• La Hongrie s'opposera à l'achat de terres agricoles par des étrangers
    • AFP
    • 14 October 2012

    Le Premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban a annoncé qu'une nouvelle législation entrerait bientôt en vigueur visant à empêcher les étrangers d'acheter des terres agricoles en Hongrie.

  • PNG land scandal
    • ABC
    • 14 October 2012

    Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.

  • São Tomé & Príncipe: Deforestation threatens biodiversity
    • Global Voices
    • 13 October 2012

    The island's biodiversity threatened by plans to expand a palm oil plantation from 610 ha to 5,000 ha, through a 2009 deal signed with the Belgian company Socfinco.

  • Uruguay. Varios grupos marcharon contra la extranjerización de la tierra
    • El Observador
    • 13 October 2012

    La tercera marcha nacional en defensa de la tierra y los bienes naturales, compuesta por unas 2000 personas, partió a la hora 17 desde el obelisco y llegó hasta la Torre Ejecutiva, en Plaza Independencia, donde muchos entonaron la consigna de la tarde: “No se vende, la tierra se defiende”.

  • "L'argent public ne doit pas financer l'accaparement des terres"
    • APIC
    • 12 October 2012

    Les organisations chrétiennes d’entraide Action de Carême et Pain pour le Prochain dénoncent le financement des accaparements de terres dans le monde par l’argent public.

  • Ukraine, Japan collaborate on farmland investments, corn growing, exports
    • eFeedLink
    • 12 October 2012

    Japan wants to grow corn on Ukraine's black earth and import it while Ukraine suggests that Japan, as a "hi-tech country", invest in Ukrainian farmland.

  • Land-grabbing linked with hunger
    • IRIN
    • 12 October 2012

    Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.

  • «When development cooperation becomes land grabbing»
    • PPP
    • 12 October 2012

    Cette étude analyse le rôle des banques internationales de développement dans l’acquisition de grandes surfaces agricoles, tant en Afrique et en Asie qu’en Amérique latine. (This report analyses the role of development finance institutions in large scale land acquisitions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.)

  • CRECE. Pide al Banco Mundial que detenga el acaparamiento de tierras
    • CRECE
    • 12 October 2012

    Las grandes operaciones de compraventa de tierras financiadas por instituciones como el Banco Mundial obligan a las personas a abandonar sus hogares, sus trabajos y sus medios de vida.

  • México: Intentan extranjeros comprar terrenos en comunidades mayas en Solidaridad
    • SIPSE
    • 12 October 2012

    Las poblaciones donde más han llegado a ofrecer dinero a cambio de extensiones de tierra son Dzulá y Xpujil.

  • Laguna Lake fishers at the mercy of 'development'
    • PAN AP
    • 12 October 2012

    Today, Laguna Lake is considered by many fisherfolks as a dying lake. Its ecosystem has been destroyed by the government's forced prevention of the entry of seawater, pollution from factories and cities surrounding the lake, and continuing reclamation and development projects under the government's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme.

  • The reality about the land grab issue and the World Bank Group
    • World Bank
    • 11 October 2012

    Of the $4.2 billion that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invested in agribusiness and forestry in the same period, just three investments – or 2 percent – had any component related to land acquisition.

  • World land grab 'well-advanced as supply runs short'
    • The Australian
    • 11 October 2012

    Derek Byerlee, co-author of a recent World Bank report The Rising Global Interest in Farmland, says world is running out of productive land and foreign investor and corporate land sales are on the rise across the globe.

  • Chinese near Moraitis deal
    • AFR
    • 11 October 2012

    Hong Kong-listed Chevalier Group is set to emerge as a major supplier of fresh produce to Woolworths and Coles by acquiring a significant share of a leading Australian fruit and vegetable wholesaler and grower.

  • BrasilAgro sells second farm for hefty profit
    • Agrimoney
    • 11 October 2012

    BrasilAgro highlighted the gains to be made from Brazilian farmland by selling a second farm from its 170,000-hectare portfolio for a large gain.

Who's involved?

Whos Involved?

Carbon land deals




  • 07 Oct 2025 - Cape Town
    Land, life and society: International conference on the road to ICARRD+20
  • Languages



    Special content



    Archives


    Latest posts