Land ownership concentration and big money are forcing farmers to clear their lands in order to keep up in the Canada's Saskatchewan Province.

Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.

Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.

Le projet comprend une zone agricole de 168 000 ha où seront cultivés et transformés la luzerne, le blé, le coton, le sésame et d'autres cultures

Le ministre de l’Agriculture de la Tunisie vient de déclarer qu’il ne propose pas au niveau du plan de réformes gouvernementales la vente des terres domaniales aux étrangers mais plutôt la possibilité de les louer à des sociétés à participation étrangère avec la révision du taux de celle-ci dans le capital de 66 à 100%.

African Africulture Inc takes control of 20,000 ha previously granted to Senhuile in Senegal plus 2.2 million hectares in Niger

US pension fund manager TIAA provides an introduction to carbon markets for land-based investments in order to evaluate how carbon can be incorporated into land-based investment strategies.

The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.

Signatories of a petition objecting to the certification of SOCFIN Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil have been a target of arbitrary harassment and criminalization.

A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.

Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.

Experts warn that providing companies with an option to dispute the revocation opens up room for corruption, and gives companies time to speed up the exploitation of the land while the revocations remain non-binding.

Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in Benue state, Nigeria over probable land indemnity disputes with the natives regarding lands originally owned by the state government.

Une déclaration prononcée lors du « Sommet des peuples africains » en vue du 6ème Sommet UE-Afrique, exigeant plus d’espace pour les OSC et des mesures pour garantir la justice foncière et l’agroécologie.

L’enjeu du délibéré, ce vendredi 7 janvier, est de permettre à la justice d’établir la responsabilité de Bolloré sur les activités de cette filiale camerounaise de Socfin, la maison-mère commune.

The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.

Après la signature des accords de paix en 2016 à Cuba, les guérilleros sont partis. Dans leur sillage sont arrivés, le long de cette même piste poussiéreuse d'une centaine de kilomètres, des accapareurs de terres que personne n'ose identifier.

A mercantilização da agricultura e as falsas ‘obrigações climáticas’ favorecem investimentos estrangeiros em negócios que desmatam.

This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.

Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.

"Madagascar's development policies are focused on the promotion of the extractive and agro-industrial sectors which lead to a recurrent land grabbing issue,” says CRAAD-OI

The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.

Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns

A fifth of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, are operating illegally inside forest areas that are off-limits to commercial agricultural activity, a new report from Greenpeace shows.

According to research by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, which analysed 170 commodities, palm oil and cobalt are at “extreme” risk of land grabs

GRAIN reflects on a new report on large scale land acquisitions by the Land Matrix Initiative.

Le groupe Socfin (détenu à 40% par le groupe Bolloré) transfère des bénéfices issus de la production de matières premières vers Fribourg, un canton suisse à faible fiscalité, selon un nouveau rapport de Pain pour le prochain, Alliance Sud et le Réseau allemand pour la justice fiscale

A new report on the tax strategy of agribusiness corporation Socfin reveals how multinational companies can shift profits from countries where they produce commodities in Africa and Asia to tax havens like Switzerland.

L’Amazonie et la région du Cerrado font face à des destructions dévastatrices pour exporter de la viande et du soja à bas prix. Un rapport inédit pointe la responsabilité des entreprises européennes.

La recrudescence des tensions entre la société PHC et les communautés reste très fréquente, malgré les multiples publications sur les mauvais traitements des travailleurs et le non-respect des droits des communautés ayant-droits.