe en vue
14 November 2019
13 Nov 2019 | Donbass Insider Parmi les mesures que Volodymyr Zelensky veut faire passer pour « (...)
Cambodian farmers accusing Bolloré of spoliation are asked to show proof
14 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | Le Monde Eighty Bunongs farmers from Mondol Kiri, a province in the east of (...)
Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries
13 November 2019
23 Oct 2019 | Mongabay Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive (...)
Farmland investors seek yields (almost) as high as an elephant’s eye
13 November 2019
31 Oct 2019 | INvestable Universe With very low interest rates having taken root across asset (...)
Ukraine, the land of quid pro quos
13 November 2019
13 Nov 2019 | Common Dreams If we are to take the matter of quid pro quos seriously, we should (...)
Ukrainian lawmakers vote to lift ban on sale of farmland by 2020
13 November 2019
13 Nov 2019 | Reuters Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to remove a ban on the sale of (...)
Sierra Leone environmentalist fights contempt charges in High Court
13 November 2019
13 Nov 2019 | Politico SL The High Court of Sierra Leone on Thursday adjourned a contempt of (...)
Les paysans cambodgiens accusant Bolloré de spoliation invités à produire des preuves
12 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | Le Monde Le tribunal français « invite » chaque paysan à communiquer avant le 20 (...)
L’huile de palme encouragée par le gouvernement indonésien malgré les violences
12 November 2019
12 Nov 2019 | RFI En Indonésie, la police vient de désigner le dirigeant d'une compagnie d'huile (...)
Palm oil businessman hired hit men to kill journalists: North Sumatra police
12 November 2019
09 Nov 2019 | Jakarta Post Indonesia North Sumatra police have arrested an oil palm plantation (...)
Ukraine: Vers un référendum sur l’ouverture du marché des terres agricoles aux étrangers
12 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | Reuters Le président ukrainien Volodimir Zelenski a déclaré lundi que le projet (...)
Bullish on cows: Fiera CEO bets on farmland for future growth
11 November 2019
29 Oct 2019 | Montreal Gazette One of Quebec’s largest private investors thinks he has found the (...)
Nuveen adds Moree farms to $3.5b global agriculture fund
11 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | AFR The acquisition of the Turnbull properties takes spending by TIAA's Nuveen (...)
The RSPO dodges responsibility for its members’ role in Indonesia’s fires crisis
11 November 2019
09 Nov 2019 | Greenpeace RSPO member companies and their associates account for three-quarters (...)
EBRD opposes rush of Ukraine’s government with land reform
11 November 2019
10 Nov 2019 | 112UA Matteo Patrone, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, (...)
In address to nation, Zelensky calls for referendum on land purchase by foreigners
11 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | UNIAN The President of Ukraine, in a video address to the nation, said that the (...)
World Bank, EBRD endorse Ukrainian land reform as president announces referendum
11 November 2019
11 Nov 2019 | Emerging Europe The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and (...)
Enough is too much: The growing case for investors to drop Golden Agri-Resources (commentary)
8 November 2019
31 Oct 2019 | Mongabay One year after palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its (...)
Massacres in Lower Omo, Ethiopia, call for Urgent Action by the Nobel laureate PM Abiy Ahmed
7 November 2019
30 Oct 2019 | Oakland Institute Ethiopian security forces have undertaken major operations to (...)
The Chain: Cerrado fires show TIAA and Harvard’s Endowment face mounting deforestation risks
7 November 2019
07 Nov 2019 | CRR With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation (...)
4 new Cambodian banana plantations approved for export to China
6 November 2019
06 Nov 2019 | Produce Report This brings the total number of Cambodian banana plantations (...)
Saudi Arabia seeking investment opportunities in foreign agricultural markets
6 November 2019
06 Nov 2019 | Future Directions Consistent interest from Saudi Arabia in direct investment in (...)
Argentinian cropping company buys Northern Territory cattle station Sturt Downs for $6.8 million
6 November 2019
06 Nov 2019 | ABC Cross Pacific Investments, which is backed by the Buratovich family of (...)
Crop firm wilts under cash crunch
6 November 2019
05 Nov 2019 | The Citizen Kilombero Plantations Limited in Tanzania joins a long list of failed (...)
Kazakhstan seeks to ban sales of land along its borders
5 November 2019
05 Nov 2019 | Bloomberg The proposed legislation would bar both foreigners and locals from (...)
L’hévéa, arme de déforestation massive au Cameroun
5 November 2019
01 Nov 2019 | France 24 Dans le sud du Cameroun, la société Sud Cameroun Hévéa, filiale du géant du (...)
The money farmers: How oligarchs and populists milk the EU for millions
4 November 2019
04 Nov 2019 | NYT The European Union spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a (...)
Perú: ONU pide a Goreu derogar norma pro deforestación y tráfico de tierras
4 November 2019
04 Nov 2019 | Servindi El Comité insta al GOREU a tomar medidas especiales para proteger los (...)
El acaparamiento de tierras agrícolas de Harvard y TIAA en Brasil se hace humo
4 November 2019
22 Oct 2019 | GRAIN Tenemos pruebas de que los incendios del Cerrado también están vinculados a (...)
Indonesia protests: Land bill at center of unrest
4 November 2019
03 Nov 2019 | Mongabay In recent weeks, Indonesia has seen its largest mass protests since the (...)
Why Chinese farmers have crossed border into Russia’s Far East
4 November 2019
01 Nov 2019 | BBC Chinese companies first appeared in Russia's Far East in the early 2000s, but (...)
Debate rages over intensive oil palm farming in Gabon
4 November 2019
01 Nov 2019 | Mongabay Nearly 88 percent of Gabon is covered in forests, but NGOs fear that the (...)
#Buycott, l’ABC. Comuni Virtuosi e Disability Pride aderiscono
4 November 2019
05 Nov 2019 | https://www.egalite.org/buycott-labc-comuni-virtuosi-e-disability-pride-aderiscono/
HAIG divests Australia’s largest macadamia portfolio to Belgian sugar producer Finasucre in $60M deal
31 October 2019
22 Oct 2019 | GAI Belgian sugar producer Finasucre has agreed to acquire the Winfield Road (...)
Singapore’s Olam taps Vietnam for farm product exports to Asia
31 October 2019
31 Oct 2019 | Nikkei Singapore-based Olam International has positioned Vietnam as an export (...)
AFP seizes $17.3m worth of property in Victoria, Tasmania in Chinese money laundering probe
31 October 2019
31 Oct 2019 | ABC A mansion in Melbourne's east, newly constructed units and more than 3,000 (...)
Land grabbing as an internationally wrongful act
31 October 2019
21 Oct 2019 | DA Displacement Solutions has just published a major 184-page legal report on the (...)
Ukraine’s plan to sell farmland raises fears of foreigners
31 October 2019
31 Oct 2019 | AP The government’s plans to open up the land market are stirring fears that (...)
Pourquoi ’Banque mondiale’ et ’agroécologie’ ne font pas bon ménage ?
31 October 2019
21 Oct 2019 | Investigaction Dans cet article accessible et instructif, Renaud Vivien du CADTM (...)
Elite Agro des Emirats prêt à investir dans l’agriculture en Sierra Leone
31 October 2019
30 Oct 2019 | CommodAfrica Le président de la Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, a rencontré le (...)
Kenya community pushes for UN inquiry into tea land theft
31 October 2019
30 Oct 2019 | AFP British and Kenyan lawyers allege that during the colonial period. the (...)
Brasile, cataclisma pesticidi. #Buycott soia OGM e palma
29 October 2019
29 Oct 2019 | https://www.egalite.org/brasile-cataclisma-pesticidi-buycott-soia-ogm-e-palma/ (...)
Harassment and arbitrary arrests of land defenders in the DRC
28 October 2019
28 Oct 2019 | RIAO-RDC RIAO-RDC and its international partners demand the immediate and (...)
Harcèlement et arrestations arbitraires de défenseurs des terres en RD Congo
28 October 2019
27 Oct 2019 | RIAO-RDC Le RIAO-RDC et ses partenaires internationaux exigent la libération (...)
Amazzonia, i tweet non spengono i fuochi. #Buycott!
27 October 2019
27 Oct 2019 | https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/consum-attori/amazzonia-i-tweet-non-spengono-i-fu
Lecture exposes pension fund’s links to Brazil land grabs
25 October 2019
25 Oct 2019 | John Hopkins Newsletter Altamiran Ribeiro, a Brazilian land rights activist, told (...)
Olio di palma. Indonesia e Malesia nascondono i dati e minacciano l’Europa. #Buycott!
24 October 2019
25 Oct 2019 | https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/sicurezza/olio-di-palma-indonesia-e-malesia-nasco
Agrofotovoltaica: Combinar paneles solares con agricultura
23 October 2019
23 Oct 2019 | Agrofotovoltaica: Combinar paneles solares con agricultura Por qué las granjas (...)
Divest Harvard holds protest about university’s Brazilian land ownership
22 October 2019
22 Oct 2019 | Harvard Crimson The student group Divest Harvard hosted a day of events calling (...)
Harvard and TIAA’s farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
22 October 2019
22 Oct 2019 | FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social Satellite maps show the connection between (...)
Landless: How the Dutch development bank marginalises farmers
22 October 2019
22 Oct 2019 | Trouw The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm (...)
Cross River Assembly reads riot act to multinationals
17 October 2019
17 Oct 2019 | The Guardian Cross River State House of Assembly has ordered Wilmar PZ and other (...)
Dying for land in Lao?
17 October 2019
16 Oct 2019 | Asean Post Villagers detained for defending their lands from land grabs were (...)
Argentina, Gran Chaco in fiamme per soia OGM e bovini da carne. #Buycott
17 October 2019
19 Oct 2019 | https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/consum-attori/argentina-gran-chaco-in-fiamme-per-
PE firm Navis Capital acquires Malaysian durian company Hernan
16 October 2019
08 Oct 2019 | Deal Street Asia Navis, which is backed by the US government’s development finance (...)
Ivory Coast law could see chocolate industry ‘wipe out’ protected forests
16 October 2019
16 Oct 2019 | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/ivory-coast-law-could-see-chocolat
Rapina delle terre e deforestazioni, olio di palma e soia OGM. #Buycott!
15 October 2019
16 Oct 2019 | https://www.greatitalianfoodtrade.it/idee/rapina-delle-terre-e-deforestazioni-olio-di-
Dutch development bank funded projects tied to murder, land-grabs: report.
15 October 2019
15 Oct 2019 | Dutch News The Dutch newspaper Trouw identified at least seven projects that FMO (...)
Chinese banana plantations bring work and pollution to Laos
15 October 2019
14 Oct 2019 | China Dialogue Banana plantations are raising local salaries but the chemicals (...)
Saudi Arabia and Russia sign up to closer ties with 20 new deals
15 October 2019
15 Oct 2019 | Arab News The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Saudi Agricultural and (...)
Australia: CPC and Terra Firma bosses buying back the farm
15 October 2019
15 Oct 2019 | Farm Weekly Terra Firma, founded by British multi-millionaire Guy Hands, has (...)
Nederlandse ontwikkelingsbank financiert landroof en andere misstanden
15 October 2019
15 Oct 2019 | Trouw De Nederlandse ontwikkelingsbank financiert projecten waar misstanden (...)
Indonesia finds one-fifth of palm oil plantations are illegal
14 October 2019
10 Oct 2019 | Bloomberg About 19% of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations are unlicensed. The (...)
RDC : Greenpeace Afrique alerte sur les violations de droits humains suite à un conflit forestier dans la province de Tshopo
14 October 2019
14 Oct 2019 | Actualité CD Greenpeace Afrique alerte sur des violations de droits humains dans (...)
Combien de temps la Belgique restera-t-elle complice des crimes des multinationales?
14 October 2019
13 Oct 2019 | Le Vif Un traité contraignant visant à garantir le respect des droit humains par (...)
Indigenous groups call on gov’t for speedy registration of collective land
14 October 2019
10 Oct 2019 | Phom Penh Post Representatives of 24 indigenous groups from 15 provinces of (...)
Cambodja-França: Camponeses em tribunal de Paris contra multinacional Bolloré: "Devolva as nossas terras"
11 October 2019
04 Oct 2019 | ASemana Dez cambodjanos estiveram na terça-feira, 1, num tribunal de Paris para (...)
Sénégal : Non aux exigences de réforme foncière de la Banque mondiale !
11 October 2019
10 Oct 2019 | Xalima La politique de Macky Sall n’a pas pu mettre fin à l’accaparement des terres (...)
Liberian and Indonesian communities report their grievances with Dutch bank ABN Amro
11 October 2019
07 Oct 2019 | Milieudefensie Community representatives, impacted by palm oil companies in (...)
Huile de palme : les ONGs contre le financement des agro-industriels
11 October 2019
10 Oct 2019 | VOA Afrique Déforestation et accaparement des terres au Cameroun par les (...)
Frank Braeken confronté aux difficultés économiques et sociales de Feronia en RD Congo
11 October 2019
07 Oct 2019 | Jeune Afrique Au sein du producteur d’huile de palme, c’est désormais le Belge (...)
#Buycott! Soia OGM, olio di palma e carni americane. Firma la petizione contro i pesticidi
10 October 2019
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9 October 2019
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Canadian fund launches bid for Webster
9 October 2019
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Baba Aidara fait des révélations explosives sur les 250 000 dollars encaissés par Aliou Sall au nom de la société Agitrans....
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Farmland sales to foreigners goes from trickle to a torrent
7 October 2019
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4 October 2019
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4 October 2019
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Commentary on the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts
3 October 2019
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3 October 2019
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Litiges fonciers : Echec de toutes les tentatives de régulation
3 October 2019
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Des paysans cambodgiens réclament réparation à Vincent Bolloré
3 October 2019
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2 October 2019
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Vermont allocates $125 million to two agriculture funds
2 October 2019
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2 October 2019
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Cambodians in Paris to hold Bolloré to account
2 October 2019
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Des Cambodgiens poursuivent le groupe Bolloré pour avoir détruit leur forêt sacrée
2 October 2019
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Bunong group attends French court hearing over land dispute
2 October 2019
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Les communautés à Lokutu donnent 48 heures à Feronia pour mettre fin à ses provocations
1 October 2019
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Le combat de paysans cambodgiens contre Bolloré
1 October 2019
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1 October 2019
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Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction
1 October 2019
23 Sep 2019 | Global Witness New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks (...)
Turkish investors sign $275 million Sierra Leone rice farming deal
30 September 2019
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Sénégal : Des acteurs engagent une réflexion pour mettre en place l’observatoire du foncier dans la vallée.
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Palm oil, pineapples threaten Southeast Asia’s indigenous lands
30 September 2019
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UK development bank launches inquiry after murder of Congolese activist
27 September 2019
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Como Harvard enlouqueceu com aposta de US$ 270 mi no Brasil
27 September 2019
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Violent arrests and torture expose the myth of ‘development’
26 September 2019
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RDC : Intimidation et attaques contre les défenseurs des droits fonciers dans les provinces de Tshopo et d’Équateur
26 September 2019
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UK government body accepts OECD complaint against sugar “sustainability” body
25 September 2019
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Intimidation and attacks against land rights defenders in Tshopo and Equateur provinces
25 September 2019
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25 September 2019
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Croatia to extend moratorium on sale of farm land to foreigners
25 September 2019
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L’«agrocolonialisme» doit cesser!
25 September 2019
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Indonesia: Indigenous peoples losing their forests
25 September 2019
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Harvard was ‘freaking out’: How a $270 million Brazil bet tanked
24 September 2019
24 Sep 2019 | Bloomberg Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about (...)
La Banque centrale du Nigeria investit $82 millions dans l’huile de palme
24 September 2019
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Accaparement de terres : La SIAT doit revoir sa copie en Côte d’Ivoire
24 September 2019
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24 September 2019
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Setting the record straight on false allegations in World Rainforest Movement’s petition about Olam’s palm plantations in Gabon
23 September 2019
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Ukraine proposes farmland reforms
23 September 2019
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23 September 2019
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Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa
23 September 2019
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Au Cameroun, les riveraines exigent que les agroindustries respectent les cahiers de charges
23 September 2019
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23 September 2019
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23 September 2019
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Palm oil giant Korindo silences critical report with cease-and-desist letter
23 September 2019
19 Sep 2019 | Mongabay Korindo, a major palm oil operator in Indonesia’s Papua region, has sent (...)
En Afrique, les communautés résistent à l’accaparement des terres pour la production d’huile de palme
20 September 2019
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Communities in Africa fight back against the land grab for palm oil
20 September 2019
20 Sep 2019 | GRAIN A new report on the state of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa (...)
Inversiones Cobra & CXI lawsuit (re illegal invasion of land & burning of palm oil, Guatemala)
19 September 2019
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Villagers displaced by Neumann Kaffee’s plantation face another land grab in Mubende, Uganda
18 September 2019
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Why Ethiopia’s showcase sugar projects face huge challenges
18 September 2019
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Feronia announces missed loan payment
18 September 2019
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Lutte contre l’accaparement des bords de lagune, les pêcheurs du village Bidjan-Santai briefés
18 September 2019
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Land conflict between villagers and PHC-Feronia in Lokutu, DR Congo: Violent arrest of many community leaders
17 September 2019
17 Sep 2019 | RIAO-RDC Police have arrested numerous villagers from communities involved in an (...)
Conflit foncier entre villageois et la société PHC-Feronia à Lokutu, en RD Congo : Arrestation violente de nombreux leaders communautaires
17 September 2019
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Agri Terra orange plantations: Better than expected
17 September 2019
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Alertan sobre amenaza a soberanía venta de tierras en Brasil
16 September 2019
14 Sep 2019 | Prensa Latina Un proyecto de ley que permite la venta de tierras a inversionistas (...)
Picaretas "travestidos" de parlamentares querem vender partes do Brasil
16 September 2019
13 Sep 2019 | Blog Valdir Fries As propostas de abertura desenfreada da venda de terras do (...)
Help stop the advance of oil palm plantations in Gabon!
16 September 2019
13 Sep 2019 | WRM WRM invite organizations, groups, networks and movements to sign this (...)
Aidez-nous à stopper la progression des monocultures de palmier à huile au Gabon !
