Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.

Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.

Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.

Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory.

While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.

Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.

Ethiopia’s development of Chinese-backed sugar plants in the country’s south, part of a plan to become one of the world’s top 10 exporters, is struggling because of a lack of funding and technical expertise, a research group said.

Private investments in Moroccan state-owned land leased to farmers and investors reached $1.4 billion by the end of 2015, with 111,000 hectares allocated in the last two years

Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.

For nearly three hours on the morning of 3 June, around a hundred protesters peacefully blockaded the entrances to the headquarters of Bolloré, one of France's most powerful companies.

The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India provided $35 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory project, which includes the development of 3,000 hectares of irrigable land.

Peasants from more than 19 districts affected by the ProSavana programme and other organisations reiterate their rejection of the ProSavana programme, as it has been advancing against their expressed will for the last four years.

The private farming company, Sewa Farm, will start rice farming between June and July this year in Turma Bum in Bonthe district on an initial 25,000 hectares.

Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers

La Commission des épiscopats de la Communauté européenne souhaite que l’Europe lutte contre l’accaparement des terres cultivables et promeut des pratiques agricoles « à petite échelle ».

Les chinois se lancent dans l'acquisition de cultures céréalières en France. Rencontre avec un agriculteur qui se mobilise pour alerter les autorités des menaces de ces investissements.

Vincent Bolloré a accusé l'émission Complément d'enquête, de France 2, d'avoir fabriqué de faux témoignages d'employés d'une plantation de palmiers dont il est actionnaire, au Cameroun.

Beqele Gerba et ses coaccusés, arrêtés pour avoir protesté contre l'accaparement de terres dans la région d'Oromia, ont été frappés au cours de leur détention et forcés à comparaître devant un tribunal dans une tenue inadéquate

Entre le 1 et le 3 juin, des rassemblements massifs ont eu lieu au Cameroun et au Liberia pour demander le respect des droits des communautés locales par Socfin et Bolloré

Le 3 juin au matin, pendant près de trois heures, une centaine de manifestants sont venus pacifiquement bloquer différentes entrées du siège du Groupe Bolloré, l'un des plus puissants groupes français.

Les organisations de la campagne Non à ProSavana réaffirmons que nous rejetons le programme ProSavana comme il s'est développé depuis les quatre dernières années.

Le Gouvernement Orbán s’apprête à privatiser 380 000 hectares de terres arables, soit 20% du total des terres détenues par l’Etat.