Kenya's High Court has given creditors of the collapsed Karuturi Limited a go-ahead to begin the winding up of the once vibrant flower firm.

Campaigners in Brazil on Wednesday hailed a court decision to cancel a major land acquisition deal because investors had illegally acquired territory from small-scale farmers.

A ban on selling land to citizens of foreign countries was proposed in order to protect local farmers who cannot compete with large Danish, German and other European agricultural enterprises in terms of prices and possibilities to attract funding.

A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

This policy brief presents the different sources of law that are triggered by the use of water for farmland investments, and makes recommendations to help reconcile different legal regimes while ensuring water issues are adequately addressed.

To Karuturi, who has also offered to grow up to one million tonne of lentils for India on farm tracts leased in Ethiopia, the Mozambique model is an example of "political correctness."

Opponents of the Ethiopian government’s policies have faced violence, but the EU has continued to provide funding for its commercial land deal projects.

Throughout the Congo Basin sub-region, whether in Mundemba (Cameroon) or Mboma (Gabon), we see agribusiness increasingly competing with local agricultural economies.

Communities in the DRC are organising to liberate their communities from the occupation and exploitation that they have endured for generations.

European Union (EU) corporate and financial entities involved in land grabbing may be implicated in a variety of human rights abuses.

Today, the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources with support from the European Union and Germany launched a 3.8 million euro project to support responsible agricultural investment in Ethiopia.

Five workers from the troubled Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha have died over the last three months while waiting for their dues after the farm was placed under liquidation and over 3,000 workers sent packing.

A China-led consortium seeking to buy Australia's S. Kidman & Co will hold off on a fresh bid for the country's largest agricultural land owner amid concerns it could be derailed by a more protectionist new government, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

CSO Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia concerned by reports that draft law has been altered significantly behind closed doors, and calls on the legislature to immediately release the new draft for scrutiny by the public and civil society.

Villagers in southern Savannakhet province have been at loggerheads with the Chinese-backed Lamxe Road-Bridge Construction Company since May, when the firm started clearing land for cattle farms.

A growing number of governments have been criminalising the activities of land and human rights activists and putting restrictions on non-governmental groups.

Reports emerge that former workers of the Karuturi flower farm in Kenya, and their children, are in hardship after the farm was placed under liquidation and 3,000 workers sent packing.

Offshore companies control 1.1 million hectares of rural land in Argentina. The government recently amended the Land Law by decree in order to promote further foreign investments in farmland.

Une dizaine de villages de la commune de Ronck (Sénégal) qui s’activent dans la riziculture sont montés au créneau pour alerter l’Etat après une tentative d’expropriation de leurs terres par Sen Huile

Le cacaotier belge KKO International envisage de s'implanter à Madagascar, où il cherche 400 à 500 hectares de terres pour la culture de cacao

Dans toute la sous-région, que ce soit à Mundemba (Cameroun) ou Mboma (Gabon), on observe cette concurrence grandissante de l’agro-industrie face aux économies agricoles locales.

Le colonialisme est revenu à son point de départ et, une fois de plus, l’exploitation est justifiée par le « développement ».

L’échec de l’adoption d’une loi reconnaissant les droits des communautés rurales sur leurs terres ancestrales pourrait faire l’effet d’une étincelle dans un baril de poudre.

Le gouvernement cherche à remettre à plat le registre national du foncier et le cadre juridique dont les investisseurs ont besoin pour financer le secteur agricole

Senhuile cultive actuellement une superficie de 1 500 hectares au Sénégal.

En toda la sub-región, ya sea en Mundemba (Camerún) o en Mboma (Gabón), se observa que la agroindustria compite cada vez más con las economías agrícolas locales.

El colonialismo ha vuelto al punto de partida, y una vez más, esta explotación se justifica como “desarrollo”, como si nunca hubieran existido los horrores del sistema de plantación colonial.

Solicitamos respetuosamente a la Corte Constitucional declare inconstitucional esta ley, por ser un instrumento jurídico que incentiva la concentración y el control de la tierra en Colombia.

El Consejo de Lonkos rechazó, a través de un parte de prensa, “la profundización a la extranjerización de tierras” del Gobierno nacional.

La FAA también disparó contra flexibilización de Macri para la venta de tierras a inversores extrajeros.

Um comerciante de terras brasileiro envolvido na venda de terras agrícolas para fundos de pensão dos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Alemanha e Suécia poderá sofrer processo criminal por ter grilado terras.

Em toda a sub-região, seja em Mundemba (Camarões) ou em Mboma (Gabão), observa-se que a agroindústria compete cada vez mais com economias agrícolas locais.

O colonialismo completou o ciclo e, mais uma vez, essa exploração está sendo justificada como “desenvolvimento”, como se os horrores do sistema colonial de plantações nunca tivessem existido.

Impactos sociais do projecto da sociedade Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited no Regadio do Baixo Limpopo.

Objetivo é coibir a realização de manobras fraudulentas e a aquisição irregular de terras.