Weather challenges in the region, called Matopiba after the first two letters of Maranhao, Tocantins, Piaui and Bahia states, shouldn’t have flabbergasted farmers and investors. What’s been surprising is the voracious appetite for planting there.

Almost ten years have after the term “land grabbing” first entered the popular imagination, large-scale land acquisitions remain shrouded in secrecy.

New report by the Land Matrix finds 26.7 million hectares of agricultural land around the world have been transferred to foreign investors since the year 2000. Report details who is buying farmland in which regions of the world and how this land is being used.

Petition calls for Malawi government to withdraw court case against the People's Land Organisation, which is claiming reparations from the tea estates in Thyolo and Mulanje for the forced labour that their fore parents were subjected to in the estates by the colonial settlers.

The head of Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service has revealed that deforestation by two illegal cocoa and oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon has caused US$111 million of damage.

In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shape.

Chinese-backed company Harmony Beef and Cattle is buying the Earl of Stradbroke's grand rural property Mt Fyans in the Western District of Victoria for about $34 million.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart and a minority Chinese partner agreed to buy Australia’s most iconic cattle company in a deal valued at about A$365 million ($277 million).

Anywaa Survival Organisation is greatly concerned about the worsening security situation in Ethiopia and the government's criminalisation of food security, land and human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents.

Chinese investors are rushing to invest in agriculture in Cambodia, drawn by ideal farming conditions and the sound relationship between the two countries.

TIAA pays R$1.1 billion to increase its stake in Radar Propriedades Agrícolas S.A, a joint-venture established in partnership with Cosan in 2008 which owns and manages rural properties in Brazil.

Pour la troisième fois, un groupe chinois tente de se porter acquéreur des stations d'élevage de la famille Kidman.

Comment la PAC (politique agricole commune) favorise les investisseurs étrangers au détriment des agriculteurs roumains...

Le groupe chinois Shanghai Cred s'associe au puissant groupe minier australien Hancock pour parvenir à ses fins : acheter le premier propriétaire foncier d'Australie, Kidman and Co.

«Ces investissements augmenteront l’agriculture vivrière bien qu’en échange le gouvernement renonce à des revenus en raison d’une longue trêve fiscale», souligne le Fonds monétaire international

L’ONG canadienne Acorn a coorganisé avec le React un forum international des organisations de paysans spoliés par les multinationales du 18 au 25 septembre 2016 à Douala.

Les grands groupes sucriers produisent 70 % de la canne à sucre à Maurice et possèdent tous de grandes superficies de terres

Si l’avant-projet de nouvelle constitution est voté en l’état, il devrait envoyer un signal fort aux multinationales actives dans l’agro-business

La verkhovna Rada a prolongé au moins jusqu’en 2018, le moratoire sur la vente de terres agricoles.

Ce profil pays présente les données de la Land Matrix pour le Sénégal et comprend les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle (LSLA)

Ante la información llegada desde la comunidad Guahory, donde efectivos de la Policía Nacional en complicidad con empresarios de origen brasileño, atropellaron a un grupo de mujeres que seguía resistiendo en el territorio.

Frente Parlamentar Agropecuária (FPA) pauta em seu “cardápio” a aprovação do Projeto de Lei (PL) 4059/2012, que pretende liberar no território brasileiro.

TIAA tinha metade da Radar, mas Cosan vendeu parte de sua fatia; relatório de 2015 diz que empresa adquiriu terras griladas e que compra de terras era ilegal