Ethiopia announced on Friday plans to lease 100,000 hectares of land both to local and foreign investors, despite recent reports that foreign investors were grabbing large chunks of land.

Olam International, an India-based multinational agribusiness company, is developing an outgrower scheme on a giant 20-year, 850,000 hectare concession it has secured not far from the port of Beira, Mozambique.

Three MoUs on investment in mineral exploration and sugar cane plantation in Cambodia were signed last weekend in China’s Guangxi province at the Forum on Potential Investment and Business Opportunities in Cambodia.

The Liberian government has leased nearly 6 per cent of Liberia’s total land mass to palm-oil companies. More than a million people live on those lands, and 150,000 will be affected in the first five years of the plantations.

We are witnessing a second scramble for Africa and other poor countries by rich nations and agribusinesses to acquire land for agricultural and biofuel purposes.

Today in the lead up to World Habitat Day on October 1st Witness are proud to announce a new video People Before Profit – bringing communities across the world together to tell the global story of forced evictions.

Les organisations de la société civile partagent avec les députés leurs inquiétudes à propos du code foncier et domanial en République du Bénin, un document tant attendu pour mettre fin aux conflits fonciers et à l’accaparement massif des terres

Video by La Via Campesina

Olam's acquisition includes five estates on 5,866 hectares of land in northern Zambia's Kasama district.

Ethiopia Sugar Corp. said it’s signed agreements with state-owned China Development Bank Corp. for $500 million in loans to build two refineries, part of a plan to boost output of the sweetener almost tenfold by 2025.

Emission consacrée aux mutations de la propriété foncière dans la mondialisation. Elles signalent un nouveau type de dépendance, voire de domination dans une situation à bien des égards néo-coloniale.

"The project has been terminated due to the failure of T4M inability to fulfill their side of the agreement"