Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.

This article documents some of the ProSAVANA programme’s practices during its planning phase and analyses its limitations in terms of preventing the inherent risks of contract farming schemes.

Of the 42 Special Agricultural Business Leases examined only four secured consent of local landowners and had viable agricultural projects.

Large-scale agricultural projects in Cambodia as well as in parts Africa have driven small-holder farmers into wage labour out of distress.

UK-based Agriterra, which controls 21,000 ha of farmland in Africa, provides an update on its 3,200 ha cocoa plantation in Sierra Leone.

Phatisa has already invested $84 million into nine projects in seven African countries, ranging from palm oil in Sierra Leone and the DRC, to poultry farming in Zambia.

Au Cambodge, les compagnies sucrières dépossèdent des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants de leurs terres. Demandons à Karel de Gucht, Commissaire européen au commerce, de faire cesser ce scandale !

New WRM video based on interviews with people from communities in Africa affected by the expansion of oil palm plantations.

The US's Millennium Challenge Corporation says it is helping Burkina Faso to improve its land ownership legislation to protect rural land owners from unfair deals that have seen wealthy buyers acquire vast tracts of land.

Brazil has authorized the sale of farmland to foreigners for the first time since 2010, when the country's attorney general imposed limits on foreign land control in one of the world's top producers of agricultural commodities.

The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails

Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de paraître