“We are not against land investments, but the land should not be given out to foreigners. Citizens should reserve the right to access it,” says Mr Bernard Baha of ActionAid in Tanzania.

Burma has become the “latest flashpoint in an alarming trend” of global land grabs, which continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the world, two new reports have warned.

The continuous hyping of large and unverified figures does a disservice to the important issues that are at stake.

‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.

Retomó impulso la coordinación entre legisladores del Frente Amplio y el Ejecutivo para impulsar una iniciativa que procure frenar la extranjerización y concentración de la tierra.

Le groupe Bolloré a tenu à réagir à l’article intitulé « Une filiale de Bolloré épinglée pour sa gestion des terres en Afrique », dans lequel une de ses filiales est mise en cause.

Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government's selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports.

Speakers to include reps from IFC, Phatisa, AAF, Ruchi Soya, Vita Rice, Swiss Re, ECOWAS, and the Government of Ghana.

He said the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority and Finance Ministry would sign agreements with foreign countries to ensure investment security of Saudis.

Report prepared for DFID considers the impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on local food insecurity and malnutrition levels.

Il n’y a pas de phénomène d’accaparement des terres agricoles au Québec, conclut l’étude du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO)

Con motivo del día internacional contra el acaparamiento de tierras, Oxfam publica hoy un nuevo informe de análisis en el que advierte de que los países con los Gobiernos más frágiles del mundo están en el punto de mira de los inversores en tierras.