L’Egypte voit la ruée étrangère vers les terres agricoles en Afrique comme une menace pour ses ressources en eau.

Africa is white hot with minerals and land deals in what could be the second scramble for Africa.

O reino das fazendas corporativas está sendo conhecido por Mapitoba, acrônimo extraído das duas primeiras letras de Maranhão, Piauí, Tocantins e Bahia.

Camponeses e camponesas da UNAC pretendemos reforçar a atenção a dar em relação ao Prosavana e definição de estratégias para o seu enfrentamento, apresentando alternativas às políticas agrárias que tem vindo a ser aprovadas, com quase total ausência e exclusão de camponeses e camponesas de todo o Pais.

El Poder Ejecutivo hizo suyo un proyecto de ley elaborado por legisladores del Frente Amplio. Se busca limitar la tierra en manos de extranjeros.

El secretario de Presidencia, Homero Guerrero, informó que el gobierno cruzará información con los organismos de registros de tierras, con el fin de saber que porcentaje está en manos de uruguayos y de extranjeros.

Aprodev commissioned research to investigate the involvement of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in land grabs. The evidence shows that European DFIs are indeed involved in some land grabs, and there are real risks of being complicit in others in the future.

Het Maleisische palmoliebedrijf Wilmar is wereldwijd op grote schaal betrokken bij landroof, milieuovertredingen en schending van nationale wetten bij palmolieprojecten.

La COI est bien déterminée à tout faire pour que ce projet passe de la phase de préparation à celle d’activation.

Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report.

Rubber Barons shows how vast amounts of land have been acquired for rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos by two of Vietnam's biggest largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG).

"La cession des terres agricoles tunisiennes aux étrangers représente un danger pour la souveraineté de l'Etat et une ingérence dans ses affaires," estime Mohamed Mabrouk de l'Institut tunisien des études stratégiques

Los manifestantes exigen que se pare "la entrega de la tierra y los bienes naturales del país a la inversión extranjera que saquea nuestras riquezas, al igual que lo hacen en el resto de nuestro continente y del mundo".

Everywhere in Africa the story is more or less the same: communal rights are being grossly interfered with, farming systems upturned, livelihoods decimated, and water use and environments changed in ways which are dubiously sustainable.

Liberia's silent land war has now become a war of words and placards with tension brewing daily either between individuals and families or companies and tribes or clans.