Olam's Vice President says its rice farm in Nigeria, with 3,000 hectares of land currently under cultivation, will be expanded to 10,000 hectares, making it the largest rice farm in Africa.

Madagascar, still chafing from a major broil in 2009 after Ravalomanana made a land deal with Daewoo, is set to have a presidential election in November.

RSPO rebukes Golden Veroleum for land grab in communities in Liberia, booking the company for not seeking the consent of communities and coercing locals into signing MOUs.

Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land  to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority buys a 3,500 ha farm in Nasarawa State through a joint venture with UFF Agri Investment, a South African company owned by Old Mutual Property

Earthsight report exposes the secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture which are threatening the Congo Basin’s forests. This post details findings from The Republic of Congo.

In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, hundreds of organizations and individuals demand an end to the violence against women living in and around large-scale oil palm plantations expansion.

Authorities in Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday opened fire on a group of people protesting over a long-running land dispute with a rubber plantation, killing as many as eight people and injuring dozens of others.

Contamination of water sources, deplorable working conditions, and sexual blackmail in exchange for work, are some of the kinds of violence against women living in and around oil palm plantations in Guatemala and Colombia.

The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.

India’s programme to compensate for the destruction of forests for development projects is routinely setting up monoculture tree plantations on community commons. Women, who are mostly affected, are at the centre of its resistance.

From rapes, forced body searches and searches of private spaces, to the risk of losing their lives: this article calls on us not to be accomplices to the violence women living around industrial tree plantations in Cameroon suffer.

Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.

FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability

Plus de 130 millions de FCfa [200 000 euros] ont été emportés par des voleurs, qui ont réussi à cambrioler la ferme agricole de Senegindia à Mbane

Après quatre années à dénoncer les risques et les impacts négatifs effectifs de la Nouvelle alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition, l’annonce du retrait de la France est une réelle victoire. Mais il marque aussi l’échec de la France à transformer l’initiative et ne signifie pas encore que la NASAN soit définitivement terminée.

Dans plusieurs localités du Cameroun, les femmes sont fouillées jusqu’à leur intimité, violentées, torturées et trainées en justice parce qu’elles détiennent quelques noix de palme, dénoncent les riveraines.

A l’occasion de la journée internationale de la femme qui se célèbre ce 8 mars, les femmes vivant près des grandes plantations de palmier à huile, d’hévéa et de banane au Cameroun ont décidé de crier à l’aide face aux souffrances qu’elles endurent au quotidien

Les communautés rurales des villages impactés par les plantations de palmiers à huile du singapourien Olam ont marché à Mouila pour dénoncer les abus faits aux femmes

Les populations rurales craignent l’accaparement par Olam Palm Mouila des terres cultivables et appellent au respect de l’usage de leurs droits coutumiers.

24 pays d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes vient de voter un accord juridiquement contraignant qui protège les droits d'accès à l'information, à la participation publique et à la justice en matière de questions environnementales

La loi sur les ZES privera les Malgaches de l’accès à des milliers d’hectares de terres pour une période de longue durée sinon indéterminée

GRAINと匿名者の支援を受けて、「国連　小農と農村で働く人びとの権利に関する宣言ドラフト」の全訳が完成しました。

http://www.plaas.org.za/event/food-systems-change-livelihoods-and-food-security-under-large-agricultural-investments-kenya