"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.

Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness

Despite all the hypocritical calls and posturing of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for ending hunger, they have facilitated, enabled, and led the global rush for landgrabs

La « vague d’espoir » soulevée par l'annonce de la Cour pénale internationale concernant son intention d'examiner des crimes liés à l’accaparement des terres s’est désormais transformée en « vague espoir »

An exploration on laudato si’s approach to our relationship and responsibility to care for the land and its small-scale food producers

Solange Bolembe of RIAO-RDC, an information and support network for community organisations in the DR Congo, explains the challenges that women face who live in communities affected by oil palm plantations.

La loi autorise pour la première fois des ressortissants étrangers à faire l’acquisition de parcelles de terrain, à condition que celles-ci soient utilisées dans le but déclaré lors de l’achat.

A new report accuses Harvard University’s endowment of contributing to “environmental destruction,” and the displacement and harassment of communities in its pursuit to acquire $1 billion worth of farmland worldwide over the past decade.

After three years of intensive research, CPR-Namati launch resource for frontline practitioners working with communities affected by land use change.

After three years of intensive research, Namati have launched Midcourse Manoeuvers: Community Strategies and Remedies for Natural Resource Conflicts in India, Indonesia, and Myanmar, a groundbreaking resource for frontline practitioners working with communities affected by land use change.

About 12,000 hectares of land in four local government areas of the Nigerian state were reportedly taken for the sugar cane plantation project, backed by a Chinese company, which sparked off protests.

La récente confrontation entre le géant suisse de l’industrie alimentaire Nestlé et la Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable (RSPO) met en lumière un fossé croissant autour de la certification.

Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries, almost 4 a week, making it the worst year on record.

Global Witness confirme la hausse continuelle du nombre de défenseurs de l’environnement assassinés. Les conflits sur l’usage des terres sont le plus souvent en cause, et les meurtres restent largement impunis.

Ramón Bedoya says his father, a land activist, was shot by local paramilitaries in league with agribusiness and narcos who fill the void left by Farc rebels

Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.

During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.

Naivasha-based flower firm Karuturi has sued Stanbic Bank and four receiver managers for allegedly thwarting its revival through mismanagement and secret acquisition of loans.

Un protocole d'entente signé avec Mountain Blue Orchards (Australie) et Driscoll's créé une nouvelle opportunité pour Elite Agro de cultiver des baies toute l'année en Serbie et en Mauritanie pour les marchés du CCG (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Arabie Saoudite, Emirats Arabes Unis).

Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved in scandals concerning destruction of rainforest and land-grabbing in Asia and Africa. Milieudefensie is calling on the banks to cease financing the industrial palm oil sector.

Ramon Bedoya, 18 ans, est en France pour dénoncer les violations massives des droits humains et la dégradation environnementale perpétrées par l'industrie de l'huile de palme et des bananes plantains dans son pays.

L’année 2017 s’est avérée l’une des années les plus mortelles pour les défenseurs des terres. L’année a été assez mauvaise aussi pour plusieurs accapareurs de terres.

2017 went down as one of the deadliest years ever for land defenders. It was also a pretty bad year for several land grabbers.

As more communities are refusing to allow the destruction and contamination of their land, water, soil and air, these struggles deserve to be counted.

Comment les ONGs vont-elles mobiliser le devoir de vigilance ? Les entreprises françaises importatrices de soja provenant d’Amérique latine viennent d’en avoir un avant-goût.