Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.

One of the manifestations of the greed of Africa's domestic plutocrats and their imperial overlords is the massive land grab that we are witnessing today.

Foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets.

Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

The World Bank’s independent watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), has finalized its investigation into a complaint filed five years ago, alleging grave human rights violations by communities living near the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia.

A grievance assessment mission commissioned by Belgian oil palm and rubber company Socfin has been rejected by communities affected by the company’s operations in several African and Asian countries.

Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry

Plus de 100 organisations dénoncent la RSPO lors de sa 19ème assemblée générale pour avoir écoblanchi la destruction de l'environnement, les violations des droits humains et du travail et l'accaparement des terres par l'industrie de l’huile de palme.

Dans le nord-ouest du Sénégal, une coalition de 37 villages proteste depuis dix ans contre l’attribution de 20 000 hectares à une entreprise agroalimentaire. Ce conflit foncier illustre un phénomène généralisé sur le continent africain : l’accaparement de terres par des multinationales.

UkrLandFarming has been facing hard times due to complicated situation around its owner Oleh Bakhmatyuk, a Ukrainian businessman who is active in several businesses including agriculture, mass media, and finance.

Numerous ethnic women living inside Ethiopia today are attempting to work toward peace in the northern and southern regions of Ethiopia as they continue to witness the destructive crackdown of the government against rural farming communities.

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.

Analytical evaluation of effect of current land grabbing policy indicates destabilization of livelihood assets of rural communities of Oromia and Southern Ethiopia.

Over the past couple of decades, China has embraced trade agreements that oblige it to import foods and implemented policies that favour the development of larger farms and massive agribusiness and food corporations.

Avec de tels projets, l’accaparement de terres par des investisseurs internationaux pour mener des opérations de compensation carbone, phénomène déjà observé, pourrait s’aggraver.

The story of the defaulted company Mriya Agro Holding shows what risks investors and creditors are willing to take in the pursuit of profit in Ukraine’s agribusiness.

Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.

Social organisations are shocked and offended by a Wall Street Journal article written by the FAO Director General and EBRD President that calls on governments to embrace corporations as the main engine for global food production.

Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented.

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.

In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.

A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.

On the eve of their shareholder meetings, more than 40 organisations sign a collective statement about the situation in numerous rubber and oil palm plantations run by the Socfin group, with the financial participation of the Bolloré group

In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.

The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo.

Chinese foreigners are forcing farmers in southwest Madagascar to sell their land for a mere 7 ariary (less than US $0.01) per square meter.

Is land-grabbing over, in Mozambique and across Africa and the rest of the developing world? Now that crop and food prices have returned to their usual punishingly low levels, is the pressure off from foreign buyers looking to acquire large tracts of agricultural lands?

As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.