En las dos últimas décadas este "acaparamiento, por la fuerza, ha arrebatado a sus propietarios legítimos unos 6,6 millones de hectáreas de cultivos" en Colombia, informó Stèphane Compère, en un encuentro con la prensa.

En Colombia, “la empresa italiana Poligrou tiene en Maripán en este momento 19.000 hectáreas dedicadas a la palma aceitera. Una extensión tan grande como Manhattan. Su meta es tener 60.000 hectáreas”

Some analysts worry that family farms are under increasing pressure from speculators, as prices for land rise due to a growing world population.

Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.

FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"

New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.

PAN Asia Pacific says the principles on agricultural investment are self-contradicting and fail in promoting the human right to food, land and resources.

Une joint-venture indo-israélienne spécialisée dans l'huile de palme vient de bénéficier d'une incroyable exemption fiscale de la part du pouvoir ivoirien.

Pendant cinq jours, la capitale sénégalaise sera le lieu de pèlerinage des acteurs du mouvement social africain.

The ruling Frelimo party has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice.

Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".

Ce rapport d'Actionaid analyse les investissements de l’entreprise sénégalo-italienne à Fanaye et Ndiael ces quatre dernières années