La Banque mondiale vient de publier un rapport chiffrant à 4,5 milliards de dollars l'effort financier qui doit être fait pour accélérer le processus de sécurisation foncière en Afrique sub-saharienne.

Miami-based company's investment deal includes the acquisition of farmland and establishment of private farms. Similar deal signed the previous week with Ghana.

Among the estimated 3.7 million workers in the industry are thousands of child laborers and workers who face dangerous and abusive conditions. Debt bondage is common, and traffickers who prey on victims face few, if any, sanctions from business or government officials.

Frameworks that emphasize procedural safeguards to protect land users’ rights are ineffective at contesting the power dynamics at play in land transactions.

Chinese meat firms are looking abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors.

Yesterday the board of Bonsucro, a responsible sugar initiative, announced its decision to suspend Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) over complaints that the UK sugar giant buys from a plantation in Koh Kong, Cambodia, on land stolen from local villagers.

Two new reports from the Oakland Institute show how Western development assistance is supporting forced evictions and massive violations of human rights in Ethiopia.

Land “grabbing” in Africa has become a polarizing issue, says Lorenzo Cotula, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in his new book, The Great African Land Grab?

Myanmar's government has entered into a major development agreement with a consortium of Japanese companies to build tech, food and textile factories. But to make room, some farmers are being evicted and losing their livelihood.

La vraie « réforme foncière » que le plan secret de Ouattara semble viser pourrait avoir pour conséquence de faire des attributions de certificats fonciers qui seront assurément contestées demain

Black River Asset Management, owned by food giant Cargill, is targeting $400m for its 2nd ag-focused investment fund. So far, the bulk of the financing has come from a US teachers' pension fund.

Founder of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights says land grabbing is the worst problem facing Cambodians.