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Farmers Hervé Coupeau (in red) and Arnaud Morin (in black) in front of the first wheat farm sold to Chinese buyers at Vendoeuvres, central France. (Photo: John Laurenson/Marketplace)
A Lao villager walks by bulldozers belonging to a Chinese-backed company that is clearing land to build cattle farms in Champhone district of Savannakhet province in southern Laos, June 2016. (Photo: RFA)
Pour Carlos Etakore, président des indiens Ayoreo au Paraguay, « les étrangers ont déjà détruit leurs propres terre. Maintenant ils détruisent la nôtre. »
Violeta Mercado is one of the victims in the recent killing of four farmers in a military reservation in the Philippines. Photo credit: Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)
Violeta Mercado is one of the victims in the recent killing of four farmers in a military reservation in the Philippines. Photo credit: Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)
Ron Greentree - Australia's largest wheat farmer has sold part of his farm for as much as $55 million to US pension fund manager TIAA. (Photo: PAUL MATHEWS)
Map of Ndiaël Reserve. Senhuile agriculture zones are lined in black, including in the protected Ramsar Wetlands (orange), where agribusiness activities are not allowed. Credit: Ardo Sow / Ndiaël Collective.
The Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) of Malawi seeks the local people’s occupation of all idle tea estates land, as well as reparations for the years since 1914 that estates owners occupied the lands and engaged in bonded labour practices.
Last month people in Yala Swamp in Kenya won a court decision against Dominion Farms, a company from the United States, which has been grabbing their land since 2003.
The boundary between intact forest and land already cleared for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. (Photo: Yudhi Mahendra/Mighty)
"Local businesses were affected that have a link with the government," says Loui Hooijman, Director of Esmeralda Farms (above), a Dutch company that had its flower farms burned down in protests to the north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week.
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River, Nigeria and Yongsheng Cao, Chairman of Chinese firm Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Limited.
Yongsheng Cao, président de la Wuhan Longfecund, a indiqué que sa compagnie injecterait 8 millions de $ dans le projet.
Industrial-scale oil palm plantation on the road to Edea, Cameroon. (Photo: Flore de Preneuf/PROFOR)
The EU financed project will "secure land tenure rights for local communities in areas surrounding commercial farms," says EU Ambassador to Ethiopia, Chantal Hebberecht.
A plantation where an inedible crop called jatropha is grown to produce biofuels. The biofuel company has acquired 19,753 acres of villagers' land in Kisarawe, Tanzania (Photo: Tom Pietrasik/ActionAid)
A palm oil plantation in Sinoe County, Liberia, is shown. Palm oil has been a flashpoint in Liberia, with the government giving international corporations license to establish industrial plantations and to handle the local communities as they see fit. (Photo: Dan Klotz / Burness)
