C’est un long et douloureux conflit qui a pris fin mercredi 29 janvier 2014, avec la signature d’un protocole d’accord entre la société Senhuile et les populations de Ngnith et de Ronkh, au Sénégal.

Des activistes camerounais au tribunal pour protestation pacifique contre un accapareur de terres de Wall Street

Write to Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its intimidation of Nasako Besingi and other defenders of local communities and forests.

An agro-industry project jointly financed by capital from Italy, the US and Senegal has aroused resistance from the rural communities living in Gnith in Senegal.

Fakfak (on the Southern Coast of West Papua Province), has plans to start a program to develop integrated agribusiness similar to MIFEE in Merauke.

As the economy thrives, filmmakers Veronique Mauduy and Romain Pelleray examine the plight of Ethiopians forced from their land to make way for foreign investors.

The arrangement will provide a government-to-government framework to encourage commercial partnerships between New Zealand and Ethiopian agricultural interests.

The investments, equivalent to almost a fifth of the size of the economy, will pump cash into fisheries, agriculture, livestock, health and roads while funding imports from Arab countries to the tune of $145 million.

Marubeni plans to plant sugar cane on an area of 75,000 hectares and to construct a factory to transform the sugar cane into sugar and ethanol.

A Cambodian minority group in northern Preah Vihear province is calling for the cancelation of two licenses for Chinese companies accused of grabbing thousands of hectares of land.

Bulgaria's top court overturned a ban on selling arable land to investors from the European Union, averting a legal clash with Brussels and resolving a dilemma for the country's coalition government.

Le groupe singapourien Olam va vendre une partie de ses actifs forestiers au Gabon, d'un montant de $18 millions, à un groupe d'investisseurs chinois.

On croyait ce phénomène réservé aux pays pauvres ou émergents. Mais voilà qu'en France même, certains s'alarment.

Ces projets d’investisseurs sont toujours présentés aux populations rurales comme des projets de développement alors qu’ils ont des conséquences irrémédiables sur leur accès à la terre et sur leur environnement, détruisent les fondements de leurs sources de revenus et de leur organisation sociale.

The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.