Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.

Des sociétés telles que le français Grands Domaines du Sénégal, qui exploite plus de 300 hectares, s'installent dans le nord du Sénégal pour produire des fruits et légumes pour les marchés européens.

Pension fund manager TIAA-CREF's farmland assets grew by 56% to $7.8 billion in committed assets.

AgroGeneration, producteur de céréales et oléagineux en Ukraine, vient de renouveler son crédit de campagne pour un montant maximum de 35 M USD.

Dans certains districts de la province de Bokéo de très nombreux paysans laotiens louent leurs terres à des Chinois qui établissent des plantations de bananiers s’étalant sur plusieurs milliers d’hectares.

Com a ocupação, o MST busca denunciar “a estrangeirização das terras brasileiras, que estão sendo vendidas para proprietários estrangeiros, colocando assim em risco a soberania nacional”.

Les sociétés de plantations de palmiers à huile s’intéressent désormais à l’archipel des Moluques et en particulier à la Papouasie occidentale, une région déchirée par les conflits.

Ce bulletin de WRM vise à dénoncer l’expansion des plantations de palmiers à huile et à divulguer certains effets négatifs qu’elle a sur les peuples des forêts et sur leurs territoires.

Entretien avec Jean-François Mombia du RIAO sur les plantations de palmiers à huile de la société canadienne Feronia.

The oil palm industry’s rapid growth in West Papua, Indonesia is having serious adverse effects on its indigenous population.

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.

Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.

DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of the vertically integrated Ayenouan palm oil project in Côte d'Ivoire, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in West Ghana.