Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements. We particularly explore how the collaborations between the provincial government of Santiago del Estero and non-government organizations (NGOs) in Argentina played out.

Killing of Joël Imbangola Lunea allegedly linked to ongoing unrest between local communities and Canadian palm oil giant Feronia-PHC.

Le terme grilagem est plus pertinent que celui d’«accaparement de terres» parce qu’il se réfère à une situation où la loi n’existe pas (aqui não tem lei), ou s’annule dans une situation très similaire à l’instauration d’un état d’exception.

Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de terre en Ukraine. Elles produisent entre 25 et 30% des céréales et en exportent entre 40 et 45%.

According to asset managers, a window is emerging for institutional money to flow into agriculture due to change of ownership, notably in markets such as Australia and the US.

Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests.

Bank of America’s Specialty Asset Management group manages more than 94,000 assets with a value of $13.6 billion for individuals and institutions looking for timberland, farms, ranches, energy interests, or real estate.

The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.

The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.

Villagers in Krasnaya Gorka in Russia's Chuvashia are protesting the allocation of their lands to a Chinese company for a dairy project.

Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a successful campaign against a foreign palm oil plantation led to death threats and intimidation

Requête et revendications des femmes vivant autour et à l'intérieur des plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéa de la filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré (Socapalm) au Cameroun

Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous peoples of Papua. Anthropologist Sophie Chao has studied the often fraught relationship between Papuans and plantation firms, and the mechanisms through which indigenous people are compelled to give up their land.

Myanmar's new land law amendment has its roots in a British colonial notion of “wasteland” that consciously undermines customary land claims of highland communities to the benefit of foreign investors and tax collectors.

Unless these organizations are firmly held accountable to international human rights standards, they will not only fail to push their industries towards more responsible behavior, but they will become little more than window dressing for corporate misconduct.

Over the past few years, civil society groups have been drawn into a serious of legal actions to defend the rights of people to talk about what they see and experience as land grabbing and other abuses committed not only by multinational corporations in the agribusiness arena, but government authorities and local elites as well.

Au cours des dernières années, des organisations de la société civile ont été impliqués dans une série d’actions juridiques pour défendre le droit des gens de s’exprimer sur ce qu’ils voient et vivent comme un accaparement des terres.

As refugees began to trickle back, many found their land had been taken for parks, military use or leased to palm oil concessions and rubber plantations. From 2011 to 2016, about 1.9 million acres of land across Myanmar were allocated for agricultural concessions including rubber and palm oil.

Wrathall went to the the most remote and contested parts of north Western Australia to investigate stories of the forced closure of Aboriginal communities. What he found instead was a complex and complicated set of issues around the ways that huge mineral-rich region is being developed by government, big mining and big agriculture.

The Russian government has actively supported foreign investment in Siberian agriculture, making 1 million hectares of arable land in the Far Eastern Federal District available to foreign buyers

Illegally banana plantations backed by obscure nexus of Chinese investors are making quick profits for some, but fuelling land conflict and environmental degradation in Kachin province, Myanmar.

Criminalization is now the strategy being used by the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sandabi Indah Lestari, which supplies Wilmar International, to grab lands.

Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights

"I think we are in the Goldilocks period of this opportunity right now where the market isn’t too thin or too saturated, but just right," says Artem Milinchuk founder of farmland investment company FarmTogether.

Between 2000-2011, 68% of all investigated foreign capital to 9 top companies in soy and beef sectors in the Brazilian Amazon was transferred through tax havens. Soy and beef production cause major Amazon deforestation.

Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.

According to its latest investment report, the Jaguar Pension Plan placed $16.5m in an agriculture fund managed by Boston-based Folium Capital

Un conflit social sur la principale plantation gabonaise de palmiers à huile du géant singapourien a pris ces derniers jours une tournure violente. Plusieurs salariés ont été interpellés.

MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda for large-scale agricultural development and another with Al Dahra Holding for collaboration on the implementation of the National Strategy for Future Food Security.