16 September 2019
13 Sep 2019 | WRM WRM invite les organisations, groupes, réseaux et mouvements à signer cette (...)
Landgrabbing: Contested meanings of land
14 September 2019
06 Sep 2019 | TNI A critical examination of the European Union's involvement in land (...)
Le droit foncier en Afrique: un casse-tête pervers
13 September 2019
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« L’huile de palme est le sujet le plus controversé car le plus médiatisé, mais regardons le caoutchouc »
13 September 2019
13 Sep 2019 | Les Echos « Comme dans les plantations de palme, la production de caoutchouc (...)
Cameroun : la communauté de Nyete exprime ses inquiétudes au sujet du nouveau projet de plantation de palmiers
13 September 2019
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Cameroon: Nyete community express concerns over new palm project, say other industries haven’t developed their lands as promised
13 September 2019
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Retours sur les ateliers de dialogue multi-acteurs (Guinée, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Mali)
13 September 2019
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Big promises, few results: Chinese farms falter in Uganda
11 September 2019
11 Sep 2019 | CSM The view of Chinese agricultural investments in Africa from Luwero, Uganda, (...)
Brothers build multi-million mixed farm in Masindi
11 September 2019
11 Aug 2019 | Daily Monitor US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US (...)
UK’s DFID funded company involved in forced land eviction in Kiryandongo District
11 September 2019
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Kazakhstan: UAE-based company to invest in 1000-hectare orchards in Almaty region
11 September 2019
11 Sep 2019 | TCA Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest (...)
FoEA Solidarity visit and message to Joegbahn Clan Community in Liberia
11 September 2019
11 Sep 2019 | FoEA Friends of the Earth Africa member groups visit the Joegbahn clan community (...)
Au Congo, l’autre poumon vert de la planète peine aussi à respirer
11 September 2019
07 Sep 2019 | Le Soir Alors que l’Amazonie brûle, la forêt du bassin du Congo est consumée par (...)
Cameroon peasants criticize large companies
11 September 2019
28 Aug 2019 | Jiji Emmanuel Elong, a farmer from Cameroon, criticized land grabbing by foreign (...)
Respect and protect the Mekong people’s rights to land and resources: A call for support
11 September 2019
11 Sep 2019 | Mekong Solidarity Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the (...)
Uganda: Masindi court declines to halt a forceful and ciolent eviction of 2,300 families of their land
10 September 2019
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Conalcam culpa a menonitas y brasileros por "desmonte a costa de la vida"
10 September 2019
10 Sep 2019 | Opinión “Denunciamos que la extranjerización de la tierra en manos de menonitas y (...)
Las consecuencias de la deforestación en la Amazonia colombiana
10 September 2019
07 Sep 2019 | Canal RCN Más de 98 mil hectáreas ha caído en esta zona del país en manos de (...)
The colonial empire of Japan and the origins of the ProSavana agricultural project in Mozambique
10 September 2019
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日本のODAに現地から「NO!」
10 September 2019
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Ukraine president plans land reform, large privatisations
10 September 2019
10 Sep 2019 | Reuters Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he wants parliament to adopt (...)
Dutch ag pension to divest stake in ag investment fund Fagoed
10 September 2019
06 Sep 2019 | GAI BPL, the Dutch pension fund for the Netherland’s agricultural and green (...)
Law and political economy of commodity rushes: Reflections on “land grabbing” in the Global South
10 September 2019
05 Sep 2019 | Law and Political Economy Law plays a key role in shifting control over the (...)
Congo-Brazzaville – Henri Djombo : « Nos terres sont là, disponibles »
5 September 2019
05 Sep 2019 | Jeune Afrique Le ministre d’État chargé de l’Agriculture, de l’Élevage et de la Pêche (...)
Zambian agribusiness firm to invest US$200m in a palm oil project
5 September 2019
05 Sep 2019 | FBA Consolidated Farming Limited, subsidiary of Sable group, will be investing (...)
The man who’s burning the Amazon
5 September 2019
29 Aug 2019 | Bad News Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two (...)
China brings 80 investors to Tanzania
3 September 2019
02 Sep 2019 | All Africa An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will (...)
As the Amazon burns, students call on Harvard to divest from farmland holdings
29 August 2019
29 Aug 2019 | The Crimson As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard (...)
À Montréal, écologistes et défenseurs des droits autochtones disent à Bolsonaro de dégager
29 August 2019
29 Aug 2019 | Le Devoir Plusieurs investisseurs internationaux présents au Brésil contribuent à (...)
Biocarburant : 448 milliards de FCFA pour une usine de bioéthanol
28 August 2019
28 Aug 2019 | Gabon Review Une délégation d’hommes d’affaires chinois s’est entretenue avec le (...)
World Bank allocates Ukraine $200 mln for agricultural development project
28 August 2019
28 Aug 2019 | UKInform The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement (...)
Pátria Investimentos invests in Brazilian agriculture (em português)
28 August 2019
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Is nationalisation and state custodianship of land a solution? The case of Mozambique
26 August 2019
26 Aug 2019 | Amandla! The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, (...)
As the Amazon burns, we call on Harvard to cease its investment in farmland
26 August 2019
26 Aug 2019 | Medium Fires in the Amazon are the direct result of human activity. Harvard’s (...)
Scandale foncier à Mbane : Tahirou Sarr encore à la manoeuvre
26 August 2019
23 Aug 2019 | Plusieurs villages traditionnels de la commune de Mbane, au Sénégal sont à risque (...)
La certification RSPO est un écoblanchiment en Afrique
23 August 2019
22 Aug 2019 | FOE Africa Les groupes Amis de la Terre Afrique ont décrit la convergence des (...)
CDC appoints independent team to investigate the death of Joël Imbangola Lunea
23 August 2019
22 Aug 2019 | CDC CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed an independent (...)
Coopération sino-camerounaise : les explications de la Chine sur ses acquisitions au Cameroun
22 August 2019
16 Aug 2019 | ACP Le gouvernement chinois corrige : les acquisitions de terres agricoles au (...)
Combler le fossé de l’information : comment l’accès aux contrats fonciers peut servir les droits des communautés
21 August 2019
21 Aug 2019 | CCSI OpenLandContracts.org publie un note d’information pour les organisations de (...)
India’s largest producer of cut roses initiates insolvency proceedings
20 August 2019
14 Aug 2019 | The Hindu Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process has been initiated against (...)
Mega-plantations in Southeast Asia: Landscapes of displacement
20 August 2019
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China warned it should not pin its hopes on Russian soybeans plugging supply gap caused by US trade war
19 August 2019
19 Aug 2019 | SCMP Russian soybean exports to China are likely to remain low for the next few (...)
Pourquoi aucune mesure n’est-elle prise pour arrêter l’assassin du défenseur foncier Joël Imbangola Lunea?
14 August 2019
14 Aug 2019 | RIAO-RDC et al Vingt-quatre jours se sont écoulés depuis que le défenseur des droits (...)
Why is no action being taken to arrest the killer of DR Congo land defender Joël Imbangola Lunea?
14 August 2019
14 Aug 2019 | RIAO-RDC et al Twenty-four days have passed since land defender Joël Imbangola (...)
Lao protest villagers held since 2017 have been sentenced
14 August 2019
06 Aug 2019 | Radio Free Asia Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the (...)
The great land robbery
14 August 2019
12 Aug 2019 | The Atlantic The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped (...)
Impact investorAgDevCo expands into Cote d’Ivoire with €8.7M palm oil and cashew investment
14 August 2019
12 Aug 2019 | Global AgInvesting UK-based investor AgDevCo has expanded its geographic reach (...)
Mort d’un activiste congolais : la Belgique interpellée
13 August 2019
08 Aug 2019 | Le Vif Joël Imbangola, membre de l'organisation congolaise de défense de (...)
Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers
13 August 2019
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Au Cameroun, Greenpeace Africa plaide pour la sécurisation des terres des peuples autochtones
12 August 2019
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Le Brésil, géant agricole pas vraiment vert
12 August 2019
11 Aug 2019 | AFP L’augmentation croissante des exportations agricoles du Brésil suscite des (...)
Le britannique AgDevCo annoncé dans un investissement dans le secteur agroalimentaire en Tanzanie
12 August 2019
16 Jul 2019 | Agence Ecofin La firme britannique d’investissement AgDevCo annonce la réalisation (...)
Failed commercial farms
10 August 2019
10 Aug 2019 | The Reporter Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. (...)
Karuturi, Saudi Star et al labeled poor performers, less responsible investors
10 August 2019
10 Aug 2019 | The Reporter Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, (...)
Bolsonaro ignores fears for Amazon amid record land-grab
9 August 2019
09 Aug 2019 | The Australian A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or (...)
Former MP, investors evict thousands in Kiryandongo
9 August 2019
07 Aug 2019 | The Observer Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by (...)
China investing in Brazil ag
9 August 2019
07 Aug 2019 | DTN COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres (...)
Reflections on how state–civil society collaborations play out in the context of land grabbing in Argentina
9 August 2019
30 Jul 2019 | MDPI Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social (...)
Foncier agricole: Les investisseurs étrangers piégés par la loi
7 August 2019
06 Aug 2019 | L'Economiste Au Maroc, il est interdit de vendre du foncier en milieu rural aux (...)
Pour la transparence dans l’achat des terres agricoles
7 August 2019
06 Aug 2019 | Wolters Kluwer France Le ministre de l’Agriculture s’engage à lutter contre la (...)
Super fund turns to food sustainability
6 August 2019
05 Aug 2019 | Financial Standard The sustainability of food supply chains has become (...)
UAE intends to invest in Central Kalimantan’s food crops
6 August 2019
05 Aug 2019 | Antara The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sent a delegation to Central Kalimantan (...)
Preparation of an international guidance document on agricultural land investment contracts
6 August 2019
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Paraguay: Investigación revela que sojeros y ganaderos usurpan tierras de Itaipú en complicidad con las autoridades
5 August 2019
05 Aug 2019 | BASE-IS Una investigación periodistica revela que sojeros y ganaderos, en su (...)
Cameroun : les vrais chiffres de la présence chinoise sur des terres agricoles
5 August 2019
03 Aug 2019 | Agence Ecofin Des chiffres de la présence chinoise sur des terres agricoles en (...)
Joseph Rahall : rendre leur terre aux Sierra Léonais
5 August 2019
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Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world
2 August 2019
02 Aug 2019 | Civil Eats Agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was (...)
Macquarie snaps up 49% of Australia’s massive Cubbie Station from China’s Ruyi
2 August 2019
02 Aug 2019 | Reuters Australia’s Macquarie Group has purchased a 49% stake in cotton farm (...)
Uganda: New report cites land grabbing in oil palm project
2 August 2019
02 Aug 2019 | Observer A new report by Makerere University's Human Rights and Peace Center (...)
El acuerdo comercial RCEP intensificará el acaparamiento de tierras en Asia
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Pueblos mayas pedirán a AMLO frenar a mafias que ’roban’ sus tierras
31 July 2019
29 Jul 2019 | LaVerdad Un llamado de ayuda lanzaron pequeños productores y ejidatarios mayas al (...)
Lutte contre l’accaparement des terres: Global Witness compte les morts
31 July 2019
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Environmentalist murdered near disputed DRC palm oil project
30 July 2019
29 Jul 2019 | Earthsight Killing of Joël Imbangola Lunea allegedly linked to ongoing unrest (...)
L’accord commercial du RCEP va intensifier l’accaparement de terres en Asie
30 July 2019
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30 July 2019
30 Jul 2019 | Global Witness Global Witness report finds that more than three people were (...)
Farmers groan as Chinese firm grabs land in Northern Nigeria
29 July 2019
29 Jul 2019 | Premium Times Villagers in Northern Nigeria struggle against a land grab by the (...)
L’initiative pour des multinationales responsables
29 July 2019
29 Jul 2019 | ATE Qu'il s'agisse de l'accaparement des terres dans la culture du caoutchouc au (...)
La résistance paysanne à l’accaparement des terres et le processus de la réforme foncière au Sénégal
29 July 2019
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Gabon : le gouvernement annonce la création d’un guichet unique pour faciliter l’investissement étranger
29 July 2019
29 Jul 2019 | Agence Ecofin Suite à une rencontre avec Olam, qui contrôle 144 000 hectares de (...)
How the women of Indonesia rose up against land grabbing
26 July 2019
17 Jul 2019 | Forest People Programme Indonesia indigenous women’s movement has undoubtedly made (...)
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23 Jul 2019 | Tempo Sejumlah koalisi masyarakat sipil menolak pembahasan dan pengesahan (...)
Uzbekistan: Chinese company to invest in meat and dairy cluster in Jizzakh region
25 July 2019
25 Jul 2019 | kun.uz The Chinese company DELMOR and international financial institutions are (...)
Sénégal : Les populations de Syer s’insurgent contre l’octroi de plus de 300 ha de leurs terres à des Indiens
25 July 2019
25 Jul 2019 | Dakar Actu SENEGINDIA a obtenu 300 ha destinés à l'agriculture avec l’aval des (...)
Un paysan bio se bat contre les exploitations « mangeuses de terres » qui ont racheté sa ferme
25 July 2019
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Soutenez les expulsé·e·s contre Neumann Kaffee Gruppe et le Gouvernement ougandais
23 July 2019
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Land defender violently killed by a security guard of a Canadian palm oil company in the DR Congo
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23 July 2019
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Foreign investment in farmland ’overstated’: Rabobank
22 July 2019
22 Jul 2019 | AFR Foreign ownership of Australian farmland is "overstated" when measured on a (...)
Craigmore to convert Northland dairy land to kiwifruit production
22 July 2019
22 Jul 2019 | NZ Herald Craigmore Sustainables, a New Zealand-owned company that draws its (...)
In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land
19 July 2019
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Livestock Wealth becomes multimillion-rand enterprise
19 July 2019
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19 July 2019
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Bolivia: INRA dejó de verificar la FES, lo que alentó la apropiación de tierras fiscales
18 July 2019
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18 July 2019
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Cambodian villagers to appeal Thai court’s rejection of suit against sugar giant
17 July 2019
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China: ramping up investment in African agriculture
16 July 2019
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28 percent of Indonesia’s palm oil landbank is stranded
16 July 2019
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To AIIB: Stop bankrolling landgrabs
16 July 2019
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Projet Malibya : Paysans et députés veulent conquérir les aménagements libyens
16 July 2019
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Bulgaria’s Advance Terrafund REIT buys 69.5 ha of farmland in June
15 July 2019
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15 July 2019
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15 July 2019
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RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
15 July 2019
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11 July 2019
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10 July 2019
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Résiliation d’actes de concession agricole et récupération de plus de 67.000 ha de terres à Brizina
10 July 2019
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Cameroon’s palm oil of discontent
10 July 2019
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10 July 2019
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Land projects under MCC - Will ensure tenure security and tradability
9 July 2019
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Sierra Leone: Goldtree merges with Natural Habitats Europe Africa
9 July 2019
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Central Africa’s rainforests and people suffering from the expansion of palm oil and rubber plantations
8 July 2019
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TIAA’s “sustainability reports” can’t paper over the impacts of land grabbing
8 July 2019
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L’Ukraine, un monstre agricole aux portes de l’UE
8 July 2019
08 Jul 2019 | RFI Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de (...)
Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs
8 July 2019
08 Jul 2019 | Liberian Observer The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as (...)
Friends of the Earth groups and supporters file OECD complaint against ING for financing palm oil abuses
8 July 2019
05 Jul 2019 | Milieudefense NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING (...)
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8 July 2019
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8 July 2019
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5 July 2019
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Socfin Group to invest US$20m in oil palm processing factory in Ghana
5 July 2019
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Karuturi Global‘s Ethiopia return stokes fears of deforestation and evictions
4 July 2019
04 Jul 2019 | IDM A 15,000-hectare concession awarded to Karuturi Global in Ethiopia’s Gambela (...)
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4 July 2019
04 Jul 2019 | Liberian Observer The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the (...)
Les propositions de la société civile pour la réforme foncière au Cameroun
4 July 2019
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Qatar re-evaluates its food security strategy
3 July 2019
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Feronia Inc. announces US$19.3 million private placement and related debt settlement
2 July 2019
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2 July 2019
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2 July 2019
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2 July 2019
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Chinese rice farm helps boost food security, employment in central Uganda
28 June 2019
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28 June 2019
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Customary land map, a first for Indonesia, launches to mixed reception
28 June 2019
26 Jun 2019 | Mongabay Indonesia has published its first ever map of customary forests, in a (...)
Terres agricoles chinoises dans l’Indre : "Le foncier agricole est victime de la spéculation"
27 June 2019
26 Jun 2019 | France Bleu Tout ça pour ça ! Le conglomérat chniois qui avait acheté 1700 hectares (...)
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27 June 2019
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Le groupe chinois qui avait acheté près de 3000 hectares en France a fait faillite
26 June 2019
25 Jun 2019 | AFP Le conglomérat chinois Reward, avec à sa tête le milliardaire Hu Keqin, avait (...)
Bruxelles, des organisations de développement dénoncent l’entreprise Feronia de la RD Congo
21 June 2019
20 Jun 2019 | Cheik Fita News Un point d'information a été organisé sur la problématique de (...)
El nuevo acuerdo de tierra que Karuturi Global pretende con Etiopía debe desecharse
20 June 2019
20 Jun 2019 | ASO et al Una coalición de grupos hace un llamado urgente ante las autoridades de (...)
Le nouvel accord foncier de Karuturi Global en Ethiopie doit être abandonné
19 June 2019
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19 June 2019
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18 June 2019
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Australia: CPC property selldown continues, with Ucharonidge divestment
18 June 2019
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18 June 2019
18 Jun 2019 | e360 Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil (...)
President Bio hails Sunbird Bio-energy
18 June 2019
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Sénégal : La fraude et les terres menacent l’emploi
17 June 2019
17 Jun 2019 | Le Quotidien Les agro-industriels de la Vallée souhaiteraient avoir la possibilité (...)
State projects leave tens of thousands of lives in the balance in Ethiopia – study
14 June 2019
14 Jun 2019 | Guardian Giant dam and irrigated sugar plantations mean people in lower Omo (...)
Estrangeirização de terras e segurança alimentar e nutricional: Brasil e China em perspectiva
14 June 2019
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14 June 2019
11 Jun 2019 | AFP "Vivíamos muy tranquilos, pero los guardias de la granja vecina empezaron a (...)
Karuturi Global’s new land deal in Ethiopia must be scrapped
13 June 2019
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Formation sur les litiges fonciers au Cameroun
13 June 2019
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Reply by the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom to the Okomu Oil Palm Company, a subsidiary of SOCFIN.
12 June 2019
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Investment companies on notice for selling water to struggling farmers in Australia
12 June 2019
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Australia: Super fund reinforces savings with timber, agriculture
12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019 | Financial Standard LGIAsuper will diversify its investment strategy and invest in (...)
Touted as ’development,’ land grabs hurt local communities, and women most of all
12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019 | Phys.org Large-scale land transactions in which nations sell huge, publicly owned (...)
Cambodian farmers take Thai sugar giant to court
12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019 | Al Jazeera Two Cambodian sugar farmers are bringing a case against Thai firm Mitr (...)
Au Brésil, les monocultures grignotent la savane et menacent les communautés
12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019 | AFP 121 familles dénoncent l'accaparement de leur territoire par une grande (...)
Cambodian farmers battle in landmark lawsuit against Thai sugar firm
12 June 2019
12 Jun 2019 | TRF The lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, filed on behalf (...)
The nature of social justice advocacy and local resistance to land concessions in Liberia
11 June 2019
11 Jun 2019 | Front Page Africa The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land (...)
Investments in farmland in numbers
10 June 2019
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Efforts to restrict foreign ownership of US farmland grow
10 June 2019
10 Jun 2019 | AP As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to (...)
Ces Belges qui cultivent la pomme de terre illégalement dans l’Oise
10 June 2019
10 Jun 2019 | Le Parisien « C’est de l’agriculture délocalisée, car après, toute la transformation (...)
Human rights defenders face reprisals. Here’s what OECD and National Contact Points can do to protect them.
8 June 2019
08 Jun 2019 | BHRRC New research by OECD Watch and BHRRC shows that 64% of reprisals from (...)
Face aux revendications de meilleures conditions de travail, l’agro-industriel Olam Gabon se défend
7 June 2019
07 Jun 2019 | Nouveau Gabon Olam Gabon revendique près de 64 000 hectares de palmiers à huile et (...)
‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell
7 June 2019
07 Jun 2019 | Mongabay The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who (...)
Environnement: Total, Bolloré... la pression sur les multinationales s’accentue!
7 June 2019
06 Jun 2019 | RFI Le groupe Total et le groupe Bolloré sont dans le collimateur des (...)
Etude sur l’impact de la loi française sur le devoir de vigilance et un éventuel traité international, sur l’agriculture des pays du Sud
7 June 2019
06 Jun 2019 | BRRC Coordination SUD questionne à travers cette note les possibles impacts de la (...)
’We don’t need them’: Russian village rejects Chinese investment
6 June 2019
05 Jun 2019 | RFE Villagers in Krasnaya Gorka in Russia's Chuvashia are protesting the (...)
Feronia’s land lease agreements in the DR Congo
6 June 2019
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Ukraine: Assaults against community activists
5 June 2019
05 Jun 2019 | CHRD Local opponents to the EBRD and IFC financed expansion plans of Ukrainian (...)
Cameroon: Elvis Brown Luma Mukuna receives death threats, while his brother is abducted and tortured
5 June 2019
04 Jun 2019 | Frontline Defenders The recent incidents form part of a pattern of threats and (...)
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5 June 2019
04 Jun 2019 | Politis Face à l'enfer de l'accaparement des terres, leur dégradation et leur (...)
Controversial Rai family now targets Mumias sugar nucleus estate
4 June 2019
12 May 2019 | Kahawatungu Plans are underway to ensure the family gets a portion of Yala Swamp (...)
La souveraineté déborde sur la propriété foncière – IWACU
4 June 2019
03 Jun 2019 | Afrique Actu Daily Au Burundi, les étrangers peuvent avoir des cessions et des (...)
Land grabbing and its implications for Sudanese – Views from a scholar
3 June 2019
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Harvard selling large scale cropping farms
3 June 2019
18 May 2019 | Farm Weekly Harvard University has listed its large scale cropping aggregation at (...)
Hungary can’t curb farm sales to EU foreigners, top court says
3 June 2019
21 May 2019 | Bloomberg Hungarian restrictions on farmland investors from other European Union (...)
Briefing for grass-roots organizations – Bridging the information gap: How access to land contracts can serve community rights
3 June 2019
31 May 2019 | CCSI This briefing note explains how local organizations can use land contracts (...)
SALIC leads round for UK crop analytics company Hummingbird Technologies
3 June 2019
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Acquisition d’une usine de surgelés en Russie
3 June 2019
03 Jun 2019 | Bonduelle Bonduelle, qui exploite déjà 10 000 ha de terres agricoles en Russie, (...)
Acquisition of a frozen food factory in Russia
3 June 2019
03 Jun 2019 | Bonduelle Bonduelle, a French firm which operates 10,000 hectares of farmland to (...)
Argentina: Más de 900.000 hectáreas rurales en Catamarca son propiedad de extranjeros
3 June 2019
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Bolloré demandado por diez ONG y sindicatos
3 June 2019
27 May 2019 | Su objetivo: obtener la aplicación de medidas para mejorar las condiciones de (...)
Argentina: Piden informes a la Provincia por la venta de tierras en Tinogasta
3 June 2019
28 May 2019 | El Ancasti Pretenden conocer la propiedad y que se cumpla con la ley que limita (...)
Bolloré faces lawsuit over Cameroon palm oil workers
31 May 2019
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Huile de palme au Cameroun : le groupe Bolloré sur le banc des accusés
31 May 2019
29 May 2019 | RT Marie-Laure Guislain commente la poursuite en justice du groupe Bolloré par dix (...)
Lao authorities allow Chinese firm to plant on land promised to dam collapse survivors
31 May 2019
29 May 2019 | Radio Free Asia A Chinese-backed firm is growing bananas on 2,000 hectare of land (...)
Bolloré: manifestation pour dénoncer les agissements du groupe dans les exploitations d’huile de palme
30 May 2019
29 May 2019 | AFP Une dizaine de manifestants se sont rassemblés mercredi matin devant la tour (...)
SOCFIN et Bolloré sous pression : action en justice, assemblée générale perturbée et mobilisations publiques en Europe
30 May 2019
29 May 2019 | FIAN Belgium La semaine aura été chargée pour Hubert Fabri, Vincent Bolloré et les (...)
Liberia: Locals accuse Salala Rubber Company, Liberia Agricultural Company of land grabbing
30 May 2019
29 May 2019 | Front Page Africa Online Two major rubber plantation companies are under intense (...)
Des femmes battues accueillent les actionnaires de Bolloré
29 May 2019
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What justice for local communities affected by SOCFIN plantations?
