It is critical for farmers and advocates of land rights as well as the general public to understand how and why land grabbing is happening to make a more effective, strategic campaigning to address and stop it.
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has bought a 20 per cent stake in global-agri business Olam through two transactions as the companies launch a strategic partnership.
Sang-Liang Technology Development Centre and Nigeria's Raw Materials Research and Development Council will partner with the Niger state government for land provision for the pilot project.
A video discussing large scale land acquisitions in Zambia, and the risks they pose to those who derive their livelihoods from the land.
Réponse de Senhuile à l’invitation de Business & Human Rights Resource Centre relative au rapport sur l’accaparement de terre au Sénégal
China has confirmed the continuation of a $1.2 billion rubber and rice investment deal in Sierra Leone, covering 135,000 hectares, that was signed in 2012.
A leader of a group trying to seize a 1,400-rai oil palm plantation run by Thai Pattana Co, a joint operation of a foreign investor and his Thai business partner, was shot dead while leaving the farm on motorcycle.
Cattle ranching company Beira Boi Limitada seeks to eventually establish a cashew plantation on 500 hectares to ensure a supply of raw material to feed a nut processing facility in Sofala Province.
Map Of Agriculture says it is well positioned to serve the comparative farming system benchmarking needs of farmland investors.
La privatisation des terres au profit des industriels majoritairement étrangers a des conséquences désastreuses : expulsion des paysans réduits à la mendicité pour vivre, exclusion, création d’une classe ouvrière rurale.
PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ).
As climate change, population growth and environmental damage shrink the amount of arable land on the planet, wealthier countries and corporations look to developing countries for land.
Un nuevo informe de la Unión Nacional de Campesinos de Mozambique (UNAC) y de GRAIN muestra que hay una ofensiva colonial por apoderarse de las tierras agrícolas de África.
