The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Asian Peasant Coalition lambasted Nakeen Corporation, a company that operates a palm oil plantation in Misamis Oriental, for spreading lies and deception during their press conference held on May 17, 2012.

Le groupe américain mène «une mission de prospection qui vise à implanter en Afrique, notamment au Cameroun, au Liberia et en Côte d’Ivoire, une vaste plantation de palmier à huile.» On parle de 50000 ha.

The science and environment author discusses a growing global threat

Témoignage d'Ibrahima Coulibaly sur la situation politique du Mali et le problème d'accaparement des terres qui prend une grande importance.

"Nous, Ressortissants des villages concernés par ce projet, avons tenu à exprimer à la communauté nationale et internationale notre point de vue sur ce projet, conscient du fait que les formes et les stratégies de développement ne peuvent être imposées à une population sans leur avis."

Jeffrey Notaro, a trader who worked on Wall Street for 18 years, set up investment fund Black Sea Agriculture seven years ago, mainly for investments in farmland in northern Bulgaria and south Romania.

The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make land available for foreign investment in agriculture, advocacy groups say.

Given the need for investment in African agriculture, there is no reason that foreign farmland investment on the continent cannot be structured as a win-win for both private investors and the host country populations.

Obama announces G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and reiterates support for the "process and pilot use of the Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment"

New paper on the gender dimensions of land grabbing in Africa

The Financial Times reported this week that TIAA-CREF is developing a new “investment vehicle” that will bet the retirement funds of millions of American on the rising price of farmland around the world.

Le groupe agro-industriel ivoirien SIFCA, détenu par les Singapouriens Olam et Wilmar, seraient prêt à débarquer en Afrique centrale pour y développer des plantations de palmiers à huile.

Four African leaders attending the rich nations’ meeting that opens in Washington today have been cautioned to be wary of the G8’s New Alliance to Increase Food and Nutrition Security, noting that it poses a serious threat to small-scale farmers in Africa.

Indigenous Papuans are reeling from the cut-price sale of the land and forests that are their lifeblood

La propiedad agraria y los derechos comunitarios a la tierra no están contemplados en los debates de la próxima Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realizará del 20 al 22 de junio en la ciudad brasileña de Río de Janeiro.