28 May 2019
28 May 2019 | GRAIN An action of solidarity with the communities affected by SOCFIN's (...)
Quelle justice pour les riverains des plantations SOCFIN ?
28 May 2019
28 May 2019 | GRAIN Une action de solidarité avec les communautés affectées par les plantations de (...)
Vinamilk, Lao-Jagro partner in organic dairy farm and resort
28 May 2019
28 May 2019 | Vientiane Times Vinamilk, Vietnam’s largest dairy company, has teamed up with Lao (...)
22 Liberian Indigenous villages file complaint against SOCFIN subsidiary at IFC
27 May 2019
27 May 2019 | Green Advocates In a complaint filed today, 22 Liberian indigenous villagers say (...)
Bolloré group sued by NGOs in an unprecedented legal action
27 May 2019
27 May 2019 | GRAIN et al. Palm oil in Cameroon: French courts must order the group to respect (...)
Le groupe Bolloré attrait en justice par des ONG : une action judiciaire inédite
27 May 2019
27 May 2019 | GRAIN et al. Huile de palme au Cameroun : les juridictions françaises doivent (...)
Riz : le Sénégal veille au grain
27 May 2019
20 May 2019 | Bakel Info Pour permettre aux paysans de la vallée de se développer, face aux (...)
Cameroun: Ferme opposition des femmes Bagyeli face a Biopalm
27 May 2019
14 May 2019 | FPP Sous la menace de l’accaparement de la société agro-industrielle Biopalm, des (...)
Five from China charged over illegal banana plantation in Myanmar protected forest
21 May 2019
20 May 2019 | Radio Free Asia China-backed banana tissue-culture plantations, banned in Laos (...)
Lao villager dies after 8 years in jail over land grab protest
21 May 2019
20 May 2019 | Radio Free Asia A Lao villager held in jail since 2011 as a leader of a land (...)
Sierra Leona: Esperanzas destruidas y empeoramiento de la situación de Malen
16 May 2019
15 May 2019 | UMOYA SOCFIN Société de Agriculture Sierra Leona Ltd (SAC) llegó en 2011 a la (...)
Brasil: Mapa das Terras dos Parlamentares mostra que eles acumulam fazendas na Amazônia e no Matopiba
16 May 2019
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Au Sénégal, le coup de grâce à l’accaparement des terres par AFRI Partners
16 May 2019
06 May 2019 | SOS Faim Tous les ingrédients étaient réunis pour mener à cette victoire contre (...)
Accord de libre-échange ALECA : 9 risques identifiés par la société civile tunisienne
16 May 2019
15 May 2019 | CCFD-Terre Solidaire Sous l’accord de libre-échange complet et approfondi (ALECA) (...)
Au Liberia, Equatorial Palm Oil double ses pertes au 1er semestre
16 May 2019
14 May 2019 | Commodafrica EPO indique qu’il est peu probable que de nouveaux aménagements (...)
How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf
16 May 2019
16 May 2019 | Mada Masr Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is (...)
Pourquoi l’investissement étranger agricole au Sénégal connait des ratés ?
15 May 2019
15 May 2019 | Commodafrica L'investissement étranger dans le foncier au Sénégal n'a pas toujorus (...)
Belgique - Bilan de la législature : le gouvernement Michel a mis le cap sur l’agriculture industrielle
15 May 2019
15 May 2019 | CNCD-11.11.11 En augmentant le soutien financier public belge à des entreprises (...)
Internal audit reveals Shs 5.3 billion fraud in Bidco
15 May 2019
01 Apr 2019 | Observer An internal audit conducted by Wilmar International on its subsidiary (...)
Dufil consolidates on land acquisition, commences compensation to Edo farmers
15 May 2019
15 Apr 2019 | Business Day Following its acquisition of 17,954 ha from the Edo State government (...)
Spain’s El Ciruelo acquires leading Brazilian table grape producer
14 May 2019
14 May 2019 | Fresh Fruit Portal Spain-based El Ciruelo has reached an agreement with Grupo JD (...)
Radical proposals to save Kenya’s ailing agriculture
14 May 2019
14 May 2019 | Nation One of the key proposals is the establishment of 50 new large-scale farms (...)
Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources
14 May 2019
14 May 2019 | Harvard Crimson Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous (...)
UN Resolution on the Decade of Family Farming in Japanese (国連決議文<日本語訳>:家族農業の10年)
14 May 2019
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Masiva privatización de las tierras públicas y los territorios colectivos en Brasil
10 May 2019
09 May 2019 | GRAIN La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley (...)
Todo al mejor postor: el nuevo plan del Banco Mundial para privatizar tierras en el sur global
10 May 2019
03 May 2019 | Biodiversidad en América Latina y el Caribe Al introducir un indicador de tierra (...)
Jane Goodall Institute’s REDD project in Tanzania
9 May 2019
06 Apr 2019 | REDD Monitor A totalitarian approach to conservation that led to increased (...)
What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia and what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis
9 May 2019
08 May 2019 | The Gecko Project The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined (...)
Sierra Leone: Parliament legalize Sierra Tropical operations
8 May 2019
08 May 2019 | Awoko Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has (...)
Gulf capital and Egypt’s corporate food system: a region in the third food regime
8 May 2019
05 May 2019 | Review of African Political Economy Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign (...)
How a Chinese venture in Venezuela made millions while locals grew hungry
8 May 2019
08 May 2019 | Reuters Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co (...)
Green activists are fighting the great fight—but are being dragged down by petty lawsuits
8 May 2019
07 May 2019 | Newsweek In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary (...)
21,500 hectares of land in Kawambwa offered to investors
6 May 2019
06 May 2019 | Lusaka Times Zambia's Kawambwa Town Council has allocated 21,500 hectares of (...)
China touts agriculture cooperation with Belt-Road countries
3 May 2019
30 Apr 2019 | Dim Sums China's investment in foreign agricultural projects is booming, (...)
Land summit or land grab?
3 May 2019
02 May 2019 | ActNow PNG Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute denounce the National Land (...)
Liberia : le développement de l’huile de palme ne profite pas aux populations locales
2 May 2019
02 May 2019 | Agence Ecofin Au Liberia, l’essor des plantations de palmier à huile n’a pas permis (...)
Des milliers d’indigènes revendiquent leurs droits à Brasilia
2 May 2019
25 Apr 2019 | AFP Plusieurs milliers de représentants de tribus autochtones du Brésil étaient (...)
Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of ’Green Nobel’
30 April 2019
30 Apr 2019 | Reuters Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and (...)
Lawyer forced to flee Liberia hopes to return after Goldman prize win
29 April 2019
29 Apr 2019 | Guardian Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a (...)
Les producteurs de pomme de terre de la zone des Niayes dénoncent la concurrence déloyale de Senegindia SA
29 April 2019
26 Apr 2019 | Teranga News « L’Etat du Sénégal, en plus d’avoir donné des terres aux indiens, (...)
Farming gamble fails
26 April 2019
22 Mar 2019 | Africa Confidential Ambitions for venture capital in African agriculture – once (...)
Not in my backyard: Indonesian official fights corrupt palm concession
26 April 2019
24 Apr 2019 | Mongabay A district chief in Indonesia is seeking to overturn ministry decision (...)
Stopping colleges’ land grabs: Farmers and faculties unite
25 April 2019
24 Apr 2019 | Grassroots International Grassroots International is supporting partners and (...)
Accaparement made in Belgium. Le financement de Feronia par la Coopération belge
25 April 2019
24 Apr 2019 | CNCD-11.11.11 Trois années après le financement par l’agence belge de développement (...)
La Côte d’Ivoire abritera une conférence sur le foncier en Afrique
25 April 2019
24 Apr 2019 | Magazine 24 ”Gagner la lutte contre la corruption dans le secteur foncier“ est le (...)
RDCongo: un rapport d’ONG belges met en cause la coopération belge
25 April 2019
24 Apr 2019 | La Libre La plateforme d’ONG de développement belges CNCD-11.11.11, après une (...)
Sénégal : Epilogue juridique du projet rizicole initié par Afri Partners (Groupe Sefrioui)
24 April 2019
23 Apr 2019 | Yabiladi Une source proche du dossier a confirmé à Yabiladi que «la décision de la (...)
Tacuara’i indigenous people facing landlessness in Paraguay
23 April 2019
23 Apr 2019 | OpenDemocracy The acquisition—both legally and illegally—of enormous amounts of (...)
What to watch: Karuturi - Will new land deal prove fertile?
23 April 2019
23 Apr 2019 | The Hindu Shares of Karuturi Global may remain in action, as its subsidiary (...)
Historic legal win against corporate bullying in Paris
23 April 2019
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Sierra Leone bioenergy project poses new challenges to communities
23 April 2019
28 Mar 2019 | Swedwatch The Addax Bioenergy project continues to pose challenges to communities (...)
Annulation de l’accord entre le Sénégal et Addoha sur 10 000 ha au Fouta
23 April 2019
19 Apr 2019 | Commodafrica 2 543 parties civiles se sont regroupées autour d’un seul avocat pour (...)
Who owns the country? The secretive companies hoarding England’s land
19 April 2019
19 Apr 2019 | Guardian Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased (...)
Ethiopia: Gambellan solutions for Gambellan problems
18 April 2019
18 Apr 2019 | Ethiopia Insight While Ethiopian and foreign companies such as Karuturi Global (...)
Saudi-based SAK plans $100 mln Turkey investments despite tense ties
18 April 2019
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Georgia’s ban on foreign landowners leaves farmers in limbo
18 April 2019
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18 April 2019
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The Declaration on peasants’ rights should become a political tool for agrarian reform and social justice
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17 Apr 2019 | LVC Member organisations of La Via Campesina in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia (...)
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18 April 2019
17 Apr 2019 | AFP Les militants congolais ont interpellé la Banque mondiale et la Banque (...)
Affaire des terres du Fouta : La Cour suprême annule l’octroi de 10.000 hectares à Addoha
18 April 2019
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Zambian gov’t says partnering with China to boost agricultural production
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World Bank dispossessing rural poor
16 April 2019
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Successive land attacks stoke fear in Brazil’s Amazon
16 April 2019
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15 April 2019
15 Apr 2019 | Serbian Monitor Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the (...)
L’Ong Muyissi environnement sillonne les villages de la Ngounié impactés par Olam
15 April 2019
13 Apr 2019 | Gabon Initiatives Dans le cadre d'une campagne d’information sur les violences (...)
Procès en diffamation : Vincent Bolloré saisit la Cour de cassation contre "Complément d’enquête" et France 2
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15 April 2019
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12 April 2019
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Top Abraaj executives arrested on US fraud charges
12 April 2019
11 Apr 2019 | Reuters Founder and CEO of the firm that was active in the rush to buy global (...)
UK: CSOs call for mandatory human rights due diligence law to make multinationals accountable for abuses
12 April 2019
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Indigenous groups warn of ’apocalypse’ with Brazil’s Bolsonaro
11 April 2019
10 Apr 2019 | France24 Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President (...)
Filippine: a Palawan indigeni minacciati dalle palme da olio
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09 Apr 2019 | Osservatorio Diritti Nella provincia di Palawan, nelle Filippine, almeno 9.000 (...)
Socfin in Sierra Leone: Anger and broken hopes in Sahn Malen
10 April 2019
09 Apr 2019 | Standard Times In 2011, the plantation management company, Socfin opened a new (...)
Bolloré à nouveau débouté de son action contre France Télévisions
9 April 2019
09 Apr 2019 | AFP Mais l'avocat des parties civiles a indiqué que ses clients allaient se (...)
The highest bidder takes it all: The World Bank’s new scheme to privatise land in the global south
9 April 2019
04 Apr 2019 | Brettonwoods Project World Bank is launching an unprecedented attack on the (...)
Saudi government’s agriculture investor buys Australian farmland
9 April 2019
04 Apr 2019 | Bloomberg Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC) bought (...)
Cambodian activist urges authorities to free son, villagers detained amid land dispute
9 April 2019
04 Apr 2019 | Radio Free Asia Activist from northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province urged (...)
Kampong Speu sugar company villagers protest at Land Management Ministry
8 April 2019
05 Apr 2019 | Phnom Penh Post Nearly 700 people from different communities in Kampong Speu (...)
Bukanga Lonzo, Africom Commodities reclame 20 millions des USD à la RDC
8 April 2019
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RSPO CEO talks sustainable palm oil’s big challenges: Smallholders and Africa
8 April 2019
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Military open fire on communities protesting oil palm development in DRC
8 April 2019
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Livret: 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s’emparer des terres communautaires
4 April 2019
04 Apr 2019 | GRAIN Le livret « Promettre, diviser, intimider, contraindre : 12 tactiques (...)
Booklet: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land
4 April 2019
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ASEAN guidelines for responsible investment in food, agriculture and forestry
4 April 2019
30 Mar 2019 | IISD ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture (...)
DRC must give up plans to establish 22 agro-industrial parks
4 April 2019
04 Apr 2019 | Oakland Institute The collapse of the Bukanga Lonzo agro-industrial park pilot (...)
Namibia: How corruption affects women’s land rights
3 April 2019
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3 April 2019
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Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law
3 April 2019
03 Apr 2019 | Al Jazeera The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, (...)
Sous-location de terres agricoles: ces Belges qui exploitent les terres picardes
3 April 2019
02 Apr 2019 | Couerrier Picard Pourtant interdite, la sous-location de terres agricoles (...)
Socfin’s response to FIAN’s report on land grabbing for palm oil in Sierra Leone
3 April 2019
01 Apr 2019 | BHRRC Socfin denies allegation and argues amongst other things that they went (...)
One of Africa’s most fertile lands is struggling to feed its own people
3 April 2019
02 Apr 2019 | Bloomberg Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's (...)
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The Madhvanis: The industrialists who have tasted sucrose and success
2 April 2019
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In Indonesia, a company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits
1 April 2019
26 Mar 2019 | Mongabay A state-owned plantation company, PTPN XIV, is evicting farmers to make (...)
139 groups from 26 countries mark ‘Day of the Landless’
1 April 2019
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How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao
29 March 2019
29 Mar 2019 | Mongabay Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous (...)
Day of the Landless 2019: Reclaim our lands, reclaim our future!
29 March 2019
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Resisting human rights violations in West Africa
28 March 2019
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ING finance l’accaparement de terres en Afrique
28 March 2019
28 Mar 2019 | CNCD et al Sous la pression de SOCFIN, ING a accepté de maintenir ses financements (...)
Le groupe Bolloré condamné pour « procédure abusive » contre France TV
28 March 2019
28 Mar 2019 | Le Parisien Le reportage dénonçait certaines activités de l’entreprise Socapalm qui (...)
After defaulting on loans, Kilombero Plantation Ltd goes up for sale
27 March 2019
27 Mar 2019 | Oakland Institute Kilombero Plantation Ltd, the Tanzanian subsidiary of (...)
As Govt kicks-off investigations into Land disputes in Malen Chiefdom, Green Scenery raises concerns
27 March 2019
27 Mar 2019 | Standard Times The Government of Sierra Leone has kicked-off investigations into (...)
México: Despojan tierras en Yucatán, bajo engaño
27 March 2019
25 Mar 2019 | La Verdad Noticias Con la complicidad de autoridades civiles, agrarias y (...)
Milltrust Agricultural Investments acquires 24.9% in newly established NZ farming venture
26 March 2019
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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda
26 March 2019
26 Mar 2019 | IIED To complement litigation efforts, an alternative and flexible mechanism to (...)
Cambodian indigenous communities win back their sacred land from Vietnamese rubber developer
26 March 2019
26 Mar 2019 | IDI Communities also file second complaint against the World Bank for new (...)
Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues?
26 March 2019
26 Mar 2019 | IIED Report by IIED reviews the approaches European and North American bilateral (...)
Land deals threaten to impair River Nile
26 March 2019
26 Mar 2019 | New Vision Land deals along River Nile could easily impair its recharging (...)
APRA Brief 18: The political economy of agricultural growth corridors in eastern Africa
26 March 2019
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Foreign ownership of water entitlements reveals China and US are the biggest investors
25 March 2019
25 Mar 2019 | ABC The Australian Government's long-awaited foreign ownership of water (...)
Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia
25 March 2019
25 Mar 2019 | Guardian Saudi-based Almarai owns 15,000 acres of an irrigated valley – but what (...)
AgroGeneration : Cession de 9 200 hectares de terres agricoles dans l’Est de l’Ukraine
25 March 2019
25 Mar 2019 | Boursorama Suite à la cession de 37 700 ha en décembre, la société annonce (...)
Quelques conseils aux investisseurs pour réduire le risque foncier dans leurs projets agricoles (ODI)
25 March 2019
25 Mar 2019 | Agence Ecofin Un nouveau rapport du groupe britannique Overseas Development (...)
Guinée: des ONG critiquent la politique nationale de relocalisation
25 March 2019
23 Mar 2019 | RFI Cent mille personnes sont bafouées de leurs droits en Guinée et obligées de (...)
Lamissa Diakité, PDG de l’ATI du Mali : « Nous avons besoin d’investissements dans l’agriculture, première source de croissance de l’économie malienne »
25 March 2019
24 Mar 2019 | Africa Presse Afin d’accélérer le développement de ses terres non exploitées, le Mali (...)
Multinationals must prepare to cede some land to the very poor
25 March 2019
22 Mar 2019 | Daily Nation It is doubtful at Del Monte can continue owning so much land in (...)
Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough
22 March 2019
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L’Office du Niger propose un partenariat à Hassad Food et à l’Alliance Mondiale des Terres Arides
22 March 2019
21 Mar 2019 | Bamada L’Office du Niger entend offrir 50.000 ha à Hassad Food, filiale du Qatar (...)
ING poursuit sa collaboration avec le Groupe Socfin
22 March 2019
21 Mar 2019 | SOCFIN Socfin dément l'information selon laquelle « ING arrêtait momentanément ses (...)
Is rubber the new palm oil?
21 March 2019
21 Mar 2019 | Global Witness As the world’s first Sustainable Rubber Platform is launched, Ali (...)
Madagascar: Rajoelina fait le service après-vente de sa tournée est-africaine
21 March 2019
16 Mar 2019 | RFI « Madagascar n’est pas à vendre. On ne vend pas la terre des ancêtres. Mais je (...)
Violent tensions at Feronia’s oil palm plantations in the DR Congo
20 March 2019
20 Mar 2019 | RIAO-RDC, et al. This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers (...)
Tensions violentes dans les plantations de palmiers à huile de Feronia en RD Congo
20 March 2019
20 Mar 2019 | RIAO-RDC et al. Ce samedi des militaires auraient tiré à balles réelles sur des (...)
Argentina: Macri dio luz verde a un proyecto de ley para las inversiones forestales
20 March 2019
19 Mar 2019 | La Nación El proyecto contempla también una reforma a la ley de Tierras que fija un (...)
Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation
20 March 2019
20 Mar 2019 | Mongabay Brazilian deforestation is most highly driven by land speculation, (...)
Argentina: Otro revés para Benetton y Bullrich en el Poder Judicial
19 March 2019
18 Mar 2019 | Página 12 Deberán sentarse a negociar con los mapuches. La jueza Karina Estefanía (...)
Argentina: Corrientes promueve instalar pastera y vender más tierras a extranjeros
19 March 2019
16 Mar 2019 | El Territorio La provincia de Corrientes apunta a la instalación de industria (...)
CBN vows to make Nigeria world’s third palm oil producer
18 March 2019
18 Mar 2019 | The National The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says that all the states (...)
Grogne des communautés impactées par les plantations de palmiers à huile du Lot1/Mouila d’Olam
18 March 2019
13 Mar 2019 | Gabon Initiatives Les communautés dénoncent les licenciements et les non (...)
Kenya: Survey ordered to settle Del Monte land dispute
15 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | Daily Nation Fruit processor Del Monte will have its land in Murang’a and Kiambu (...)
Kenya: Survey ordered to settle Del Monte land dispute
15 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | Nation US fruit processor Del Monte will have its 8,900 ha of farmland surveyed (...)
Madagascar signe une série d’accords de coopération avec Maurice
14 March 2019
11 Mar 2019 | RFI Le Maurice compte sur une relance de l’agriculture malgache et se réjouit que (...)
Myanmar land reform: Calls for new law to be scrapped
14 March 2019
14 Mar 2019 | Al Jazeera Rights groups are calling on Myanmar's government to scrap a new land (...)
One giant land grab
12 March 2019
12 Mar 2019 | Frontier Myanmar's new land law amendment has its roots in a British colonial (...)
5 key takeaways from launch of ‘Making a Killing’ report
12 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | Trocaire Trócaire’s new report highlights how corporate greed is leading to land (...)
Socfin writes to ’Le Quotidien’
11 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | Le Quotidien The Luxembourgish daily publishes a letter from Socfin, a plantation (...)
