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Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains vulnerable to land grabs from governments and corporations.

La Via Campesina denounces the International Land Coalition for calling for mitigating the negative effects of landgrabbing, rather than insisting that landgrabbing be stopped.

Après des années de campagnes, il est temps de s’interroger sur les résultats acquis : la mobilisation des ONG a-t-elle réellement fait reculer les expropriations de terre ?

Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.

Africa is the main target for “land grabs” by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released June 10.

The Land Matrix partnership today launches its thoroughly updated dataset which allows tracking of large scale land acquisitions, from negotiation to implementation.

Occidente y los países árabes son los que más tierras compran en los países menos desarrollados, según un nuevo estudio.

La semana pasada se celebró en la Antigua el foro global por la Tierra. Gobernanza territorial inclusiva y sostenible para la seguridad alimentaria: compartiendo lecciones de todo el mundo, organizado por la Coalición Internacional por la Tierra.

With the largely self-evident agreement that land grabbing is wrong and all efforts should be made to prevent it, debate and effort can focus more on (i) how to prevent land grabbing, and (ii) how to enable forms of land-based investments that actually bring real benefit.

The continuous hyping of large and unverified figures does a disservice to the important issues that are at stake.

Entretien avec le Sénégalais Madiodio Niasse qui dirige l’International Land Coalition, une sorte d’observatoire qui traque les transactions foncières, sise à Rome.

“Land grabbing in Tanzania doesn't exist,” insists the executive director of the Tanzania Horticultural Association Ms Jacquiline Mkindi