Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.

The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.

The latest regulation issued by the Environment and Forestry Ministry that allows forests to be converted into farmland to support the government’s food estate program has sparked concerns of potential massive deforestation, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).

Communities living within the concessions claimed by PHC have long sought to regain control over their lands and have called for negotiations to determine the conditions under which the company may be allowed to continue to operate.

The Indonesian government says it will expand a national “food estate” program by establishing millions of hectares of new crop plantations in Sumatra and Papua. To expand the project into North Sumatra and Papua, the government is seeking out private investors; but activists say this risks a repeat of the current corporate takeover of Indigenous and community lands.

A new report released today by environmental campaign group Mighty Earth alleges that Michelin, the world’s largest tire company, was complicit in and covered up industrial-scale deforestation of over 2,500 hectares of rainforest in the run-up to the launch of its flagship ‘eco-friendly’ sustainable natural rubber joint venture project in Sumatra, Indonesia.

A new report explores how global finance has transformed land and nature into financial assets, driving violence and environmental destruction.

Ten civil society organizations (CSOs) members of Civil Society Coalition Against Food Estate in Papua strongly reject President Jokowi’s plan to develop a food estate with an area of ​​2,052,551 ha.

Agricultural investors say the COVID-19 crisis has had little impact on their business and investment intentions, with Australian agricultural land, water and business assets as appealing as ever to investors.

Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à démontrer que les activités des banques publiques de développement ont alimenté des violations des droits humains (telles représailles, accaparement de terres et expulsions forcées) sans que les communautés affectées ne puisse accéder à quelconque remède utile."

L’est de l’Europe est victime d’un phénomène d’accaparement de terres par de gros investisseurs étrangers au monde agricole. Le dernier exemple concerne l’Allemagne et le discounter Aldi.

Le débat national sur les conflits fonciers nécessite que l’on réexamine les dossiers fonciers en attente d’un traitement urgent et de prises de décisions étatiques publiques tout aussi urgentes concernant les terres du département de Dagana dans le Waalo. Nous commençons cette analyse avec la commune de Mbane, écrit Yassine Fall.

An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.

Two Harvard-controlled LLCs have deeded over 7,104.74 acres of land in northern San Luis Obispo County, California for an estimated $120.14 million (based upon $132,159 paid in county real estate transfer taxes.)

Contrairement aux fervents partisans du légalisme, en matière de foncier rural, il vaut mieux décrocher d’abord la licence sociale que de se prévaloir d’une sécurité juridico-administrative matérialisée par une délibération (ou notification) du Conseil municipal.

Selon Global Witness, 212 défenseurs des droits à la terre ont été tuées en 2019. Si le secteur minier a été le plus meurtrier, l'agroalimentaire reste une menace, en particulier en Asie où se sont déroulées 80 % des attaques liées à l'agroalimentaire.

As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.

A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.

Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — contribuem para a destruição das florestas tropicais.

A court in Indonesia has sentenced two indigenous farmers to eight and 10 months in prison for harvesting palm fruit from land whose ownership is contested by the community and a palm oil firm, PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun Persada. The ruling appeared to ignore evidence showing that the villagers are the rightful owners of the land

Study finds that, compared with similar areas that have not seen private investment, areas with large-scale land acquisitions had higher forest loss in 52% of cases.

Indonesia sits at the heart of the global palm oil trade. In 2002, one company PT Erasakti Wira Forestama (EWF) offered villagers in Batanghari, Jambi province a one-time payment for their land. Peatlands were converted to plantations — and the repercussions of the decision are still felt today. Some villager

Un projet de loi-cadre sur les terrains dit « à statuts spécifiques » est actuellement en cours de finalisation par le Comité de Révision des Textes sur le Foncier à Madagascar.

In response to resistance from people’s movements, Sri Lanka has pulled out of MCC agreement, which would have opened the door for commercial agriculture and large scale acquisition of Sri Lankan lands for foreign individuals and corporations.

The past few years has seen a steep increase in the players involved in the Australian agribusiness investment sector, particularly with Canadian and American pension funds.

"Have you ever seen a communications specialist of a corporate group admit, without blinking, to the exploitation of minors by subcontractors? That is what happened to us in Cameroon," explains RTBF journalist Emmanuel Morimont

Emmanuel Morimont, journaliste au RTBF, raconte l'histoire de son enquête sur la Socapalm au Cameroun et l'impact qu'il a eu sur la banque Belfius

Kalungu leaders have blocked a move by the proprietors of Lukaya Natural Rice Farm to sack 412 casual workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

When Gulf nations face food, security, and water scarcity issues, one response is to seek lucrative agricultural investments in fertile African lands. Yet, while such deals can bring benefits to the countries involved, there are also sizeable risks

The Indonesian minister in charge of investments, Luhut Pandjaitan, has declared there will be no new permits for oil palm plantations in the country’s Papua region. Activists are skeptical about the minister’s U-turn, given that Luhut has been the government’s most vocal defender of palm oil industry.