Socfin écrit au ’Quotidien’
11 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | Le Quotidien Le journal luxembourgeois publie un courrier de la société Socfin, (...)
Enquête sur Hubert Fabri
11 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | RTBF Entretien avec Quentin Noirfalisse sur Soir Première
Calling out the BS in BonSucro
11 March 2019
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Au Cameroun, Greenpeace Afrique demande à Michelin, Goodyear, Continental et Bridgestone de rompre tout lien avec Sudcam
11 March 2019
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Mali : Plus de 25 000 ha attribués à la diaspora de 2000 à nos jours
11 March 2019
09 Mar 2019 | Maliactu A ce jour, 25 280 hectares ont été attribués à des Maliens résidant dans (...)
Human rights complaint filed to UK government against ethical sugar association Bonsucro
11 March 2019
11 Mar 2019 | IDI Representatives of more than 700 Cambodian families who were violently (...)
Tout propriétaire de terres rurales au Togo doit les mettre en valeur
9 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | CommodAfrica Le gouvernement contraint « tout propriétaire d’un fonds de terre rural (...)
Breaking the silence: Industrial oil palm and rubber plantations bring harassment, sexual violence and abuse against women
8 March 2019
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Briser le silence : violences à l’encontre des femmes à l’intérieur et autour des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas
8 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | GRAIN Le 8 mars nous nous associons aux femmes impactées par l’expansion violente (...)
Chinese banana plantations in Lao district leave locals with little land to farm
8 March 2019
05 Mar 2019 | Radio Free Asia Concessions of land made by the government of Laos to Chinese (...)
En Birmanie, plusieurs millions de personnes risquent d’être chassées de leurs terres
8 March 2019
08 Mar 2019 | France Info Une loi sur les terres dites vacantes risque de faciliter la (...)
Global Witness celebrates agreement on EU investor due diligence
8 March 2019
07 Mar 2019 | Global Witness European investors will now need to disclose the steps they have (...)
Global land grab gathers pace
8 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | Trócaire Trócaire launches Lent campaign with new report 'Making a Killing' on (...)
Defamatory vs defamation
7 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | GRAIN Over the past few years, civil society groups have been drawn into a (...)
Diffamatoire ou diffamation ?
7 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | GRAIN Au cours des dernières années, des organisations de la société civile ont été (...)
Accaparement de terres et huile de palme en Sierra Leone
7 March 2019
07 Mar 2019 | FIAN Belgium FIAN Belgium publie un nouveau rapport "Accaparement de terres et (...)
SOCFIN under scrutiny over alleged abuses and malpractices in Africa despite pledges to clean up its act
7 March 2019
22 Feb 2019 | IDM Recent reports have shed light on land rights violations and other abuses (...)
Socfin, palme d’or
7 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | Médor Enquête de Médor sur le groupe Socfin (seulement disponible en (...)
Conflit Bunong : Socfin-KCD répond aux accusations
7 March 2019
05 Mar 2019 | Cambodgemag Dans un communiqué diffusé aux medias locaux en février 2019, Socfin-KCD (...)
Colombia: El invisible acaparamiento de tierras
7 March 2019
05 Mar 2019 | Blogs El Tiempo La creciente deforestación en el Guaviare está asociada al (...)
After local outcry, a Harvard-owned vineyard project faces environmental review
6 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | Harvard Crimson Despite Cuyama Valley being one of the most severely overdrawn (...)
Socfin/Cambodge : Les terres rouges des Bunongs perdues à jamais ?
6 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | Médor Enquête de Cédric Vallet sur une concession litigieuse sur laquelle flottent (...)
ING arrête les frais avec Socfin
6 March 2019
06 Mar 2019 | Metro ING a décidé d’arrêter momentanément ses crédits au groupe luxembourgeois Socfin (...)
Letter to Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
5 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | ESCR-Net ESCR-Net has written to President Bio about the human rights violations (...)
Hassad signs MoU with Rwanda Development Board
4 March 2019
18 Nov 2018 | The Peninsula Hassad Foods has signed an MoU with the Rwanda Development Board to (...)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
4 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | IIED Today, certain legal arrangements are facilitating unsustainable resource (...)
Rwanda, Israel firm ink $66M to develop Gabiro Agribusiness Hub
4 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | KT Press The Rwanda Development Board signs agreement with Israeli firm Netafim (...)
DFID: Responsible agricultural investment right for Sierra Leone
4 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | Condord Times “We need to work with affected communities to negotiate mutually (...)
Saudis are in town for SA agriculture
4 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | Ag. Economics Today A Saudi delegation met with South Africa’s Minister of (...)
SIA 2019 : Les avantages de l’Office du Niger expliqués aux investisseurs
4 March 2019
04 Mar 2019 | Malijet Un représentantant de l'Office du Niger était présent au Salon International (...)
Myanmar land ownership law could displace millions of farmers
4 March 2019
01 Mar 2019 | DW Under a land reformation act, millions of farmers across Myanmar could be (...)
Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company in $70m deal to buy John Nicoletti’s Wheatbelt farms
1 March 2019
01 Mar 2019 | West Australian The Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company has emerged (...)
Norway’s wealth fund ditches 33 palm oil firms over deforestation
1 March 2019
28 Feb 2019 | Reuters Norway’s US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has (...)
After decades of conflict, land deadline looms for Myanmar villagers
28 February 2019
26 Feb 2019 | Reuters As refugees began to trickle back, many found their land had been taken (...)
Sierra Tropical to open pineapple factory in Bo District
27 February 2019
11 Sep 2018 | Awoko The subsidiary of Dole Asia, which is owned by Itochu of Japan, has (...)
Supreme Court rules that World Bank Group can be sued in US Courts in historic decision
27 February 2019
27 Feb 2019 | CIEL US Supreme Court rules that the World Bank's IFC can be sued. This may (...)
Malen women cry for help
27 February 2019
27 Feb 2019 | Culture Radio The women of Malen, Sierra Leone are demanding that the lands taken (...)
Ontario Teachers’ acquires one of the largest private apple orchard operations in the US in $288m deal
26 February 2019
26 Feb 2019 | GAI The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired Broetje Orchards, one of the (...)
UAE Prince Nahyan unveils interest to invest In Liberia’s agric sector
25 February 2019
25 Feb 2019 | APA The Prince said his country currently has agriculture cooperation agreements (...)
Republic of Congo takes unprecedented decision on large-scale agriculture in forest areas
25 February 2019
15 Feb 2019 | WWF A new Ministerial order states that all large scale agricultural activities (...)
Position statement: Agro-industries
25 February 2019
25 Oct 2018 | Standard Chartered Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related (...)
Le Liberia et Sime Darby, le grand désenchantement ?
25 February 2019
22 Feb 2019 | Agence Ecofin L’entreprise qui a signé en 2009 un contrat de concession de 63 ans (...)
Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa
25 February 2019
25 Feb 2019 | Reuters Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in (...)
Sime Darby Plantation considers exiting West Africa palm oil operations -sources
22 February 2019
22 Feb 2019 | Reuters Sime Darby, the world’s biggest oil palm planter by land holdings, is (...)
Sexual violence & threats documented at Liberia Agricultural Company
22 February 2019
22 Feb 2019 | FPA New report alleges that residents of Grand Bassa, Margibi and Bong Counties (...)
Interview with Nic Wrathall, director of Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley
22 February 2019
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S’approprier la terre : du libéralisme au néocolonialisme
21 February 2019
21 Feb 2019 | France Culture Depuis la crise de 2008, la terre agricole a la cote auprès des (...)
Un exploitant de caoutchouc déloge des fermiers libériens
21 February 2019
20 Feb 2019 | PPP Infractions au droit foncier, expulsions, violences: Le groupe luxembourgeois (...)
Une alimentation adéquate pour la population malgache d’abord, exporter après
21 February 2019
18 Feb 2019 | TANY « Madagascar, grenier de l’Océan Indien » vise à exporter les produits agricoles (...)
Land grabbing for palm oil in Sierra Leone
21 February 2019
21 Feb 2019 | FIAN Belgium FIAN Belgium publishes a new report "Land Grabbing for Palm Oil in (...)
Rubber group ousts farmers in Liberia
21 February 2019
20 Feb 2019 | Bread for All Land rights violations, expulsions, violence: According to a report (...)
Saudi Arabia asks India to allow foreign ownership in real estate
20 February 2019
20 Feb 2019 | Economic Times Saudi Arabia wants India to change its laws to allow Saudis to own (...)
Sierra Leone: turning towards agri-business
19 February 2019
19 Feb 2019 | BBC The BBC's Hassan Arouni speaks to Sierra Leone's foreign minister Dr. Alie (...)
Kenya: New investor lands at Yala Swamp
19 February 2019
15 Feb 2019 | Standard The Siaya county government has given the green light for a new investor (...)
The rebirth of Harvard’s divestment movement
19 February 2019
14 Feb 2019 | The Crimson A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a (...)
Elite Foods in Zambia on Monday to look at investing in the Northern Province
15 February 2019
15 Feb 2019 | Lusaka Times Elite Foods CEO says his South African company wishes to take (...)
Argentina: Benetton y el Estado contra los Mapuches
15 February 2019
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Cameroun: la sécurisation de ces terres des peuples autochtones en débat à Kribi (Sud)
15 February 2019
15 Feb 2019 | Actucameroun "L'accaparement des terres reste une réalité ici avec les grands (...)
Nous, paysans et éleveurs du Sénégal, voilà pour qui nous allons voter…
14 February 2019
13 Feb 2019 | Senenews « Nous, paysans et éleveurs, allons voter pour celui-là qui mettra fin au (...)
Harvard activists rally, petition for divestment from farmland, prison industry
13 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | The Crimson Students gathered in front of Harvard’s central administration to urge (...)
La Socfin se désiste de son appel contre Mediapart et deux ONG
13 February 2019
13 Feb 2019 | AFP La Socfin, une holding propriétaire de plantations en Afrique et en Asie, dont (...)
Paysans cambodgiens contre Bolloré: audience renvoyée
13 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | AFP Une audience prévue à Paris dans la procédure qui oppose des paysans cambodgiens (...)
Ethnic group ‘disappointed’ to be denied French visas to attend court
13 February 2019
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The dormant breadbasket of the Asia-Pacific
12 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | The Diplomat The Russian government has actively supported foreign investment in (...)
US: Large Washington tree fruit companies compelled to sell out
12 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | Growing Produce Two of Washington’s largest tree fruit orchards have been taken (...)
CAAPA investors engage gov’t
12 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | Global Times Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Agriculture tells agribusiness (...)
Cambodge. La bataille des paysans bunongs face au groupe Bolloré
12 February 2019
12 Feb 2019 | L'Humanité 77 membres de cette ethnie minoritaire vivant au Cambodge assignent en (...)
Kinston firm looks to raise $1.5 billion for agriculture investments
11 February 2019
11 Feb 2019 | WRAL International Farming Corp., a Kinston-based agricultural investment (...)
"Complément d’enquête" sur Bolloré: France Télévisions rejugé mardi sur intérêts civils
11 February 2019
11 Feb 2019 | AFP La cour d'appel de Versailles, en France, doit se pencher demain sur le volet (...)
Accaparement des terres : le Cameroun se dote d’un Observatoire du foncier
11 February 2019
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Paraguay: Deforestación masiva y tierras fiscales en manos de extranjeros
8 February 2019
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FirstFarms A/S purchases pig and crop farm in Slovakia as part of growth strategy
8 February 2019
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Oil palm companies connected to land grabbing, illegal deforestation and industrial pollution in Latin America
8 February 2019
14 Jan 2019 | IDM A Mongabay Latam series on the oil palm industry in several Latin American (...)
The major players in agri-finance
8 February 2019
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Sierra Leone: Aftermath of Malen killing - rights groups exonerate Hon. sama, others
7 February 2019
07 Feb 2019 | Concord Times Report calls on SOCFIN to comply with the request by affected (...)
UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (in Japanese) 国連小農権利宣言(最終版、日本語訳)
6 February 2019
04 Feb 2019 | 国連総会で最終的に採択された「小農と農村で働く人びとの権利に関する国連宣言」の最終版の日本語全訳を掲載します。
Jigawa sugar plantation takes off despite resistance
5 February 2019
18 Aug 2018 | Daily Trust About 12,000 hectares of land in four local government areas of the (...)
Cambodia: Preah Vihear land dispute drags on
5 February 2019
05 Feb 2019 | Phnom Penh Post Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to (...)
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5 February 2019
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2 February 2019
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31 January 2019
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31 January 2019
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31 January 2019
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31 January 2019
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31 January 2019
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30 January 2019
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29 January 2019
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29 January 2019
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29 January 2019
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29 January 2019
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29 January 2019
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28 January 2019
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27 January 2019
21 Jan 2019 |
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26 January 2019
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25 January 2019
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25 January 2019
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25 January 2019
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25 January 2019
24 Jan 2019 |
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25 January 2019
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24 January 2019
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24 January 2019
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23 January 2019
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23 January 2019
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22 January 2019
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22 January 2019
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22 January 2019
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21 January 2019
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19 January 2019
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19 January 2019
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19 January 2019
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19 January 2019
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17 January 2019
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17 January 2019
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16 January 2019
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16 January 2019
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16 January 2019
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15 January 2019
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15 January 2019
15 Jan 2019 |
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15 January 2019
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15 January 2019
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15 January 2019
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12 January 2019
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10 January 2019
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10 January 2019
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10 January 2019
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10 January 2019
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9 January 2019
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8 January 2019
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8 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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7 January 2019
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4 January 2019
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4 January 2019
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4 January 2019
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27 December 2018
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24 December 2018
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20 December 2018
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20 December 2018
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19 December 2018
02 Dec 2018 | Sierra
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19 December 2018
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19 December 2018
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19 December 2018
18 Dec 2018 | CRR
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15 December 2018
14 Dec 2018 |
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14 December 2018
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14 December 2018
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14 December 2018
13 Dec 2018 | Zim Eye
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14 December 2018
13 Dec 2018 | CRR
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12 December 2018
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12 December 2018
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12 December 2018
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12 December 2018
11 Dec 2018 | Daily Sabah
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11 December 2018
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10 December 2018
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8 December 2018
07 Dec 2018 | Reuters
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7 December 2018
06 Dec 2018 | Standard Times
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7 December 2018
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7 December 2018
06 Dec 2018 | War on Want
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Declaração de Tóquio: “Reiteramos a rejeição ao ProSAVANA e ao MATOPIBA e defendemos a soberania alimentar dos povos”
6 December 2018
05 Dec 2018 | Biodiversidad en América Latina
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5 December 2018
05 Dec 2018 | AFP
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4 December 2018
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4 December 2018
03 Dec 2018 | AFR
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4 December 2018
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4 December 2018
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4 December 2018
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3 December 2018
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3 December 2018
30 Nov 2018 | AFP
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Tokyo declaration: “We reiterate the rejection of ProSavana and MATOPIBA and defend the food sovereignty of the peoples”
1 December 2018
30 Nov 2018 | Na?o ao ProSAVANA
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1 December 2018
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Karan Beef cashes in on exponential growth in demand from China
29 November 2018
29 Nov 2018 | Bloomberg
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29 November 2018
28 Nov 2018 | The Gecko Project
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Turkish agriculture sector to begin funding in Sudan
29 November 2018
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29 November 2018
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28 November 2018
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28 November 2018
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28 November 2018
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27 November 2018
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Kazakhstan bans foreigners to obtain, rent agricultural land plots
27 November 2018
22 Feb 2018 | Trend
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27 November 2018
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27 November 2018
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27 November 2018
26 Nov 2018 | IPP Media
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27 November 2018
23 Nov 2018 | Deutsche Welle
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24 November 2018
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23 November 2018
23 Nov 2018 | RFI
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23 November 2018
22 Nov 2018 | Le Vif/L'Express
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23 November 2018
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23 November 2018
16 Nov 2018 | Land in Our Hands
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22 November 2018
22 Nov 2018 | RFI
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CBK seeks answers about Karuturi saga
22 November 2018
22 Nov 2018 | The Standard
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21 November 2018
20 Nov 2018 | AIP
L’accaparement des terres résiduelles pour les monocultures extensibles par des (...)
Meru woos Chinese investors with free land, licences
21 November 2018
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21 November 2018
21 Nov 2018 | The Chronicle
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21 November 2018
21 Nov 2018 | The Land
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21 November 2018
18 Nov 2018 | Reuters
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20 November 2018
12 Oct 2018 | PCFS
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20 November 2018
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20 November 2018
19 Nov 2018 | FrontPageAfrica
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20 November 2018
19 Nov 2018 | Eagle News
The Philippines and PNG signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement for (...)
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20 November 2018
19 Nov 2018 | MadaGate
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19 November 2018
16 Nov 2018 | Alencontre
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17 November 2018
16 Nov 2018 | GRAIN et le Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches (TANY)
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17 November 2018
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16 November 2018
01 Oct 2018 | Mokai
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16 November 2018
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15 November 2018
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15 November 2018
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15 November 2018
14 Nov 2018 | QCL
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15 November 2018
14 Nov 2018 | Khmer Times
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15 November 2018
14 Nov 2018 | OZY
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15 November 2018
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15 November 2018
13 Nov 2018 | TV5MONDE
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15 November 2018
11 Nov 2018 | Xinhua
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13 November 2018
13 Nov 2018 | Reuters
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13 November 2018
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13 November 2018
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13 November 2018
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13 November 2018
12 Nov 2018 | Africa Nº1
En RDC, neuf communautés villageoises ont déposé plainte contre la société (...)
Preah Vihear villagers summoned to court for ‘detaining’ bulldozer
13 November 2018
12 Nov 2018 | Phnom Penh Post
two NGO staff and 10 Kuoy indigenous villagers were summoned to (...)
German bank caught in DRC colonial land dispute
13 November 2018
12 Nov 2018 | AFP
A German state-owned bank has found itself at the centre of a battle in the (...)
Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company closes deal with Mriya Agro Holding
13 November 2018
12 Nov 2018 | Reuters
SALIC UK Ltd and Mriya Farming PLC have completed the deal to acquire a (...)
Bénin : mobilisation des paysans ouest-africains pour l’accès sécurisé à la terre, l’eau
13 November 2018
11 Nov 2018 | Banouto
Samedi 10 novembre 2018, les organisations paysannes du Bénin étaient (...)
Include land-related repression in Cambodia probe, UN rights envoy urged
13 November 2018
12 Nov 2018 | PCFS
Groups call on UN Special Rapporteur to look into the recent spate of (...)
Accord en vue en Europe sur la surveillance des investissements étrangers
9 November 2018
09 Nov 2018 | Les Echos
L'Union européenne va créer un mecanisme de surveillance des (...)
Land purchases: tension in Kazakhstan
9 November 2018
06 Jun 2016 | Momagri
From late April to late May several public events were attended by (...)
Laos Rights group demands transparency in case against 10 Lao villagers jailed over land dispute
9 November 2018
07 Nov 2018 | Radio Free Asia
civil society organization in Laos has called on the government (...)
Au Sahara occidental, l’offensive économique du Maroc
9 November 2018
08 Nov 2018 | Le Monde
Les autorités marocaines vient d'organiser un grand forum d’affaires à (...)
Court orders oil palm company to return land and pay arrears of rent to landowners in Sierra Leone
9 November 2018
08 Nov 2018 | Namati
The High Court of Sierra Leone has ordered bailiffs to return 41,582 (...)
Lancement à Nouakchott de la 2ème édition de la «Caravane ouest-africaine pour la Terre, l’Eau et les Semences »
8 November 2018
05 Nov 2018 | Kassataya
L’objectif de la caravane est de créer une force de proposition dans les (...)
DRC communities file complaint with German development bank to resolve century-old land conflict with palm oil company
8 November 2018
07 Nov 2018 | RIAO-RDC et al
The communities of the DR Congo want a resolution to a land (...)
Des communautés de la RDC déposent une plainte auprès d’une banque de développement allemande pour résoudre un conflit foncier centenaire avec une société d’huile de palme
8 November 2018
07 Nov 2018 | RIAO-RDC et al
Neuf communautés de la RDC ont déposé une plainte auprès de la banque (...)
When land becomes a global financial asset: The MATOPIBA case in Brazil
7 November 2018
07 Nov 2018 | GNRFN
How can it be that finance centers in New York or Stockholm exercise (...)
Sign the statement! RSPO: 14 years failing to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector
6 November 2018
31 Oct 2018 | WRM
We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces (...)
Demanda mundial por papel higiênico amplia desmatamento no cerrado brasileiro
6 November 2018
30 Oct 2018 | Reporter Barsil
Produtores de eucalipto mudaram-se da Mata Atlântica para o (...)
Affaires Daewoo et terrain de la FJKM: les abus fonciers de Ravalomanana
6 November 2018
03 Nov 2018 | News Mada
Certains tentent de faire oublier les affaires louches impliquant (...)
Huile de palme : front social orageux pour Olam au Gabon
6 November 2018
02 Nov 2018 | Jeune Afrique
Un conflit social sur la principale plantation gabonaise de (...)
Paraguay: Territorio en disputa
6 November 2018
31 Oct 2018 | BASE-IS
Un nuevo Informe Especial, elaborado por los investigadores Abel Areco y (...)
Terres malgaches et élections présidentielles
5 November 2018
05 Nov 2018 | Collectif TANY
Selon le Collectif TANY, une des premières étapes importantes qui (...)
