One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail on the spurious charge of “terrorism”.

Land-based investments in Africa supported by the G8's New Alliance follow similar patterns to unrealised ambitions of biofuels investments.

Today, on the heels of Ukraine’s new cabinet appointments, the Oakland Institute is releasing a new brief detailing western agribusiness investments in the country.

Will FPIC ‘help’ or ‘hurt’ the cause of agrarian justice? The dilemmas and challenges of using FPIC are already surfacing and warrant closer attention.

Panel presentation on agribusiness in Africa at the New York Forum AFRICA 2014 in Gabon, with representatives of the Pan-African Agriculture and Agribusiness Consortium, Amatheon Agri Holding N.V. and the Government of Gabon.

Let us focus on the real issue that our legislators should be grasping: how do we keep farmers operating and attract farmers to own the land they work, and not become peasants on land rented from institutional investors, domestic or foreign.

Millions of hectares of land in Africa, Asia and Latin America find their way into the hands of large-scale foreign investors each year. The victims of "land grabbing" are local villagers and farmers.

Five members of Malen Affected Land Owners Association arrested by police for allegedly destroying oil palms of Luxembourg-based SOCFIN say they are being unfairly targeted by those profiting from the plantation.

Frameworks that emphasize procedural safeguards to protect land users’ rights are ineffective at contesting the power dynamics at play in land transactions.

Forum condemns any practices consisting in grabbing natural resources (land, water, forests...) and granting them to agro-industrial stakeholders who are threatening the development of family farms' potential.

Of the $4.2 billion that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invested in agribusiness and forestry in the same period, just three investments – or 2 percent – had any component related to land acquisition.

This Fact Sheet examines the involvement of The Netherlands in global land and water grabbing.

Investigative Journalism and critical analysis into land issues currently affecting rural communities would not only reveal malpractices in land issues but also provide a voice for the voiceless in rural communities.

Released on the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, April 23-26, 2012, two new films reveal widespread violations of people's rights and environmental destruction from land grabbing in Africa.

La Via Campesina calls on all of its members and allies to organize actions around the world on April 17 to display massive popular resistance to land grabbing and highlight the struggle against corporate control over land and natural resources.

While interest in Australian agricultural land is coming from all quarters, it is the prospect of sovereign investment to shore up a nation's food security that is attracting the most attention.

The National Coordination of Farming Organizations in Mali and the Via Campesina invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against global land grabs.

Peasants affected by land grabbing will hand over the Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organizations endorsing it, to governments during the negotiations on the Guidelines in Rome from 10-14 October.

The thriving market for land for commercial agriculture in East and West Africa is now seen as a threat to food security as rural populations are pushed off prime land.

Chinese group Chongqing Grain is due to launch an agri-industrial project expected to cost 4 billion reals (US$2.4 billion) in the state of Bahia, Brazil, the state’s secretary for Agriculture said.

One of the problems with so-called ‘land grabs’ is secrecy. Most of the contracts that seal such deals are hidden from public scrutiny, which makes it very hard to establish what is really going on.

Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.

In 2006, Thailand had about 25 million farmers, who accounted for 40% of the population. The number is likely fall to 37% of the population by 2013. The government must act to reverse the trend, otherwise investors could rent or buy land from farmers to invest in large-scale farming, agricultural processing plants and hiring local people.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday that he is sending a high-level business mission to the Philippines in April to look for investment opportunities in the Philippine agriculture sector.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton project, Uzbekistan. In 2019, a presidential decree allocating 50,000 hectares of land to Indorama Agro resulted in the arbitrary termination of thousands of farmers’ land leases without free, prior and informed consent.

Advocates for 22 communities affected by the problems told ICIJ the sale allowed Socfin and the IFC to minimize their responsibility for addressing harm done to workers and plantation residents, adding to longstanding criticisms of the World Bank's handling of damages caused by projects it finances.

The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them

In order to apply for a licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, private equity owned SanLei Premium Trout had to show how local communities would benefit. But the Catchment Resilience Fund initiative seems to have crumbled after less than a year.

The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.