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Employees operate harvesting machinery on the "Armada" farming project run by Dongning Huaxin Group near the far eastern Russian town of Ussuriysk November 13, 2013. (Photo: REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev)

The rural community of Thiamene is fighting against the Senhuile agriculture project [Stefano Liberti/Al Jazeera]

Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)

Land clearing at an oil palm concession in Liberia. (Photo: Marco Di Lauro)

Un paysan sénégalais de Keur Médoune (photo de Passions Sud)

Source : Sylvain Fontan, “L'intérêt grandissant pour les surfaces agricoles mondiales disponibles”, analyse publiée sur «leconomiste.eu» le 17/12/2013.

Pépinière de SOCFIN dans la chefferie de Malen (photo par Joan Baxter)

Farmers in Latvia are reporting incidents with foreign entities that offer farmers highly complex land rental agreements where, should farmers fail to meet certain contractual provisions, they can lose their lands (Photo: Global Post).

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is buying a portfolio of Saskatchewan farms, with the $128-million purchase of Assiniboia Farmland LP.

The Egyptian firm Citadel Capital is buying land, rights to water and precious metals.

Bloomber reports that a Colombian government plan to help investors from Cargill Inc. to airline magnate German Efromovich develop more land for crops was stopped in its tracks days by the country’s largest rebel group, meeting with officials for peace talks 1,400 miles away in Havana. (Photo: Alejandra Parra/Bloomberg)

Existing oil palm plantations in Cross River State, Nigeria that are part of a concession acquired by the Wilmar International (Photo: GRAIN).

Après une visite de terrain à Samnadougou (office du Niger), San et à Sansanding, la Convergence malienne contre l’accaparement des terres (CMAT), en partenariat avec l’Organisationn internationale pour le droit à l’alimentation (FIANA), a animé, jeudi dernier, une conférence de presse au siège de la Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes (CNOP), à Kalaban-Coura-Sud.

The signing of the agreement between the WA Government and the Kimberley Agricultural Company. (Photo: ABC News/Rebecca Carmody)

Harvesting rice in Champassak, Laos (photo by Stanislas Fradelizi)

Wilmar oil palm nursery, Cross River State, Nigeria

Linus Orok (left) and Patrick Chi of Ekong Anaku village, Nigeria

Les négociations entre la Chine et l'Ukraine à Pékin (Reuters/ Wang Zhao/Pool)

Women rice farmers association, Mozambique. (Photo courtesy of IFDC, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifdcphotography/4603821887/in/photostream/)
Women rice farmers association, Mozambique. (Photo courtesy of IFDC, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifdcphotography/4603821887/in/photostream/) - See more at: http://www.bilaterals.org/?mozambique-and-japan-pen#sthash.9BTxhUUF.dpuf