Une caravane pour lutter contre l’accaparement des terres et les semences OGM
4 November 2018
03 Nov 2018 | RFI
« Ils sont en train de produire du niébé Bt et de l’arachide Bt probablement pour (...)
Seeds of resistance, harvests of hope: Farmers halt a land grab in Mozambique
1 November 2018
30 Oct 2018 | FoodTank
With a massive Chinese rice plantation project floundering, the Tsakane (...)
Global hunger for soybeans ’destroying Brazil’s Cerrado savanna’
1 November 2018
30 Oct 2018 | BBC
The Cerrado savanna is an area in Brazil the same size as Western Europe. (...)
Three MoUs signed at Agriscape 2018
1 November 2018
30 Oct 2018 | Gulf News
MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda (...)
Sénégal : Des milliers d’hectares affectés à des investisseurs étrangers sans l’accord des populations
1 November 2018
31 Oct 2018 | Sud Quotidien
Le phénomène de l'accaparement des terres perdure dans la région de (...)
Quick take: Why is African agribusiness luring GCC investors?
1 November 2018
31 Oct 2018 | The National
Investors from the Middle East have been tempted by African (...)
PIC buys into Africa’s biggest feedlot in $365 million deal
30 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg
The South African state-workers’ pension funds and black-economic (...)
Sand heavier than soil: UAE venture on agricultural land in Serbia
30 October 2018
29 Oct 2018 | EWB
Serbian farmlands that were recently cultivated, used and improved by 80 (...)
Private sector to drive Command Agriculture
30 October 2018
29 Oct 2018 | Bulawayo
In order to facilitate private sector investment in agriculture, the (...)
New Zealand dairy farm prices drop 18 pct as environmental, foreign investment concerns bite
30 October 2018
29 Oct 2018 | NZ Herald
Environmental rules and tighter restrictions on foreign ownership are (...)
UAE and Uganda to establish one of the world’s first agricultural free zones
30 October 2018
29 Oct 2018 | The National
The 2,500 hectare free zone will allow private companies from the (...)
Les terres agricoles font saliver les investisseurs
29 October 2018
27 Oct 2018 | Le Devoir
Depuis 2009, les dix entreprises les plus actives ont consacré plus de (...)
ING vs ONG: Des investissements bancaires nuisibles aux droits humains
29 October 2018
27 Oct 2018 | RTBF
« Ce qui est sûr, c’est que pour nous, l’autorégulation ne fonctionne pas. (...)
Burkina Faso : « Pour que le droit d’accès à la terre des femmes soit protégé »
29 October 2018
25 Oct 2018 | La Croix
Depuis cinq à dix ans, le milieu rural burkinabè est en proie à (...)
Decades of dispossession: indigenous Brazilians battle to get back land
29 October 2018
25 Oct 2018 | Reuters
Decades-long legal battle over ancestral land had forced indigenous (...)
Olam Palm Gabon: Des revendications et des récriminations
26 October 2018
25 Oct 2018 | Gabon Review
Les responsables de la société Olam Palm Gabon, confrontés à une grève (...)
[Interview] Gestion du foncier « En attendant la loi foncière, la financiarisation des terres s’accélère »
26 October 2018
26 Oct 2018 | Terre-net
« Si elle n’est pas freinée à court terme, la financiarisation du foncier (...)
Olam Palm Gabon : Chaleur de grève à Mouila !
26 October 2018
26 Oct 2018 | Gabon News
Le déclenchement de la grève des travailleurs de la société Olam Palm (...)
Lobbying : les Amis de la Terre France déposent un recours contre le Conseil constitutionnel
26 October 2018
25 Oct 2018 | Amis de la Terre
Face aux censures répétées de mesures législatives d’intérêt (...)
Petite géographie du palmier à huile
26 October 2018
25 Oct 2018 | Visionscarto
L’atmosphère est moite, les températures oscillent entre 24° et 28 °C. (...)
Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | Mongabay
A controversial new railroad, Ferrogrão (Grainrail), is poised to (...)
Brasil: Amarantino participa de organização que vai à Suíça denunciar violação de Direitos Humanos
23 October 2018
18 Oct 2018 | Somos Noticia
Violações sofridas pelas comunidades tradicionais do Cerrado (...)
Environmentalists accuse ING of ’greenwashing’ at Brussels demo
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | Euronews
One of the more specific projects targeted by the activists involves the (...)
ING finances controversial palm oil companies in spite of sustainability policy
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | FIAN et al
As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society (...)
Acquittement général au procès Socfin-Hubert Fabri
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | L'Echo
La 11e chambre de la cour d'appel a acquitté ce matin l'homme d'affaires (...)
Action de dénonciation : la banque ING continue de financer des plantations d’huile de palme controversées
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | FIAN et al
Alors qu’ING lance une campagne sur l’investissement durable, un groupe (...)
Shanghai’s Pengxin diverted $567 million to Brazil after snub on Kidman sale
23 October 2018
08 Oct 2018 | AFR
Shanghai-based conglomerate Pengxin redirected the $US400 million it was (...)
Lao villagers denied payment for land by Vietnamese firm
23 October 2018
18 Oct 2018 | Radio Free Asia
Lao villagers being refused compensation by Vietnam-owned rubber (...)
Gunn Agri acquires the 484,000-hectare Abingdon Downs
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | Global AgInvesting
Farm and asset management company Gunn Agri announced it has (...)
Sierra Leone: Investors and landowners reach consensus on land governance
23 October 2018
23 Oct 2018 | Awoko
The peace agreement signed between Makpele chiefdom and Natural Habitat was (...)
Les affrontements informationnels autour du projet ProSavana au Mozambique
22 October 2018
22 Oct 2018 | Infoguerre
La mobilisation de la société civile contre ProSavana est inédite et ne (...)
Traité "Entreprises et droits humains" : l’appel de la société civile ne peut rester sans réponse de la part de l’Europe
22 October 2018
22 Oct 2018 | Le Vif
Fassia et Joseph sont venus de Sierra Leone pour témoigner d'abus (...)
New report highlights human rights abuses caused by SABL land grab
22 October 2018
15 Oct 2018 | ActNow PNG
The SABL Land Grab: Papua New Guinea’s Ongoing Human Rights Scandal, a (...)
Int’l mission decries state neglect, rights violations in Cambodia land dispute with Chinese company
19 October 2018
14 Oct 2018 | PCFS
International groups submitted to the United Nations (UN) officials the (...)
ILC Bandung Declaration links agrarian reform to land and social justice
18 October 2018
27 Sep 2018 | IISD
The Bandung Declaration by members of the International Land Coalition (...)
Accaparement des terres, corruption et crime industriel : mise à jour
18 October 2018
17 Oct 2018 | GRAIN
GRAIN a appris récemment que plusieurs cas d'accaparement des terres ont (...)
Landgrabbing, illicit finance and corporate crime: an update
18 October 2018
17 Oct 2018 | GRAIN
GRAIN recently learned that several cases of land grabbing have been (...)
Dirty deals threaten Kenya’s food security, report says
18 October 2018
17 Oct 2018 | Business Daily
A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit says land grabs are (...)
County government denies leasing Yala swamp to West Kenya Sugar Company
17 October 2018
11 Oct 2018 | KNA
Siaya county government has not surrendered the Yala swamp to a private sugar (...)
China hungers for Brazil’s grain
17 October 2018
01 Oct 2018 | Global Finance
Chinese producers in Brazil should not export soybeans to China, (...)
Fate of troubled Karuturi to be known December
17 October 2018
16 Oct 2018 | Nation
Kenya's Court of Appeal is in December expected to determine if Karuturi (...)
Ndiawdoune rejette le canal du PDIDAS : les populations fustigent « la méthode « solidaire et discriminatoire » du projet
16 October 2018
15 Oct 2018 | Ndar Info
La construction d’un futur canal reliant Makhana et Ndiawsir provoque (...)
Caravane en vue contre l’accaparement des terres par les nantis
14 October 2018
12 Oct 2018 | Le Temps
La caravane débutera en Guinée, passera par la Côte d’Ivoire, le Ghana, le (...)
IFC likely to extend $10m debt to Phoenix Commodities’ Kazakhstan project
12 October 2018
12 Oct 2018 | Deal Street Asia
Phoenix Fruits, a subsidiary of Phoenix Commodities, the global (...)
ANZ bank issued rare rebuke by Australian oversight body
11 October 2018
11 Oct 2018 | IDI
ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights (...)
Banco Mundial—FMI Culpables de Promover el Acaparamiento de Tierra, Incrementar la Desigualdad
11 October 2018
11 Oct 2018 | La Vía Campesina
“Reunión anual en Bali esta semana es tan sólo un engaño para tapar (...)
France : Opération anti-accaparement foncier en Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
11 October 2018
11 Oct 2018 | Euractiv
Pour décourager les achats d’hectares agricoles par des investisseurs (...)
Paraguay: Labriegos denunciaron agresión de brasiguayos
11 October 2018
10 Oct 2018 | Última Hora
El senador Sixto Pereira, del Frente Guasu, recibió a una comitiva del (...)
Mali : Le projet agropole de Morila voit le jour
11 October 2018
09 Oct 2018 | bamada
Un centre agrobusiness sera développé sur 1 400 ha de terres appartenant aux (...)
Brief: $171M Washington State farmland deal the largest in U.S. this year
10 October 2018
04 Oct 2018 | Global AgInvesting
An investor has paid $171 million to acquire 14,500 acres of (...)
Que va faire Sifca de ses €90 millions ?
10 October 2018
10 Oct 2018 | Commodafrica
L’agroindustriel ivoirien Sifca va bénéficier d’un prêt de €90 millions (...)
EBRD launches new agribusiness strategy
10 October 2018
10 Oct 2018 | EBRD
Addressing the growing challenges that the agribusiness sector faces in the (...)
Harvard Management Company Inc’s Natural Resources Sustainable Investing Guidelines
10 October 2018
10 Oct 2018 | Harvard
Harvard University's endowment fund has 5 principles that guide its (...)
Au Brésil, la protection de onze nouvelles réserves du Rondonia est abolie
10 October 2018
10 Oct 2018 | Reporterre
Le lobby brésilien de l’agroalimentaire a réussi à amalgamer dans un (...)
How Harvard’s investments exacerbate global land and water conflicts
10 October 2018
09 Oct 2018 | Grist
The elite university has quietly become one of the largest owners of (...)
Le Cameroun va importer 100 000 tonnes d’huile de palme brute du Gabon et de l’Indonésie
10 October 2018
09 Oct 2018 | Afrique Media TV
Malgré les grands projets menés par des investisseurs étrangers, (...)
World Bank – IMF guilty of promoting land grabs, increasing inequality
9 October 2018
08 Oct 2018 | LVC
Peasant organisations have pledged to expose the incriminating role of the (...)
Karuturi staff hopeful as they await key ruling in December
8 October 2018
08 Oct 2018 | The Star
Kenya's court of appeal will rule on the 20th of December on the (...)
Phatisa Food Fund 2 first closes at $121.5 million
5 October 2018
04 Oct 2018 | Ecofin
Phatisa will continue its focus on the African food value chain – (...)
Phatisa Food Fund 2 cloture sa première levée de fonds
5 October 2018
03 Oct 2018 | FinancialAfrik
Phatisa annonce la première levée de son troisième fonds, le Phatisa (...)
Longmate to ship 30,000 tonnes of banana to China
5 October 2018
05 Oct 2018 | Khmer Times
The company has cleared and irrigated 300 ha of land on its 1000 ha (...)
Rise of the ’megafarms’: how UK agriculture is being sold off and consolidated
5 October 2018
05 Oct 2018 | MENAFN
Across the UK, farm land is now seen as a safe shelter for wealth – (...)
CCI of Uzbekistan holds talks with Shanyang province delegation
5 October 2018
05 Oct 2018 | UzDaily
The purpose of the visit was to discuss investment climate of Uzbekistan (...)
Theological reflection on land
5 October 2018
05 Oct 2018 | AEFJN-AFJN-SECAM-RECOWA
An exploration on laudato si’s approach to our (...)
The toll of doing business on people and the environment in Indonesia
4 October 2018
02 Oct 2018 | Oakland Institute
New report from Oakland Institute, Indonesia: The World Bank’s (...)
Sierra Leone: China Hunan to cultivate 35,000 hectares of rice
3 October 2018
26 Sep 2018 | Awoko
At a meeting between Hainan International Group and Sierra Leone's Minister (...)
Cerrado deforestation disrupts water systems, poses business risks for soy producers
3 October 2018
02 Oct 2018 | CRR
Report investigates how the water impacts within the region from (...)
It’s sunny-side up for Kaipara community after Tegel mega-farm scrapped
3 October 2018
02 Oct 2018 | RNZ
Local leaders celebrate decision by New Zealand's overseas investment (...)
American company establishes $25 million farm in Osun
3 October 2018
02 Oct 2018 | The Glitters
Cade Creek International of Colorado,US is partnering with the NGO (...)
Bill Gates spent $171 million on Washington farmland, report says
3 October 2018
02 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg
Bill Gates spent $171 million to buy 14,500 acres of farmland in (...)
Office du Niger: towards the resumption of works at the Malibya project site
3 October 2018
29 Sep 2018 | Bamada
A delegation from "Malibya Agriculture" was received by Mali's Minister of (...)
Administrative Court condemns Mozambican government to release information on agrarian program
2 October 2018
01 Oct 2018 |
The Administrative Court of Maputo orders the Ministry of Agriculture to provide (...)
Ethiopia revokes land leases for Saudi billionaire, other investors
2 October 2018
01 Oct 2018 | VOA
Ethiopian officials have revoked land leases in Addis Ababa that were held by (...)
Connect the dots: Cerrado soy drives inequality to provide EU with chicken
2 October 2018
01 Oct 2018 | Mongabay
While large-scale soy growers say they’ve brought prosperity to the (...)
L’Ethiopie révoque des baux fonciers d’un milliardaire saoudien
1 October 2018
01 Oct 2018 | Intellivoire
Les responsables éthiopiens ont révoqué des baux fonciers détenus par (...)
Bridging African agriculture’s financing gap
29 September 2018
28 Sep 2018 | Euractiv
“Domestic resources from African countries have to be supplemented by (...)
International Farming Corporation raising $1.5B for US farmalnd fund
29 September 2018
22 Sep 2018 |
The $128 billion Washington State Investment Board is considering investing up (...)
Indian company to invest in poultry sector in Kazakhstan
27 September 2018
27 Sep 2018 | MEAFN
The Indian poultry company Venky's intends to invest in Kazakhstan's (...)
Office du Niger : Vers la reprise des travaux du projet Malibya
27 September 2018
27 Sep 2018 | Bamada.net
Le gouvernement malien a reçu une délégation de « Malibya Agriculture » (...)
Huile de palme : Trois ans sans nouvelles terres en Indonésie
27 September 2018
25 Sep 2018 | La France agricole
Le président indonésien a signé le mercredi 19 septembre 2018 un (...)
Oil palm in Peru: Destruction advancing upon the Amazon
26 September 2018
26 Sep 2018 | WRM
Even though Peru is not a major player in the global palm oil market, (...)
Bolloré contre Bastamag : la saison 2
26 September 2018
25 Sep 2018 | Basta
Le groupe Bolloré avait déposé une seconde plainte en diffamation contre (...)
UAE’s Al Dahra to invest further $500m in Romania
26 September 2018
25 Sep 2018 | Reuters
Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Holding said on Monday it will invest a further (...)
The untold suffering of women living in and around Feronia’s industrial oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
26 September 2018
26 Sep 2018 | WRM
Solange Bolembe of RIAO-RDC, an information and support network for community (...)
O avanço da soja no cerrado brasileiro, mapeado pela Nasa
25 September 2018
21 Sep 2018 | Super Interessante
Imagens feitas pela agência espacial americana acompanham como (...)
Brasil: Corrida por terras ameaça comunidades tradicionais e áreas indígenas, diz professor da UnB
25 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Sul 21
“Os fundos de pensão estão menos preocupados com a produção e muito mais (...)
Argentina, Patagonia: la propuesta de la nueva ley de entrega
25 September 2018
22 Sep 2018 | ADN Río Negro
La Patagonia, con su extenso y rico territorio, sigue siendo un (...)
Hokkaido lands gobbled up by Chinese money
22 September 2018
20 Nov 2017 | Asia Times
A new book published in Japan says China is buying up land, including (...)
Declaration: No to abuse against women in industrial oil palm plantations
22 September 2018
21 Sep 2018 | WRM, GRAIN et al
We said it in Mundemba, Cameroon, we reiterated it in Port Loko, (...)
Liberia passes landmark law to secure ancestral land rights
22 September 2018
21 Sep 2018 | Reuters
Liberia has passed a landmark law that will help communities fight (...)
Preparation of an international guidance document on agricultural land investment contracts
22 September 2018
21 Sep 2018 | Unidroit
A UNIDROIT Working Group is currently developing, in collaboration with (...)
Rise of agri-cartel: Control of land drives human rights violations, environmental destruction
22 September 2018
24 Aug 2018 | Globe Post
Control of land for crops that sustain the world’s largest food (...)
Imposer la vérité face aux tout-puissants: Ces villageoises qui s’opposent au géant de l’huile de palme
21 September 2018
20 Sep 2018 | Fern
La journaliste camerounaise Madeleine Ngeunga et Indra Van Gisbergen de Fern (...)
Liberia : la très attendue loi foncière enfin promulguée
21 September 2018
20 Sep 2018 | AFP
La loi autorise pour la première fois des ressortissants étrangers à faire (...)
Businessman turned philanthropist accused of murders and land theft in Brazil’s Northeast
20 September 2018
02 Sep 2018 | Brasil Reporter
Portrait of a Brazilian businessman accused of violent land (...)
Chinese investors shift agriculture practices in North
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | The Nation
Widespread contract farming for Cavendish bananas to export to China (...)
Move to acquire lands in Sudan for farming
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Daily New Nation
The Government of Bangladesh has decided to acquire land in (...)
Selon Transparency International, le titre foncier est un foyer de corruption le plus dévastateur au Cameroun
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Le Messager
Selon Ti-c, les principaux problèmes que rencontrent les populations (...)
Phnong petition over Mondulkiri land
18 September 2018
31 Aug 2018 | Phnom Penh Post
One hundred Phnong ethnic people in Mondulkiri province’s Busra (...)
Kebbi farmers allege takeover of farmlands
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Daily Trust
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria decries the takeover of 14,000 (...)
Foreign farm tax to drive agri REITs: Pitcher Partners
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | AFR
Under a proposal from Australia's federal government the 15 per cent (...)
Hassad merges its agricultural portfolio with Australian firm
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Gulf Times
Qatar's Hassad Foods continues the strategic repositioning of its (...)
Palma da olio: le piantagioni maledette del Congo orientale
18 September 2018
17 Sep 2018 | Osservatorio Diritti
Guardiani delle piantagioni di palma da olio che tormentano (...)
Mini-dossier : Le parlement allemand controle PHC/Feronia
15 September 2018
14 Sep 2018 | Radio Okapi
Une délégation du parlement allemand vient d'effectuer une mission de (...)
Harvard farmland acquisitions criticized as unethical
15 September 2018
14 Sep 2018 | Chief Investment Officer
A new report accuses Harvard University’s endowment of (...)
’I ran away but she sat there... Then they smiled and shot her’
15 September 2018
14 Sep 2018 | The Journal
Front Line Defenders identifies the root causes of violence in (...)
Nasako Besingi: Freedom to protect the environment 2018
15 September 2018
11 Jul 2018 | Oslo Freedom Forum
In his talk, Environmentalist Nasako Besingi shares how he has (...)
The village women taking on the palm oil giant
15 September 2018
31 Jul 2018 | Fern
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van (...)
Rhode Island slates $75 million for growth equity, farmland funds
14 September 2018
28 Aug 2018 | Pensions & Investments
The Rhode Island State Investment Commission commits (...)
Harvard purchases 741,000 acres and creates conflict with local communities
14 September 2018
13 Sep 2018 | Brasil de Fato
The US university, through its endowment fund, maintains a (...)
The village women taking on the palm oil giant
13 September 2018
12 Sep 2018 | Fern
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van (...)
Saudi Arabia’s Salic is said to be close to Ukraine farming deal
13 September 2018
12 Sep 2018 | Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia’s state-run Salic is nearing a deal to buy Mriya Agro (...)
Cargill quits farming ties to big Temora agribusiness as new investors flood in
13 September 2018
12 Sep 2018 | NQR
The intensifying US-China trade war, plus our comparatively cheap (...)
Harvard’s farmland holdings come under fire in new report
13 September 2018
10 Sep 2018 | Harvard Crimson
A new report details the web of companies with which Harvard (...)
China reaches into Russia’s Far East in hunt for crop supplies
13 September 2018
04 Sep 2018 | Bloomberg
JBA Holdings, a joint venture involving Heilongjiang Agriculture Co. (...)
Journée internationale des monocultures au Gabon
10 September 2018
10 Sep 2018 | La voix de la Dola
Le président de Muyissi environnement à Mouila, Ladislas Désiré (...)
Les mégaprojets agricoles dans le sud de l’Algérie, sont-ils une tromperie ?
10 September 2018
08 Sep 2018 | Maghreb Emergent
Il parait que de richissimes hommes d’affaires algériens ont (...)
