Le pape se dit préoccupé par les paysans arrachés de leurs terres, pour d’autres raisons que la guerre ou les désastres naturels : accaparement des terres par quelques-uns, la déforestation, l’appropriation de l’eau, usage de pesticides inappropriés…

Realizaron la denuncia al Ministerio Público y aseguran que pueden verse afectadas unas 15 mil hectáreas en el departamento de Alto Paraguay.

After a painstaking two-year negotiation process, the Principles lack the power to change the status quo, whereby corporate profit trumps human rights and the environment.

Conference issues a declaration and resolves to form an Africa Coalition Against Land Grabs (ACALG)

Land grabbing is done with limited (if any) consultation of communities, limited (if any) compensation, and lack of regard for environmental sustainability and equitable access to, or control over, natural resources.

This publication draws on the work undertaken by members of the ‘Land Tenure and Development’ Technical Committee set up by French Agency for Development (AFD).

Même si les communautés congolaises peuvent obtenir gratuitement et perpétuellement des concessions forestières, elles ne sont pas à l’abri de l’accaparement des terres.

Australia's Trade Minister Andrew Robb has engaged in a fiery exchange with controversial radio broadcaster Alan Jones over foreign investment in agriculture.

This story from Ghana’s Volta Region is a warning to landowners in Africa and irresponsible African leaders who are carelessly mortgaging future generations’ inheritance during this global rush for land in Africa.

In an analysis of almost 73,000 concessions in eight tropical forested countries, more than 93 percent of these developments were found to involve land inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Over 55 million hectares of land in Africa have been “grabbed” since 2000, according to research presented at a conference on Wednesday.

L'alliance des paysans monte à Paris mais déplore l'absence d'un représentant de Socfin, basée au Luxembourg.

Les représentants africains et cambodgiens sont venus demander au groupe Bolloré et à la Socfin de rétrocéder des terres et de stopper les expansions foncières.

Membre de la Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes du Mali, Charlotte Zama appelle à l’aide du Pape François et du Vatican pour arrêter l'accaparement des terres.

The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lease as much as 640,000 square kilometers of farmland, or more than one-quarter of the central African nation.