La condamnation de Marc Ona Essangui, leader de la société civile gabonaise, a une peine de six mois de prison avec sursis et au paiement d’une amende de 5 millions de francs cfa a suscité une levée de boucliers hors des frontières gabonaises.

Tras 10 largos años de pelea, un juez ugandés finalmente se ha pronunciado dando la razón a 400 familias campesinas a quienes echaron, pegaron y arrebataron sus tierras para cederlas a una multinacional alemana de café, Neuman Kaffee Gruppe.

Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.

As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.

Depuis le début des années 2000, un nouveau phénomène mobilise l’attention des chercheurs et des ONG : les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle, par des multinationales, des fonds de pension, des banques ou des Etats. Clara Jamart, Stefano Liberti et Sébastien Abis sur RFI.

"Si la tendance continue en dix ans aucune terre arable ne sera disponible au Sénégal", selon Alpha Ba, membre du Groupe d’études et de recherches genre et sociétés de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis.

Indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.

President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases

The "land grabbing" in Africa and elsewhere often triggers conflict, an underreported financial risk, says Samuel Nguiffo

Se você quiser encontrar um brasileiro com motivos para estar feliz com a última década, e otimista quanto ao futuro, procure entre os proprietários de terras. Entre 2003 e 2012, o preço médio do hectare no Brasil pulou de R$ 2.280 para R$ 7.470. Foi um crescimento de 227%, o dobro da inflação registrada no mesmo período.

Prime Minister John Key has told Chinese officials that foreign ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in New Zealand.

Soldiers and police illegally evict farmers who have been recovering lands illegally occupied by a subsidiary of SABMiller.

The acquisition takes to 422,000 hectares the area which Kernel controls in the Ukraine – an area bigger than Luxembourg or most UK counties.

El Banco Mundial propone cambios en la propiedad de la tierra y aumentar la productividad de los predios.

Segundo estimativas da organização Oxfam, que lançou um relatório em 2011 e mantém uma campanha dedicada a tratar publicamente do tema, grandes negócios de comércio de terras realizados desde 2000 envolveram 227 milhões de hectares, mais que o dobro de toda a área.