Vinamilk invests US$19.7m in Laos firm
9 September 2018
27 Jul 2018 | Vietnam Net
Vinamilk’s general director informed shareholders that the company had (...)
Harvard University accused of land grab & violation of indigenous people’s rights: study
9 September 2018
08 Sep 2018 | Down to Earth
The university's endowment fund, meant to support educational and (...)
Harvard’s foreign farmland investment mess
9 September 2018
07 Sep 2018 | Bloomberg
The university’s holdings in developing markets have proved to be more (...)
Québec : Les libéraux veulent freiner la vente de terres agricoles à des fonds d’investissement
7 September 2018
07 Sep 2018 | Journal du Quebec
Sans le nommer directement, Philippe Couillard s’est engagé à « (...)
Un milliard de dollars de Harvard dans un fiasco lié aux terres agricoles
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | GRAIN et Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
L’un des principaux acquéreurs (...)
El fiasco de Harvard: mil millones de dólares en tierras agrícolas
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | GRAIN y Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
Uno de los mayores compradores (...)
O fiasco agrícola bilionário da Universidade de Harvard
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | GRAIN e Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
Um dos principais compradores de (...)
Harvard’s billion-dollar farmland fiasco
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
One of the world's major (...)
New guides help communities to negotiate fair contracts with investors
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | Namati
With investors increasingly turning to more remote locations for the (...)
The strategic importance of Rakhine State
6 September 2018
06 Sep 2018 | Straits Times
The process of primitive accumulation provides a lens to understand (...)
Le Liberia sur le point de valider une révolution foncière
4 September 2018
04 Sep 2018 | Commodafrica
Au Liberia, on est sur le point de reconnaître les droits coutumiers (...)
Is Guyana ready for mega-farms and genetically modified seeds?
4 September 2018
03 Sep 2018 | Stabroek
In June 2018, Guyana’s Ministry of Agriculture unveiled an agreement with (...)
Sénégal : Les habitants de DIAMA dénoncent l’accaparement de leurs terres par le maire Oumar Mourel Sow
4 September 2018
02 Sep 2018 | DakarActu
Les communautés locales dénoncent l’accaparement de leurs terres par des (...)
Qatar’s five major conglomerates turn to Turkey for investments
4 September 2018
02 Sep 2018 | Daily Sabah
Ahmet Hasan, the general manager of Royal Link, which manages the (...)
La stratégie anti-déforestation et l’huile de palme en Afrique
4 September 2018
30 Aug 2018 | IRIS
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France : des paysans protestent contre l’accaparement des terres par les Chinois
4 September 2018
29 Aug 2018 | AFP
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SABL scandal buried and forgotten
2 September 2018
31 Aug 2018 | Act Now!
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New report pushes back against global land rush
2 September 2018
31 Aug 2018 | Namati
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FAO targets agriculture investments to end hunger In Africa
30 August 2018
29 Aug 2018 | Businessweek
The African Development Bank and the FAO form a new strategic (...)
Riverina farming giant BFB on the block; PwC, CBRE hired
30 August 2018
29 Aug 2018 | AFR
The Australian farming business BFB Pty Ltd, with its portfolio of 28 farms (...)
La loi sur les Zones Economiques Spéciales (ZES) à Madagascar : un abandon volontaire de la souveraineté nationale
30 August 2018
29 Aug 2018 | TANY & CRAAD-OI
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Cross River communities protest, allege land grabbing in Wilmar’s N45b project
28 August 2018
27 Aug 2018 | Guardian
After series of failed appeals, communities impacted by the activities (...)
International financial capital and the Brazilian land market
24 August 2018
28 Jun 2018 | LatAm Perspectives
Brazilian agribusiness corporations have created partnerships (...)
Chinese to invest $500m In cotton farming
24 August 2018
23 Aug 2018 | Daily Guide Africa
Xing Jiang Shian Yon Group Company Limited will invest $500 (...)
Madagascar : La loi sur les ZES déclarée conforme à la Constitution
23 August 2018
13 Aug 2018 | Tribune Madagascar
Cette loi a reçu des contestations de la part de la Société (...)
Alioune Sarr active SenegIndia pour couvrir les besoins du marché
23 August 2018
20 Aug 2018 | APS
Le ministre du Commerce du Sénégal a invité l’entreprise Seng-India à assurer (...)
Madagascar : La loi sur les ZES déclarée conforme à la Constitution
23 August 2018
13 Aug 2018 | Tribune Madagascar
Cette loi a reçu des contestations de la part de la Société (...)
Thai peasants’ movement stands firm in the face of threats, seeks land reform
22 August 2018
30 Jul 2018 | Peoples Dispatch
Peoples Dispatch speaks to the Southern Peasant’s Federation of (...)
Hassad to invest $500mn in Sudan’s food sector
22 August 2018
28 Jun 2018 | Gulf Times
Hassad, a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority, announces its (...)
Laguna Bay Pastoral Company buys eight Smithton dairies
22 August 2018
22 Aug 2018 | The Advocate
Australian agricultural funds manager Laguna Bay Pastoral Company, (...)
L’accaparement des terres, entre Monopoly et colonisation
22 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | Humanité
Les investisseurs internationaux mettent le grappin sur les terres (...)
Cambodia land rights activist freed from jail after pardon
21 August 2018
20 Aug 2018 | Al Jazeera
Tep Vanny, an award-winning Cambodian land rights defender has been (...)
Sokotra Capital buys Tunisian fish-farm business
21 August 2018
03 Aug 2018 | Bloomberg
Sokotra Capital, a Dubai firm set up by former UBS Group AG banker (...)
German Agri Terra Group offers investments in Paraguayan agriculture
21 August 2018
08 Aug 2018 | Fresh Plaza
Hundreds of clients have used the services of the German company in (...)
Community vs. company: A tiny town in Ecuador battles a palm oil giant
17 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | Mongabay
In 2000, palm oil company Energy & Palma bought land in northern (...)
Argentina: El emir de Qatar es el nuevo vecino de Lewis.
17 August 2018
12 Aug 2018 | Cholila Online
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani se llama el emir qatarí que compró 28 mil (...)
Argentina: Magnate italiano cerró tranquera y no permite el paso a un lago
17 August 2018
14 Aug 2018 | Tiempo Sur
Una insólita situación se vive por estos días entre estancias ubicadas en (...)
Uruguay/Paraguay: El efecto dominó del acaparamiento de tierras
17 August 2018
14 Aug 2018 | Comunicaciones Aliadas
Aumento del precio de la tierra en Uruguay llevó a (...)
Bolivia: Acelerado proceso de extranjerización de tierras
17 August 2018
14 Aug 2018 | Comunicaciones Aliadas
Mejores tierras agrícolas y ganaderas en manos de (...)
Russia offers 2.5 million acres of land to Chinese farmers, but will it ease Beijing’s soybean shortage?
15 August 2018
15 Aug 2018 | South China Morning Post
Russia has made 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) (...)
Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
15 August 2018
14 Aug 2018 | China Daily
Serious trade tension between two key players in global agricultural (...)
Cambodia: Free jailed land rights activist. Second anniversary of Tep Vanny’s imprisonment
14 August 2018
13 Aug 2018 | Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch call for Cambodian government to (...)
Indigenous people fighting for land rights
14 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | Place
The right of indigenous people to land and territories is protected by (...)
Organisations back Kuoy land claims
13 August 2018
10 Aug 2018 | Khmer Times
Two organisations expressed concern over land in Preah Vihear (...)
Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon calls for support to defend forests
13 August 2018
07 Aug 2018 | The Ecologist
The palm oil industry is causing severe environmental destruction (...)
Land of plenty, land of but a few
11 August 2018
10 Aug 2018 | Divergente
New webdocumentary about land grabbing in the Nacala Corridor in (...)
Mission citoyenne et nationale d’Olam: l’ONG Muyissi environnement sur ses gardes
11 August 2018
10 Aug 2018 | GMT
Ladislas Désiré Ndembet souhaite que les organisations de la société civile (...)
Foncier rural : l’UE réaffirme son soutien en faveur des droits des populations autochtones
10 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | Infoplus Gabon
5 millions d'€ seront octroyés aux défenseurs des droits de l'homme (...)
Chinese firm’s investment in banana farm approved
9 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | Khmer Times
Cambodian government yesterday gave green light to a Chinese-owned (...)
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day: International groups demand pullout, accountability of Chinese company in Cambodia
9 August 2018
09 Aug 2018 | PCFS
Two global movements supporting Indigenous Kuoy communities in Cambodia (...)
Myanmar allows up to 80% of foreign investment in agriculture sector
9 August 2018
03 Aug 2018 | Eleven Myanmar
Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) have allowed Foreign (...)
Government should clarify land acquisition and compensation
9 August 2018
08 Aug 2018 | Modern Ghana
Deputy Director of Korea Rural Community Corporation on Tuesday (...)
Alternative investment strategies: Investing in farmland
8 August 2018
26 Mar 2015 | Rabo Farm
Presentation in Amsterdam
Le label «huile de palme durable» est-il sur une mauvaise pente?
8 August 2018
08 Aug 2018 | swissinfo
La récente confrontation entre le géant suisse de l’industrie alimentaire (...)
Middle eastern investment in Africa: A means to improve gulf food security?
7 August 2018
19 Jul 2018 | Future Directions
Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on (...)
Así se roban la tierra en Colombia
7 August 2018
31 Jul 2018 | Mongabay
“En la Amazonía están tumbando los territorios baldíos, para luego buscar (...)
Argentina: Condenaron a los asesinos de Solano, pero los ideólogos siguen libres
7 August 2018
02 Aug 2018 | El Tribuno
Los abogados sostienen y fundamentan que Daniel Solano fue asesinado (...)
Se tramita en el Congreso de Colombia la Contrarreforma Agraria del Siglo XXI. La tierra pa’ los empresarios
7 August 2018
01 Aug 2018 | Palabras al Margen
El nuevo Congreso de la República se estrena en funciones con (...)
Land-resource sell-out: Companies becoming more powerful than countries
7 August 2018
04 Aug 2018 | LankaWeb
An overview of land grabbing in Africa and Asia as lessons for Sri (...)
Tanzania’s indigenous communities racing to secure land eyed by investors
7 August 2018
05 Aug 2018 | InDepth News
Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for (...)
Argentina: Piden aclarar sobre venta de tierras al Emir de Qatar
7 August 2018
04 Aug 2018 | ADN Río Negro
El Registro de Propiedad Inmueble de la Provincia de Río Negro tiene (...)
Terra de todos, terra de alguns
7 August 2018
06 Aug 2018 | Divergente
Webdocumentário | Como os camponeses do Norte de Moçambique têm (...)
APEC warned PNG has poor record on food security
7 August 2018
06 Aug 2018 | ActNow PNG
Community advocacy group ACT NOW! warns APEC delegates attending food (...)
Video: The Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal
3 August 2018
31 Jul 2018 | The Gecko Project
A video from The Gecko Project following an indigenous Dayak (...)
Nestle response to Cambodian farmers lawsuit against sugar producer over alleged land grabbing
1 August 2018
31 Jul 2018 | Business and human rights resources centre
Nestle response to the Cambodian (...)
Activists expose role of Dutch banks in the funding of palm oil industry development
1 August 2018
25 Jul 2018 | Radio Mundo Real
Friends of the Earth Netherlands launched a report warn that (...)
Phoenix Group
1 August 2018
25 Jul 2018 | Phoenix Group
An overview of Phoenix's farms in Kazakhstan, at Baimyrza and (...)
Behind the spectacular fall from grace of private equity firm Abraaj
1 August 2018
30 Jul 2018 | Deal Street Asia
Abraaj Capital, the PE firm that was very active in the rush to (...)
Philippines is unsafe for farmers fighting for land
30 July 2018
28 Jul 2018 | PCFS
Statement by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty on the ongoing threats, (...)
Q: What does a global agrifood business do when it wants to focus more on sustainable development? A: It works with OFID.
30 July 2018
30 Jul 2018 | OFID Quarterly
Interview with top executives of Phoenix Group, the world's 3rd (...)
Litige foncier à Dodel et Démette : Les populations attendent toujours du chef de l’État la promulgation du décret d’annulation du projet marocain Afripartners
30 July 2018
30 Jul 2018 | DakarActu
Le collectif des 36 villages impactés par le projet marocain Afri (...)
For indigenous peoples, losing land can mean losing lives
30 July 2018
26 Jul 2018 | Intercontinental Cry
Community land represents the backbone of rural life. Its (...)
Expofrut-Univeg-Greenyard: las responsabilidades empresariales del caso Solano
28 July 2018
18 Jul 2018 | Anred
Univeg (hoy Greenyard) era el grupo empresarial que concentraba entre otras (...)
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia - Land Grabbing
27 July 2018
13 Jul 2018 | Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch submission to the Universial Periodic (...)
Greenpeace Africa urges Halcyon Agri to stop destroying livelihood and biodiversity in Cameroon
26 July 2018
25 Jul 2018 | Greenpeace Africa
Greenpeace Africa published a report explaining how Singaporean (...)
Liberian communities harassed after calling on banks to halt $1.5 billion loan to Wilmar over landgrabbing concerns
26 July 2018
25 Jul 2018 | Inclusive development
Communities affected by Maryland Oil Palm Plantation in (...)
NGOs called to verify data on Koh Kong land dispute
26 July 2018
26 Jul 2018 | Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia provincial government on Tuesday called on civil society (...)
Greenpeace Africa exhorte Halcyon Agri à stopper la destruction des moyens de subsistance des communautés et la biodiversité au Cameroun
26 July 2018
26 Jul 2018 | LaMinute.info
« L’acquisition et l’exploitation des terres de Sudcam est un exemple (...)
Quelques défis à relever pour revitaliser le mouvement paysan congolais
25 July 2018
24 Jul 2018 | ACP
Selon un expert du ministère de développement rural, l’accaparement des terres (...)
Deadliest year on record for land and environmental defenders, as agribusiness shown to be the industry most linked to killings
25 July 2018
24 Jul 2018 | Global Witness
Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and (...)
2017, année meurtrière pour l’environnement
24 July 2018
24 Jul 2018 | Libération
Global Witness confirme la hausse continuelle du nombre de défenseurs de (...)
New study reveals dangers inherent in land registration
24 July 2018
24 Jul 2018 | Act Now!
Customary land registration processes can easily be captured by local (...)
’This is a last hold-out’: son of a murdered farmer in Colombia
23 July 2018
23 Jul 2018 | Guardian
Ramón Bedoya says his father, a land activist, was shot by local (...)
One Tree Agriculture lists Kinbeachie aggregation at Toobeah
23 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | Grain Central
One Tree Agriculture is owned by private equity fund manager, (...)
Liberia’s biggest palm oil project quits eco-certification scheme
23 July 2018
23 Jul 2018 | Reuters
Golden Veroleum quits Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in response to (...)
Le réveil indigène
23 July 2018
20 Jul 2018 | France Inter
Ce matin, Marie-Thérèse est sur le terrain en reportage dans un (...)
’I tended to the bodies’: attacked by the Philippine army
23 July 2018
23 Jul 2018 | Guardian
Villagers in a southern Philippine island of Mindanao massacred amid (...)
Libéria : Golden Veroleum quitte la Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable
23 July 2018
23 Jul 2018 | Agence Ecofin
Golden Veroleum, le 1er producteur d’huile de palme du Libéria, a (...)
Investment Corporation of Dubai-created a partnership with farming company Optimum Agriculture to invest into the Agro business sector
21 July 2018
15 May 2018 | PR Newswire
Once one of Florida's iconic ranching dynasties has sold the balance (...)
Accompagner une répartition juste et équitable des terres dans le Mékong
19 July 2018
18 Jul 2018 | Mediaterre
Le projet Mekong Region Land Governance - financé par les gouvernements (...)
Bolloré : le groupe se lance dans l’huile d’olive
19 July 2018
18 Jul 2018 | Bourse Direct
Le groupe Bolloré va transformer ses fermes de coton et soja aux (...)
As indigenous peoples wait decades for land titles, companies are acquiring their territories
19 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | WRI
Governments should recognize indigenous and community land rights, engage in (...)
Myanmar must provide justice in decades-old land grab cases: HRW
19 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | Radio Free Asia
Myanmar should move quickly to settle decades-old claims by (...)
Dutch company indicates interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria
17 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 |
Cownexxion indicates its interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria on (...)
Reckoning with human rights violations in Thailand’s extraterritorial investments
17 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | The Diplomat
Thai investments in ASEAN have intensified at a breakneck pace. But (...)
Paraguay, Canindeyú: Enfrentamiento entre brasiguayos y campesinos
17 July 2018
11 Jul 2018 | Última Hora
Por un conflicto que guarda relación con unas 45.000 hectáreas de tierra (...)
AAF ESG Annual Report 2017
17 July 2018
31 Mar 2018 | Phatisa
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual (...)
AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
17 July 2018
31 Mar 2017 | Phatisa
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual (...)
AAF ESG Annual Report 2015
17 July 2018
31 Mar 2016 | Phatisa
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual (...)
AAF Tax Policy Statement
17 July 2018
30 Nov 2015 | Phatisa
African Agriculture Fund Policy Statement Regarding Tax and (...)
AAF ESG Annual Report 2014
17 July 2018
31 Mar 2015 | Phatisa
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual (...)
AAF Code of conduct for land acquisition and land use in agricultural and agribusiness projects
17 July 2018
13 Jun 2010 | Phatisa
The African Agriculture Fund and its portfolio companies commit (...)
Myanmar : Des fermiers réclament la restitution de leurs terres
17 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | HRW
Les lois devraient être amendées pour protéger les droits des petits (...)
Commerce massif de terres: le nouveau monopoly
17 July 2018
17 Jul 2018 | AllNews.ch
L’étude porte principalement sur deux pays, le Kenya et (...)
The Rural Women’s Movement held a feminist school, mobilizes collective power to demand climate justice
17 July 2018
16 Jul 2018 | NAPE
During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement (...)
Gabon: l’impact économique du groupe singapourien Olam
13 July 2018
13 Jul 2018 | RFI
Une étude réalisée par l’économiste Mays Mouissi et le défenseur de (...)
Agropole de Ziguinchor : 56 milliards de FCfa d’intentions d’investissements identifiés
13 July 2018
13 Jul 2018 | Le Soleil
Le premier agropole intégré du Sénégal sera lancé en janvier 2019. La mairie (...)
Accord “tout sauf les armes” : la mission de l’UE touche à sa fin
13 July 2018
12 Jul 2018 | LPJ Cambodge
La délégation chargée d’évaluer l’accord « tout sauf les armes » au (...)
EU delegates briefed on sugar land disputes in Cambodia
13 July 2018
12 Jul 2018 | Khmer Times
EU delegation is in Cambodia on fact-finding mission to evaluated the (...)
Farm land deals in Romania to remain on increasing trend
13 July 2018
12 Jul 2018 | Business Review
Authorities are trying to harden the conditions for foreign land (...)
Senegal : Une « opération-pilote » du Pdidas sur le terrain
12 July 2018
11 Jul 2018 | Le Soleil
L’opération pilote sur 200 ha est un champ d’apprentissage pour le Pdidas, (...)
Could EU-Indonesia free trade deal end palm oil conundrum?
12 July 2018
10 Jul 2018 | Euractiv
The EU could commit to only import legal palm oil into the EU and engage (...)
Free economic zone “Bukhoro-Agro” to be created in Uzbekistan
12 July 2018
11 Jul 2018 | UzDaily
The Bukhoro-Agro free economic zone is expected to host local and foreign (...)
COFCO says China can replace U.S. soy imports with alternatives: state media
12 July 2018
11 Jul 2018 | Reuters
“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great (...)
Congo faces $20 mln arbitration claim over failed farming project
10 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | Reuters
A South African company says it has filed for arbitration against (...)
La société sud-africaine qui gérait Bukanga-Lonzo porte plainte contre la RDC
10 July 2018
10 Jul 2018 | RFI
Africom Commodities a saisi la Cour internationale d'arbitrage de la Chambre (...)
Karuturi sues bosses over secret loans
10 July 2018
10 Jul 2018 | The Star
Naivasha-based flower firm Karuturi has sued Stanbic Bank and four (...)
Le bail emphytéotique à Madagascar, est-il une vente de la patrie ?
10 July 2018
09 Jul 2018 | TANY
La mise en location de millions d’hectares de terre malgaches, sous forme de (...)
Dutch-based banks continue to finance deforestation and land-grabbing
9 July 2018
02 Jul 2018 | Milieudefensie
Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved (...)
Sous l’impulsion du CNCR, la société civile sénégalaise s’organise pour contrecarrer l’arrêt de la réforme foncière et la création des zones économiques spéciales (ZES)
8 July 2018
07 Jul 2018 | CNCR
De nouveaux cas d’accaparement de terres ont été également signalés lors d'une (...)
Pétition contre l’huile de palme: un distributeur prend des engagements
6 July 2018
06 Jul 2018 | Protestinfo.ch
Dans le domaine alimentaire, les marques Coop remplaceront l’huile (...)
Why are foreign investors interested in Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector?
6 July 2018
29 Mar 2016 | IWEP
Many large agricultural corporations, especially Italian (Cremonini, (...)
Dangote invests in Katsina tomatoes production project
6 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | Sun News
Dangote said he would expand the project and exploit what he called (...)
