Given the power imbalances at play, it is folly to assume that land-seekers will suddenly embrace, en masse, a set of voluntary rules promoting sustainable and equitable investor practices, says Michael Kugelman

Circle of Blue have put together an interactive map of land grabs by country and by sector.

As foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm oil plantations, the survival of local people is being threatened as they lose control of the land and water on which they depend for their food production and livelihoods

An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.

It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.

Le nom de Socfin, la holding belgo-luxembourgeoise qui détient des dizaines de milliers d’hectares de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas, a été symboliquement saisi en France, dans le conflit qui oppose depuis des années les paysans africains et le groupe Bolloré.

Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.

A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.

Reportage de Mongabay sur le conflit autour de la Socaplam au Cameroun

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.

How do major oil palm companies manage to get their palm oil sold as a “green”, “sustainable” and “climate-friendly” product when it is none of that?

Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.

Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.

Despite important legal victories, Anuak of Gambella continue to face land evictions and repression to clear their lands for foreign and domestic investors.

China ha aceptado firmar tratados comerciales que la obligan a importar alimentos, y ha implementado políticas que favorecen el desarrollo de fincas de mayor tamaño y de inmensas corporaciones del agronegocio y la alimentación

La Chine a accepté des accords commerciaux qui obligent le pays à importer des denrées alimentaires et mis en place des mesures favorisant le développement des grandes exploitations et d’énormes entreprises alimentaires et agroindustrielles.

Borneo human rights organization files complaint alleging multiple breaches of RSPO standards by palm oil supplier PT. Swadaya Mukti Prakarsa (SMP) / First Resources.

The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary announce intention to convert eight million hectares of land to oil palm cultivation across the Philippines, including the island of Palawan. The announcement has proved controversial.

A controversial foreign investment to produce agrofuels for Europe on 20,000 ha in Senegal has angered communities and sparked violent clashes between peasants and the police.

The 450 civil society organisations taking part in a parallel forum were not won over by FAO's optimism about a code of conduct. "Land grabbing by external capital must stop," read a declaration by participants at the forum.

Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations

The 10 largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report. This accumulation fuels human rights abuse, inequalities, and environmental destruction, and underlines the need for redistributive policies.

The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.

Between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.

Más de 100 organizaciones denuncian a la RSPO durante su 19ª asamblea general por el lavadoverde de la destrucción del medio ambiente, los abusos de los derechos humanos y laborales y el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de la industria del aceite de palma

Lebih dari 100 organisasi mengecam RSPO dalam sidang umum ke-19nya karena melakukan greenwashing terhadap perusakan lingkungan, pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan buruh, serta perampasan tanah oleh industri kelapa sawit.

Vincent Bolloré, son groupe et ses divers porte-parole restent extrêmement chatouilleux au sujet des plantations africaines et asiatiques. Au point de multiplier les procès en diffamation sur le sujet, et de se voir accusés de mener des poursuites-bâillons destinées à faire taire leurs adversaires parlant un peu trop fort sur ce thème.

We can no longer afford to pour billions in public money into projects that exacerbate debt, inequalities, poverty and climate change

The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.

Dans cet article accessible et instructif, Renaud Vivien du CADTM explique comment la Banque mondiale et le FMI ont imposé aux pays du Sud des politiques destructrices pour les économies locales au profit des multinationales.