Tension is brewing in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State as Tiv farmers have issued a stern warning to Governor Abdullahi Sule over alleged forceful seizure of their ancestral farmlands by the state government for a large-scale rice farm.

Ahead of the World Bank’s 2025 Land Conference starting on May 5th in Washington D.C., a new Oakland Institute report exposes how the financial institution is using the pretext of climate crisis to push a global land “reform” agenda that favors corporate interests at the expense of people and the planet.

Le thème du Vème sommet de la Commission de l’Océan Indien était “Sécurité et souveraineté alimentaire : Pour le développement du marché de l’Indianocéanie”. Certaines décisions prises font craindre le pire, en particulier une nouvelle forme cachée d’accaparement de terres.

Le premier forum des Jeunes Africains sur le Foncier a eu lieu en Côte d'Ivoire du 24 au 26 avril 2025 pour répondre à l’insécurité foncière qui pèse sur les terres paysannes en Afrique.

Le 1er Forum des Jeunes Africains sur le Foncier, organisé par les JVE-Côte d'Ivoire, a permis d’explorer la question de la résilience pour les communautés vulnérables, le changement climatique, l’extractivisme et la pression foncière.

Cryptocurrency company Tether announces the acquisition of a 70% controlling stake in Adecoagro S.A. , a farming company that owns over 210,000 hectares in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Governor Alex Otti assures a delegation of an Israeli based agricultural investor that his government can provide land, adding that the provision of land could be the government’s own equity to the investment.

Corporate-backed farming groups from North America and the UK have emerged as key players in the nation’s farmland market in the past year.

The first Young Africans' Forum on Land was held in in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire to address concerns about the lack of land security for small farmers in Africa.

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Ley recien aprobada em Perú promueve la formalización de predios individuales superpuestos en territorios comunales ocupados entre 2004 y 2015, abriendo paso al despojo sistemático de tierras ancestrales y debilitando la cohesión social de más de 2,000 comunidades campesinas. Campesinos exigen la inconstitucionalidad de la Ley.

Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation company backed by Vale, Marfrig, Suzano, Santander Brasil, Itaú, and Rabobank, has launched its first major project: planting over 2 million trees across 1,200 hectares of Atlantic rainforest in Bahia state.