Vineyard seizures highlight French worries about Chinese investments
6 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | Nikkei
Judicial police say they have found evidence of money laundering and the (...)
Kazakhstan invites foreign investment in agro-industrial sector
6 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | Times of Central Asia
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Umirzak (...)
Executives of palm oil giant Wilmar resign a week after Greenpeace report
6 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | Eco-Business
The decision was announced a week after Greenpeace issued a report (...)
La especulación de tierras, las violaciones de los derechos humanos y la destrucción ecológica
6 July 2018
04 Jul 2018 | FIAN
Un nuevo informe revela cómo algunos fondos de pensiones, inversiones e (...)
La spéculation foncière mène à des violations des droits humains et à l’éco-destruction au Brésil
5 July 2018
03 Jul 2018 | FIAN et al
Un nouveau rapport révèle comment les fonds de pension internationaux, (...)
Land dispute settled in Koh Kong
5 July 2018
02 Jul 2018 | Khmer Times
Each family agreed, with mixed feelings, to accept two hectares of (...)
Land speculation is leading to human rights violations and eco-destruction in Brazil
5 July 2018
03 Jul 2018 | FIAN et al
A new report uncovers how international pension funds, foreign (...)
À Gnith, l’opération pilote du PDIDAS, suscite des espoirs (vidéo)
5 July 2018
05 Jul 2018 | NDAR Infos
Une mission d’appui de la Banque mondiale et des membres du comité de (...)
La especulación de tierras, las violaciones de los derechos humanos y la destrucción ecológica
5 July 2018
03 Jul 2018 | FIAN et al
Un nuevo informe revela cómo algunos fondos de pensiones, inversiones e (...)
UAE-based Al Dahra aquires Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania
4 July 2018
02 Jul 2018 | Business Reveiw
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the (...)
PNG villagers count huge cost of damage from logging
4 July 2018
03 Jul 2018 | Radio NZ
Communities in Papua New Guinea's West Pomio District will suffer more (...)
Liberia: Another SDI report finds GVL in Sinoe land grab, deforestation
4 July 2018
03 Jul 2018 | FrontPageAfrica
Report finds that Golden Veroleum Liberia violated the rights of (...)
Ukraine to lease state-owned farmland via online auctions
3 July 2018
25 Jun 2018 | Xinhua
Besides curbing corruption in the land rental market, the online auctions (...)
UK tops list of foreign investors in Australian agricultural land
3 July 2018
02 Jul 2018 | Grain Central
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, (...)
Why do Kazakhstanis fear China?
3 July 2018
23 Aug 2016 | China in Central Asia
The earliest land protests took place in 2003 when (...)
L’homme d’affaires Hubert Fabri condamné pour corruption active
1 July 2018
29 Jun 2018 | L'Echo
Le patron du groupe belge Socfin a été déclaré coupable d’avoir été à la tête (...)
L’Etat ivoirien décide la cession de 30% de ses parts dans Palmafrique
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Commodafrica
Les parts de l’entreprise qui possède 3 sites d’exploitations (...)
Overseas investors pull out of farm purchases after government clampdown
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Stuff
The number of foreign buyers pulling out of New Zealand farm purchases has (...)
Danish Ingleby becomes fourth largest farmland owner in Romania
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Romania Insider
Ingleby group is owned by the Swedish billionaire family of Hans (...)
Bordeaux : une dizaine de châteaux et domaines viticoles saisis par la justice
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Sud Ouest
En France, les enquêteurs de l’Office central pour la répression de la (...)
« Accaparement des terres » : le CGAAER propose sa définition
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Agrapresse
Le concept d'« accaparement des terres », largement employé depuis une (...)
Ramon, Mina, Jean-Marie, Francky… Ils ont perdu leurs terres et leurs proches à cause de la déforestation
30 June 2018
29 Jun 2018 | Novethic
Les États signataires des Déclarations d’Amsterdam ont accordé 5 minutes (...)
Congo-Brazzaville: une nouvelle loi foncière entre en vigueur
29 June 2018
28 Jun 2018 | RFI
La loi interdit strictement l'acquisition des terres rurales et coutumières (...)
Colombie : «Depuis l’accord de paix, la situation a empiré»
27 June 2018
27 Jun 2018 | Libération
Ramon Bedoya, 18 ans, est en France pour dénoncer les violations (...)
Okomu earmarks N80 million for HSE, decries selective attacks on the coy over RSPO
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Nigerian Observer
Okomu's Managing Director surprised about attacks directed at (...)
Dutch pension fund divests from Posco Daewoo over deforestation in Indonesia
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Mongabay
APB, the Dutch pension fund for government and education employees, (...)
Is Nordsudtimber getting into the palm oil business?
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Global Witness
A new report by Global Witness indicates that Feronia Inc (...)
Boulimie foncière à Rufisque : Les exploitants agricoles de Bud Sénégal craignent pour leur activité
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Le Quotidien
La décision du Président Macky Sall de régulariser les titres précaires (...)
VGGT: what potential to engage?
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Fern
This rapid scoping of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible (...)
Nigeria: Farmers kick over alleged land grab by Cross River, seek N500m compensation
27 June 2018
26 Jun 2018 | Guadian
The allocation of land by the Cross River government to a South African (...)
Chinese banana plantations flourish as villagers lose their land in Kachin
25 June 2018
22 Jun 2018 | Myanmar Times
In Waingmaw alone, there are more than 11,000 ha of tissue-culture (...)
Les Sages sous influence ? Le lobbying auprès du Conseil constitutionnel et du Conseil d’État
25 June 2018
25 Jun 2018 | ODM
Lutte contre le changement climatique, l’évasion fiscale ou encore (...)
Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company
22 June 2018
21 Jun 2018 | Mongabay
Indonesia’s national commission on human rights has vowed to investigate (...)
Growth Farms lease fund offers investors low-risk stake in ag
21 June 2018
19 Jun 2018 | Farm Online
Rising demand for leased farmland has convinced agricultural asset (...)
Risky business: Tenure issues main deterrent for investment
21 June 2018
20 Jun 2018 | CIFOR
At the Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium land tenure was (...)
Oil palm plantations in Amazonia inhospitable to tropical forest biodiversity: Study
21 June 2018
20 Jun 2018 | Mongabay
Study's results in the Amazon “clearly” reinforce “the notion that oil palm (...)
Phoenix looks to India to feed Africa as part of rice expansion
19 June 2018
08 Dec 2017 | Bloomberg
The company plans to spend $300 million over the next five years, (...)
S’attaquer aux causes profondes de la déforestation au Liberia
19 June 2018
18 Jun 2018 | Commodafrica
Ou $2 milliards de greenwashing ?
En Afrique, l’Eglise catholique s’engage dans le champ politique
19 June 2018
17 Jun 2018 | Le Temps
Les évêques sont intervenus en Tanzanie, au Soudan du Sud at au Mozambique (...)
Nigeria: Ayade’s Agric revolution excites S/African farmers, partner Cross River on feed mill
19 June 2018
18 Jun 2018 | News Guru
Cross River State Governor says his administration intends to establish (...)
Nigeria: Farmers urge Okomu Plc to implement and full compensation
19 June 2018
18 Jun 2018 | ITV
Some farmers in Oke Uhumwurde local government area and Owan East have called (...)
20,000 hectares set for oil palm by 2019
15 June 2018
14 Jun 2018 | Post Courier
Malaysia's Bewani Oil Palm Plantation Limited is set to complete (...)
Over 3000 Karuturi workers to know their fate tomorrow as Court of Appeal embarks on hearing case against CFC Stanbic
15 June 2018
14 Jun 2018 | XNews
The Court of Appeal will tomorrow start listening to an appeal case filed (...)
L’UE repousse la sortie de l’huile de palme à 2030
14 June 2018
14 Jun 2018 | Libération
Les Etats membres, le Parlement et la Commission européenne se sont (...)
Mauritanie: d’anciens esclaves dénoncent l’accaparement de leurs terres
14 June 2018
14 Jun 2018 | RFI
Un collectif d'associations de lutte contre l'esclavage et ses séquelles, (...)
Group wants data on extent of agri lands compromised in foreign agri-business deals
14 June 2018
13 Jun 2018 | Davao Today
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Campaign reiterates opposition to ProSavana in Mozambique
14 June 2018
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13 June 2018
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13 June 2018
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Campaign reiterates its position against Prosavana in Mozambique
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13 June 2018
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13 June 2018
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13 June 2018
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13 June 2018
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12 June 2018
09 Jun 2018 | Business Post
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12 June 2018
08 Jun 2018 | Río Negro
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12 June 2018
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12 June 2018
08 Jun 2018 | ARC 2020
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Letter addressed to the Government of Senegal, G7 members state, and the African Union
12 June 2018
11 Jun 2018 | CNCR et al.
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12 June 2018
11 Jun 2018 | Guardian
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12 June 2018
11 Jun 2018 | Blueprint
Natives of Akamkpa community in Cross River accuse Wilmar International (...)
L’échec des transactions foncières dans l’agriculture laisse des séquelles de plus en plus désastreuses et pénibles
11 June 2018
11 Jun 2018 | GRAIN
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11 June 2018
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11 June 2018
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Cameroun. Socapalm, des terres agricoles louées à prix d’ami
10 June 2018
06 Jun 2018 | L'Humanité
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10 June 2018
08 Jun 2018 | Libération
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Les bâillonnés (2/2)
10 June 2018
09 Jun 2018 | RFI
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Lettre d’interpellation adressée au gouvernement de la République du Sénégal, des pays membres du G7 et à l’Union Africaine
10 June 2018
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Failed farmland deals: a growing legacy of disaster and pain
7 June 2018
06 Jun 2018 | GRAIN
2017 went down as one of the deadliest years ever for land defenders. It (...)
Karuturi workers accuse CFC Stanbic Bank for the malpractice
7 June 2018
06 Jun 2018 | Kenyan WallSt
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7 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | The Conversation
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7 June 2018
30 May 2018 | RFA
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7 June 2018
22 Jun 2017 | HBS SE Asia
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Bollore’s Belgian friend in court
7 June 2018
06 Jun 2018 | Africa Intelligence
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Stop parading RSPO certificate, ERA charges Okomu Oil
7 June 2018
06 Jun 2018 | The Sun
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth charged the Okomu Oil (...)
The ripple effect caused by closure of Sher Karuturi Flower Farm
7 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | KBC
The lives of more than 3,000 people came to a standstill when the Karuturi (...)
En toute propriété
6 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | République togolaise
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Un projet d’accaparement de terres déguisé en promesse de développement
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Le Monde Diplo
Les paysans mozambicains font reculer l’agro-industrie
Vincent Bolloré perd un nouveau procès de presse en France
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Le Quotidien
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Les paysans varois manifestent devant le vignoble de Vincent Bolloré à la Croix-Valmer
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | France 3
Ce matin, la Confédération paysanne s'est invitée devant le domaine (...)
Occupation of Bolloré’s vineyards: land to men and women farmers!
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Confédération paysanne
Seventy farmers of the Confédération paysanne came from all (...)
Occupation des vignes de Bolloré : la terre aux paysannes et paysans !
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Confédération paysanne
Soixante-dix militant-e-s de la Confédération paysanne venus (...)
La Confédération paysanne occupe le vignoble varois du milliardaire Vincent Bolloré
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Var Matin
Plus de 70 paysans et paysannes occupent depuis mardi la propriété de (...)
Baguettes In Beijing? Chinese investors eating up French farm land
5 June 2018
05 Jun 2018 | Le Figaro
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State land grabs fuel Sudan’s crisis
5 June 2018
05 May 2018 | Mail & Guardian
About 500 farmers were left landless when the Sudanese (...)
Les bâillonnés (1/2)
5 June 2018
02 Jun 2018 | RFI
Les bâillonnés, retour sur les poursuites bâillons du groupe Bolloré pour faire (...)
Rural poor squeezed by land concessions in Mekong region: report
5 June 2018
04 Jun 2018 | Reuters
Companies acquired concessions amounting to the size of a small European (...)
Mali : Office Niger : Immobilisme total !
4 June 2018
04 Jun 2018 | Mali Actu
L’Office du Niger est victime de pratiques de corruption à ciel ouvert. (...)
« Complément d’enquête » consacré à Bolloré diffamatoire ou pas : la justice tranche mardi
4 June 2018
04 Jun 2018 | AFP
Le reportage de « Complément d’enquête » consacré à Vincent Bolloré et notamment (...)
Des militants manifestent devant l’assemblée générale du groupe Bolloré
4 June 2018
02 Jun 2018 | RFI
Vendredi 1er juin, une vingtaine de représentants d'associations françaises et (...)
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2 June 2018
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Brazilian contested land risks may decrease value of Harvard’s endowment
2 June 2018
01 Jun 2018 | The Chain
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Corruption, poursuites-baillons, conflits fonciers : le groupe Bolloré fragilisé pour son AG annuelle
1 June 2018
31 May 2018 | Attac
Le 1er juin, les actionnaires du groupe Bolloré se réuniront pour apprécier (...)
Un « risque d’accaparement des terres agricoles » en France
31 May 2018
31 May 2018 | Le Monde
En 2017, 381 000 hectares ont changé de mains en France, ce qui « prouve (...)
Australia: Chinese firm’s promises on Tasmanian dairy farm ’not legally binding’
31 May 2018
30 May 2018 | Guardian
The promises that helped a Chinese firm secure government approval for (...)
Growing resistance: The rise and fall of another Mozambique land grab
31 May 2018
30 May 2018 | GDAE
The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed (...)
Droits humains : «Les promesses non tenues» de Socfin et Bolloré
30 May 2018
29 May 2018 | Le Quottidien
Alors que les actionnaires de Socfin tiennent mercredi leur (...)
Land-grabbing and the financialization of agricultural land
30 May 2018
30 May 2018 | LeftEast
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30 May 2018
29 May 2018 | Africa Post
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30 May 2018
29 May 2018 | GRAIN, Tany, Yayasan Pusaka
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SOCFIN : bénéfices toujours en hausse… sauf pour les communautés locales
30 May 2018
29 May 2018 | Actionaid France et al
A l’occasion de l’assemblée générale qui se tiendra au (...)
SOCFIN: profits on the rise, but not for local communities
30 May 2018
29 May 2018 | Actionaid France et al
NGOs and solidarity organisations supporting the struggles (...)
L’industrialisation de l’agriculture au premier rang de l’action à venir de la BAD
26 May 2018
25 May 2018 | Commodafrica
La Banque africaine de développement lancera une plateforme (...)
Liberians plan sit-in to pressure Weah to protect land rights
24 May 2018
26 Apr 2018 | Reuters
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare (...)
La Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme contrainte d’explorer le grenier à blé ukrainien
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | Le Soir
La CEDH reconnaît à l’Ukraine le droit de mettre en place des mesures (...)
Karuturi farm’s liquidation battle set to take longer
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | Media Max
In a paid advert, the receiver managers detailed the items for sale but (...)
Land Ministry sending work group to Koh Kong
24 May 2018
21 May 2018 | Phnom Penh Post
Around 486 local families who have been embroiled in land (...)
Food scarcity imminent in Edo, ERA raises alarm
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | Tribune
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FOEN) has (...)
Major grocery supplier to Germany accused of environmental crimes in Spain, report says
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | DW
G's Espana is the Spanish subsidiary of the British G's Group, which claims to (...)
Who owns Australia’s farms? Nation’s biggest landholders of 2018
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | Weekly Times
The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, (...)
Africa’s green revolution stumbles at Congo project to solve food shortages
24 May 2018
23 May 2018 | Reuters
The African Development Bank is nevertheless accelerating a push for (...)
Un associé de Bolloré jugé en Belgique pour corruption
24 May 2018
22 May 2018 | Le Quotidien
Hubert Fabri, un associé de Vincent Bolloré dans la multinationale (...)
“There isn’t any”: Tanzania’s land myth and the brave New Alliance
23 May 2018
18 May 2018 | African Arguments
Tanzania claims to have abundant unused land to attract (...)
Proposed Chinese agriculture project, ‘very troubling’
23 May 2018
20 May 2018 | Observor
Aspiring politician Gameal Joyce says he does not understand why 4,000 (...)
Loi sur les zones économiques spéciales : les inspecteurs du domaine contestent de plus belle
22 May 2018
17 May 2018 | News Mada
Le Syndicat des inspecteurs du domaine et de la propriété foncière à (...)
Algeria cancels plan to offer farmland to foreign investors-official
22 May 2018
22 May 2018 | Reuters
The president of the republic is said to have intervened to cancel the (...)
Algérie : "Pas de concession agricole aux étrangers"
22 May 2018
19 May 2018 | L'Expression
La mesure permettant le transfert de la concession des terrains (...)
Congo Basin: The coming storm
19 May 2018
29 Apr 2018 | Earthsight
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Is Pakistani agriculture ready for CPEC?
19 May 2018
18 May 2018 | The Diplomat
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor could see Chinese produce grown (...)
Brasil: Empresa que integra fundo de Harvard comprou terras griladas na Bahia
18 May 2018
17 May 2018 | Publica
Propriedade de fundo bilionário da universidade americana explora terras (...)
Brasil: Nos baixões do Piauí, paga-se o preço do progresso do Matopiba
18 May 2018
17 May 2018 | Publica
Na região conhecida como Matopiba, empresas de agronegócio compram terras (...)
Extranjerización reciente y actual del territorio paraguayo
18 May 2018
16 May 2018 | BASE-IS
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar los principales alcances (...)
Nicoletti farming business hits the market
17 May 2018
16 May 2018 | The Land
“I’ve got strong interest from Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai and (...)
Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in grapefruit production in Mozambique
17 May 2018
16 May 2018 | Macauhub
A group of Chinese businesspeople under the umbrella of the Jiangsu (...)
Terras da Harvard sob escrutínio, em disputa por títulos no Brasil
16 May 2018
12 May 2018 | GRAIN
A Procuradoria Geral do Estado (PGE) da Bahia afirma que está investigando (...)
Papua New Guinea rice-planting deal expected this week
15 May 2018
07 Mar 2018 | Business World
The Philippines will sign this week a government-to-government (...)
Terra Firma seeks premium for "Project Ribeye" Australian farm sale
15 May 2018
15 May 2018 | Reuters
The hefty mark-up for the 5.5 million ha property could leave foreign (...)
On Piñol’s idea to rise with rice in Papua New Guinea
15 May 2018
27 Mar 2018 | Business Mirror
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister instantly offered 100,000 (...)
Korchid réfute l’appropriation par les étrangers de terres agricoles
15 May 2018
14 May 2018 | Gnet
Le ministre des domaines de l’Etat et des affaires foncières, Mabrouk Korchid, (...)
China pledges support for Mozambique’s agriculture
15 May 2018
14 May 2018 | APA
"China has chosen agriculture as the sector it should invest the most in the (...)
Chinese rice farm brings modern agriculture to Mozambican farmers
15 May 2018
14 May 2018 | Xinhua
The Wanbao Mozambique rice farm, the largest of its kind undertaken by (...)
Agric Minister seeks investment in avocado
15 May 2018
14 May 2018 | Business Ghana
Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture tells Israeli businessmen (...)
China adjusts "Go Global" agriculture program
14 May 2018
14 May 2018 | Dim Sums
China's foreign investment and cooperation in agriculture must recognize (...)
Pays tropicaux: lancement des premières directives volontaires pour la concession forestières
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 | APS
L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) a (...)
Ces Chinois qui viennent dans nos campagnes
14 May 2018
14 May 2018 | La Croix
« Les achats de terres par les Chinois sont un épiphénomène qui a servi de (...)
Doit-on lutter contre l’accaparement des terres ?
14 May 2018
14 May 2018 | La Croix
Pour Dominique Potier, député Nouvelle Gauche de Meurthe-et-Moselle, (...)
Argentina: Estadounidenses, italianos y españoles: los inversores extranjeros con más tierras en el país
12 May 2018
11 May 2018 | La Nación
Son casi tres millones de hectáreas o, por ofrecer una equivalencia, 24 (...)
Harvard said to seek sale of South American timber holdings
12 May 2018
11 May 2018 | Bloomberg
Harvard's portfolio is still vast, including farms in Australia, South (...)
Investissements étrangers chinois dans l’agriculture, quelles réalités ?
10 May 2018
09 May 2018 | Commodafrica
Les investissements de la Chine dans l’agriculture à l’étranger ont (...)
Cameroun: Expropriation et indemnisations, la presse invitée à faire bouger les lignes
10 May 2018
09 May 2018 | Koaci
Au Cameroun, les populations locales sont de plus en plus victimes (...)
Après la Guinée Bissau, nouvelle extension d’APC dans le palmier à huile au Congo
10 May 2018
09 May 2018 | Commodafrica
L'américain African Palm Corp (APC) a ajouté 3 millions d’hectares (...)
Could a U.S.–China trade war lead to a new wave of land grabs?
10 May 2018
10 May 2018 | IISD
If soybean imports from the US are disrupted China could be forced to search (...)
China’s agricultural investment abroad is rising
10 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 | USDA
China’s agricultural investment abroad grew more than tenfold in less than a (...)
African Palm Corp. signe un nouvel accord avec le Congo
9 May 2018
08 May 2018 | Boursica
Les opérations d'African Palm Corp. s'étendront désormais en Guinée-Bissau (...)
L’Algérie ouvre la concession des terres agricoles aux étrangers
9 May 2018
07 May 2018 | Agence Ecofin
Les investisseurs étrangers, particuliers ou personnes morales, (...)
African Palm Corp. signs new agreement with the Congo, adding millions of hectares of palm trees to its growing West African portfolio
9 May 2018
08 May 2018 | PRNewswire
African Palm Corp.'s operations will now extend into Guinea-Bissau and (...)
Algeria to open farming concessions to foreigners
9 May 2018
08 May 2018 | Reuters
Algeria plans to offer foreign investors concessions for farm land for (...)
Bolloré perd définitivement son premier procès en diffamation intenté à Bastamag
9 May 2018
09 May 2018 | Basta !
Après cinq ans de procédure, la Cour de cassation vient de désavouer (...)
Have $1 billion to invest? Buy agricultural land is Lord Andrew Hay’s advice
7 May 2018
04 May 2018 | Economic Times
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How a trade row may split the fortunes of two U.S. farm companies
7 May 2018
07 May 2018 | Reuters
The threat of steep tariffs on soybeans, wheat and corn from an (...)
Anxiety grips long-suffering workers as Karuturi farm assets advertised for sale
7 May 2018
07 May 2018 | The Star
More than 3,000 former workers of the troubled Karuturi flower farm in (...)
Video: Land grabbing in Angola – a growing threat
7 May 2018
07 May 2018 | LWF
A new land law was passed to protect small-scale farmers and rural (...)
Sierra Leone’s small towns learn to fight against land grabs
7 May 2018
07 May 2018 | OZY
Courts are beginning to rule in favor of the displaced communities, and (...)
Indigenous organisations outraged by Ethiopian government’s new land deal with iconic land grabber Karuturi
7 May 2018
07 May 2018 | ASO
A new report by ASO provides an assessment of the Karuturi project and the (...)
Le vote de la loi sur les ZES doit être annulé
7 May 2018
05 May 2018 | CRAAD-OI et Collectif TANY
La location de terres a les mêmes effets que la vente (...)
Accaparement de terres à Tuléar : 5000 ha volés par les Chinois ?
7 May 2018
03 May 2018 | Mada Actus
5000 ha de terres sont actuellement entre les mains d’une compagnie (...)
Colombia: ¿Por qué la Ley ZIDRES es anticampesinos?
7 May 2018
03 May 2018 | Contagio Radio
Como lamentable calificó Wilson Arias el fallo de la Corte (...)
Suite aux plaintes de Sosucam, filiale camerounaise de Somdiaa, le Cameroun suspend l’importation du sucre
4 May 2018
04 May 2018 | Agence Ecofin
C’est une victoire pour le groupe Somdiaa qui menaçait de suspendre (...)
Koh Kong villagers bitter over longstanding land dispute
4 May 2018
03 May 2018 | Phnom Penh Post
Around 400 villagers from Koh Kong province allegedly affected by (...)
RMG Concept Ltd acquires Babator Farming Company Ltd
4 May 2018
04 Jul 2017 | AgricInGhana
Babator Farming Company Ltd is a 356 ha irrigated farming company (...)
Understanding China’s foreign agriculture investments in the developing world
3 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 | Devex
China’s investment in foreign agriculture totaled $26 billion in 2016, with (...)
I.Bissala (UGTC): «Si Bolloré s’en va, ce ne sera pas la mort de l’Afrique»
3 May 2018
01 May 2018 | RFI
Vincent Bolloré affirme qu’il fait vivre quelque 30000 familles en Afrique et (...)
Zimbabwe opposition MDC ’will expel Chinese investors’
3 May 2018
02 May 2018 | BBC
Nelson Chamisa has vowed, if he wins elections due in July, to expel Chinese (...)
2017 was deadliest year on record for Colombian human rights defenders
3 May 2018
02 May 2018 | Guardian
Human rights groups are calling on the International Criminal Court to (...)
Is land speculation helping destroy Brazil’s “birthplace of waters”?
2 May 2018
01 May 2018 |
On the occasion of a new report on land speculation in the Cerrado by the (...)
Nous pouvons vivre de la forêt, pas du palmier à huile
30 April 2018
30 Apr 2018 | FPP
Une coalition de la société civile a mené une action devant le Ministère de (...)
Vincent Bolloré mis en examen
27 April 2018
26 Apr 2018 | C à vous
Tristan Waleckx et Jean-Baptiste Rivoire parlent des menaces qui pèsent (...)
French tycoon Bollore’s African assets
27 April 2018
26 Apr 2018 | ADP
Billionaire French industrialist Vincent Bollore, who is a major shareholder (...)
Harvard endowment linked to land grab in Brazil
27 April 2018
26 Apr 2018 | The Takeaway
The Harvard Management Company, which handles Harvard University's (...)
Le magnat belge du caoutchouc jugé pour corruption
26 April 2018
26 Apr 2018 | L'Echo
Alors que Vincent Bolloré était toujours en garde à vue mercredi, le procès (...)
Menace de crise alimentaire en Afrique : Dakar capitale du mouvement syndical international en décembre 2018
26 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | Dakar Actu
Alioune Ndiaye alerte sur la famine que connaissent certaines (...)
Spécialiste de l’attaque, Vincent Bolloré désormais sur la défensive
26 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | AFP
Connu pour ses stratégies offensives voire ses coups de force, l'industriel (...)
Why we earmarked 200,000 ha for oil palm plantation – Obaseki
26 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | Vanguard
“The goal for the palm oil industry is to have not less than 200,000 (...)
Mass resignations at Chinese owner of Australia’s largest dairy farm cast doubt on investment
26 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | Guardian
A mass board resignation at the Chinese firm that bought Australia’s (...)
Farmers count losses as birds destroy acres of rice farm
25 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | The Standard
The birds are said to have migrated from Dominion Farms in the (...)
Ethiopia: Oromia State accrues investments worth 5b Br
25 April 2018
25 Apr 2018 | Addis Fortune
The board of Oromia Investment Commission has approved 167 (...)
Harvard land ownership in Brazil scrutinized in title dispute
25 April 2018
24 Apr 2018 | Bloomberg
The prosecutor’s office in the state of Bahia said it’s reviewing (...)
Komenda Sugar Factory remains shut two years after inauguration
24 April 2018
09 Mar 2018 | Daily Graphic
The scheme financed by India's Exim Bank was to see the cultivation (...)
Karuturi to start afresh in Ethiopia
23 April 2018
23 Apr 2018 | The Reporter
Karuturi Agro Products PLC says it is about to recommence the (...)
Feronia au bout du tunnel en RD Congo ?
23 April 2018
21 Apr 2018 | Jeune Afrique
Longtemps en difficulté, le groupe canadien arrivé dans le pays en (...)
Brasil: Pará lidera o ranking de assassinatos por conflitos de terra
21 April 2018
17 Apr 2018 | Jornal GGN
Nestes 32 anos, o estado do Pará teve um total de 466 casos de (...)
Argentina: Advierten “desastre anunciado” por avances extranjeros para pasta de celulosa en la región
21 April 2018
19 Apr 2018 | Corrientes Hoy
El informe apunta a la extranjerización de las tierras para (...)
L’américain APC se lance dans le palmier à huile en Guinée Bissau
20 April 2018
19 Apr 2018 | Commodafrica
L'américain African Palm Corp dispose déjà de 1,5 million d'hectares en (...)
Cambodian farmers sue Thai sugar group Mitr Phol over alleged land grab
19 April 2018
02 Apr 2018 | Reuters
Farmers from Cambodia have filed a lawsuit in a Thai civil court against (...)
Ghosts in the machine
19 April 2018
18 Apr 2018 | The Gecko Project
Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of (...)
Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region
19 April 2018
18 Apr 2018 | Mongabay
Mongabay journalists report on the impacts of the rapid expansion of (...)
Farm group opposes CAFOs, foreign-owned farmland
19 April 2018
18 Apr 2018 | News Tribune
Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business (...)
Infographic: Economic land concession sugarcane plantation and sugar industry, Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia
18 April 2018
21 Sep 2017 | The Mekong Butterfly
Around 2006, Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation., Ltd. One of major (...)
Foreign citizens will not have right to own agricultural land in Armenia
18 April 2018
16 Jan 2018 | ARKA
A set of changes to Armenia’s Land Code, passed today by the parliament in (...)
Japan’s Nippon Life makes a US$92.5 million offshore farmland investment
18 April 2018
17 Apr 2018 | GAI
Tokyo-based Nippon Life Insurance Company makes its first investment in a (...)
Campaign launch: Celebrating and defending customary land
18 April 2018
17 Apr 2018 | ActNow
ACT NOW! launches a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending (...)
Terra Firma seeks premium for ’Project Ribeye’ Australian farm sale
18 April 2018
13 Apr 2018 | Reuters
With first round bids due imminently, the high expectations could leave (...)
Les citoyens étrangers n’auront pas le droit de posséder des terres agricoles en Arménie
17 April 2018
17 Apr 2018 | Armenews
Un ensemble de modifications apportées au Code foncier de l’Arménie, (...)
Argentina: La venta de Sancor decreta el fin de ciclo en la lechería
16 April 2018
15 Apr 2018 | La capital
Los asociados de Sancor aprobaron el jueves por unanimidad en una (...)
Uruguay: Firma peruana compra tierras para producir cítricos
16 April 2018
15 Apr 2018 | El País
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Malian farmers denounce land grabbing
16 April 2018
12 Apr 2018 | Ecofin
A farmers' rights organization reports on a growing trend of land (...)
Colombia: Indígenas Sikuani se oponen a ocupamiento de predios por empresa Poligrow
16 April 2018
10 Apr 2018 | Contagio Radio
La comunidad de indígenas Sikuani que habitan en el resguardo de (...)
How much land is in foreign hands?
16 April 2018
16 Apr 2018 | Times of Zambia
The Zambia Land Alliance has challenged government to make public (...)
No to ProSAVANA Letter to Japan’s Foreign Minister (河野太郎 外務大臣宛レター和訳)
15 April 2018
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He testified against Bolloré: “Of course I’m worried”
13 April 2018
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Emmanuel Elong, the farmer who came from Cameroon specifically for the (...)
Australia: Three NSW farms sold to US, Dutch investors for US$89 million
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The Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold (...)
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11 April 2018
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Laos government has authorised a Chinese firm to carry out a (...)
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11 April 2018
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El grupo colombiano le ganó en la pulseada a la empresa Productora (...)
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Investigación revela nexo entre narcotráfico, latifundistas y empresas (...)
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11 April 2018
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La cooperativa láctea SanCor aprobó por unanimidad en una asamblea (...)
Les réformes foncières en Afrique de l’Ouest doivent protéger les petits exploitants agricoles, selon un rapport de la Fao
10 April 2018
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Face au phénomène des accaparements de terres, les réformes engagées (...)
Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad, activists say
10 April 2018
10 Apr 2018 | Reuters
For the first time, plaintiffs from Cambodia have filed a class-action (...)
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10 April 2018
10 Apr 2018 | NZ Herald
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Dominion Farms property auctioned
10 April 2018
07 Apr 2018 | The Star
The once multibillion-shilling Dominion Farms in Siaya is being (...)
Al Dahra Group close to 200 million euro deal for Agricost, Romania’s largest grain producer
10 April 2018
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Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Group is close to a 200 million Euro (...)
Multinationale luxembourgeoise et droits humains : Socfin face à ses responsabilités
9 April 2018
09 Apr 2018 | Le Quotidien
Face aux critiques, Socfin s’engage à mettre en œuvre une politique de (...)
L’agrobusiness, un moyen d’expolier les paysans de leurs terres
9 April 2018
06 Apr 2018 | Senenews
« L’agrobusiness est le prétexte par lequel nos terres sont bradées avec la (...)
« Germinal sous les tropiques »
7 April 2018
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Le paysan Emmanuel Elong mantient ses accusations d' « accaparement des (...)
Oil palm project to be extended to other districts
6 April 2018
24 Mar 2018 | Observer
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RDC: Feronia et ses soutiens doivent arrêter de faire signer les cahiers de charge par la force et la violence
6 April 2018
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Récemment, FERONIA a mis en place une politique agressive à l’encontre des (...)
Govt secures Shs720b for oil palm expansion
6 April 2018
12 Mar 2018 | Daily Monitor
Since 2006, a section of conservationists have been opposed to the (...)
Burkina Faso : Un projet pour défendre les petits exploitants agricoles
6 April 2018
06 Apr 2018 | Lefaso.net
Welthungerhilfe en partenariat avec la confédération paysanne du Faso a (...)
Il a témoigné contre Bolloré : "Bien sûr que je suis inquiet"
6 April 2018
05 Apr 2018 | TéléObs
Le paysan Emmanuel Elong, venu du Cameroun pour le procès qu'a intenté le (...)
FNSEA et JA veulent que le décret Montebourg s’étende aux terres agricoles
6 April 2018
05 Apr 2018 | AFP
Les syndicats souhaitent que le gouvernement français étende au foncier (...)
Enquête en Ukraine sur un éventuel financement politique libyen de Timochenko
5 April 2018
05 Apr 2018 | Reuters
Entre 2007 et 2010, Kiev et Tripoli ont signé un arrangement permettant à (...)
"Complément d’enquête" attaqué par Bolloré: "Tout est vrai", se défend son auteur
5 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | AFP
Le ministère public a requis la relaxe pour les extraits du reportage (...)
Sosucam, filiale camerounaise de Somdiaa, annonce l’imminence de l’arrêt de ses activités du fait des importations et la contrebande du sucre
5 April 2018
05 Apr 2018 | Agence Ecofin
Sosucam, détenue à 74% par le Français Somdiaa, a une superficie (...)
Nouveau coup de pouce de la Banque mondiale au Pôle de croissance de Bagré au Burkina
5 April 2018
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Le pôle de croissance de Bagré, parc agroindustriel démarré en 2011 (...)
Calm returns to Sime Darby
4 April 2018
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Workers with the General Agriculture Workers Union of Liberia have (...)
Presco explains green energy investment, expansion in Edo State, Nigeria
4 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | Punch
“This year we intend to plant on 4,000 hectares. If we can do 100, 000 (...)
Mecenas da Amazônia, Noruega investe em frigoríficos no Brasil
4 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | IHU
Principal doador internacional do combate ao desmatamento da Amazônia (...)
Iraq says Saudi could invest in agricultural land in Anbar province
4 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | Reuters
Iraq’s trade ministry said on Wednesday a joint Iraqi-Saudi coordination (...)
Liberia’s new president must lead on land rights or risk conflict
4 April 2018
03 Apr 2018 | Reuters
Research shows that the plantation model of development has failed to (...)
Harvard envolvida com grilagem de terras no Brasil
4 April 2018
03 Apr 2018 | Projeto Colabora
Fraudes cartoriais, expulsão de trabalhadores rurais e (...)
How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm
4 April 2018
27 Mar 2018 | Mongabay
Report uncovers an elaborate and coordinated scheme In Indoensia to (...)
The weakest should not bear the risk
4 April 2018
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Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when (...)
Forcibly displaced Cambodians file historic lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer
4 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | IDI
Displaced farmers from Cambodia have filed a landmark class-action lawsuit (...)
Free at last: charges against indigenous land rights defender & former World Bank inspection panel translator dropped
4 April 2018
04 Apr 2018 | ASO
Charges against Pastor Omot Agwa, an indigenous land rights defender from the (...)
Documents forged with cricket poop used to legalize land claims in Brazil as World Bank project opens doors to land grabber
4 April 2018
02 Apr 2018 | ActionAid
During the World Bank's annual land conference. Actionaid joined with (...)
With vigor of the youth, intensify the struggle for land and life!
4 April 2018
29 Mar 2018 | #NolandNoLIfe
Joint statement endorsed by 93 international, regional and national (...)
Socfin : « Accaparement de terres » = diffamation
4 April 2018
03 Apr 2018 | Socfin
Selon le Groupe Socfin, le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris a décidé (...)
Bolloré contre France Télévisions : le paysan camerounais, ce témoin gênant
1 April 2018
01 Apr 2018 | TeleObs
Venu tout exprès du Cameroun, il sera présent, le 3 avril prochain, au (...)
L’accaparement, quelle réalité ?
30 March 2018
30 Mar 2018 | Chemin de terre
Depuis 15 ans, organisations de la société civile et médias attirent (...)
Poursuites-bâillons : Sherpa, ReAct, Mediapart, Le Point et L’Obs relaxés suite à la plainte en diffamation de filiales du groupe Bolloré
30 March 2018
29 Mar 2018 | Sherpa
Cette décision est importante en ce qu’elle réaffirme l’actualité des (...)
Vote de protestation contre l’accaparement des terres de SOCFIN en Sierra Leone
30 March 2018
30 Mar 2018 | FIAN Belgium
Un candidat indépendant, défendant les droits des communautés locales (...)
La holding luxembourgeoise Socfin perd son procès contre trois médias et deux ONG
29 March 2018
29 Mar 2018 | AFP
Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris a relaxé jeudi trois médias et deux ONG (...)
Mali : 4ème Edition « Village sans terre » : La CMAT à l’avant-garde de la protection des terres
29 March 2018
29 Mar 2018 | Mali Actu
Ségou a abrité du 26 au 27 mars 2018 la 4ème édition de l’espace « Village (...)
Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts
29 March 2018
28 Mar 2018 | Mongabay
Investigation uncovers how Harvard University's endowment is involved in (...)
Avec le retrait d’Olam, Wilmar est seul à bord de l’ivoirien SIFCA
28 March 2018
28 Mar 2018 | Commodafrica
Olam se retire du secteur des oléagineux en Côte d’Ivoire mais compte (...)
Mali : Des villageois décident de ne plus consommer de la pomme de terre
28 March 2018
28 Mar 2018 | Maliactu
Les populations des villages de Sahou et de Sanamandougou, dans la région (...)
Interpellation de l’industrie française de la viande : les impacts dramatiques de la culture du soja en Amérique latine
28 March 2018
28 Mar 2018 | Sherpa
Une nouvelle enquête internationale révèle que la production mondiale de (...)
Tristan Waleckx, poursuivi pour une enquête sur Bolloré
28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | France Info
"Je ne connais pas de journaliste qui ait été dans ses plantations au (...)
Colombia: ZIDRES: a la sombra de la palma africana
28 March 2018
24 Mar 2018 | Colombia Plural
La industria de la palma africana sigue siendo una amenaza para (...)
Argentina: Lewis el amigo de Macri investigado por fraude
28 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | El Destape
El empresario británico es investigado en la Justicia por la "compra" (...)
¡Estamos relanzando farmlandgrab.org!
28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | GRAIN
Estamos haciendo un "lavado de cara" de Farmlandgrab.org. Vamos a renovar (...)
Nous renouvelons farmlandgrab.org !
28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | GRAIN
Farmlandgrab.org se fait un lifting. Nous allons rafraîchir l’aspect de son (...)
We’re revamping!
28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | GRAIN
Farmlandgrab.org is getting a facelift. We are refreshing the design of the (...)
Kenya: Win for Siaya residents as county resolves to allocate Yala swamp
28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | The Star
The department of lands in Siaya County has recommended that a portion (...)
Reportage au Cameroun: Bolloré demande 50 millions d’euros à France Télévisions
27 March 2018
26 Mar 2018 | Le Figaro
Le groupe public a qualifié les procès intentés par le Groupe Bolloré de (...)
Mozambique: Another Norfund fiasco as Matanuska goes bust
27 March 2018
26 Mar 2018 | Mozambique News
The banana plantation in Monapo, Nampula, that was supposed to be (...)
Investment to transform cassava as a growth industry
27 March 2018
27 Mar 2018 | Khmer Times
Green Leader Holdings Group, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, (...)
Bolloré / France 2 : le procès à 50 millions d’euros
26 March 2018
26 Mar 2018 | France Inter
Aujourd'hui se tient au Tribunal de Commerce de Paris l'audience du (...)
O programa de terras do Banco Mundial no Estado do Piauí, Brasil, é uma licença para a grilagem de terras
24 March 2018
21 Mar 2018 | Sem Cerrado
As comunidades locais, incluindo comunidades de quilombolas (...)
Colombia: Bienvenidos a Carimagua
24 March 2018
20 Mar 2018 | La Silla Vacía
Una constante respecto a la propuesta de 2017 es la inclusión de (...)
GLV n’a pas respecté les normes RSPO en matière de FPIC
23 March 2018
20 Mar 2018 | FPP
L’organe de la Table ronde pour une huile de palme durable chargé de recevoir (...)
Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase
23 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | Reuters
The fact that fewer new investments are being publicly recorded does not (...)
Women short-changed on commercial land deals in Africa - report
23 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | Reuters
Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are (...)
Tempête annoncée
23 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | Earthsight
Comment secret et collusion dans l’agriculture industrielle sont (...)
Contre l’accaparement de terres de KORASSE
23 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | Kolda News
Les populations des 14 villages riverains exigent l’annulation de la (...)
The oil palm giant`s troubles
23 March 2018
22 Mar 2018 | Tempo
Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local (...)
Peasants of the world, intensity our struggle for land and life!
23 March 2018
23 Mar 2018 | APC
“Day of the Landless” annual commemoration lead by Asian Peasant Coalition (...)
Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’
22 March 2018
22 Mar 2018 | Mongabay
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid (...)
The current World Bank’s land titling program in northeastern Brazil |