The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank stop funding projects, especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, that result in landgrabbing.

RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.

By buying up US farmland and leasing it to large-scale farm machinery operators, TIAA is closing the door on policies that could revive the more diversified farming that used to underlie healthy local economies.

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%.

A 15,000-hectare concession awarded to Karuturi Global in Ethiopia’s Gambela region has left locals fearing their ancestral lands will be cleared for agribusiness once again by the Indian firm.

Una coalición de grupos hace un llamado urgente ante las autoridades de Etiopía y de India para que se cancele la concesión de nuevos contratos de arrendamiento de tierras a la compañía de agronegocios Karuturi Global.

En avril 2019, Karuturi Global a informé ses actionnaires qu'on lui avait "accordé 15 000 hectares de terrain pour des activités agricoles" à Gambella, mais le contrat de bail n'a toujours pas été délivré par les autorités compétentes

A diplomatic intervention by the Indian government and law suits filed by the company appear to have pushed Ethiopian authorities to backtrack and offer a new lease in the Gambella region, this time for 15,000 hectares.

As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to limit foreign ownership of U.S. farmland have gained traction.

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

Face à l'enfer de l'accaparement des terres, leur dégradation et leur artificialisation, un mouvement « terrariste » prend corps, écrit Geneviève Azam

Pour dénoncer les violences faites aux femmes des communautés locales, des militantes se mobilisent devant l’Assemblée Générale du Groupe Bolloré.

As Bolloré Group heads to its annual shareholder meeting this week, the company is facing a new lawsuit against its Socfin interests, filed on behalf of Cameroonian palm oil workers by a group of NGOs demanding better working conditions for them.

Une action de solidarité avec les communautés affectées par les plantations de SOCFIN en Afrique et en Asie a été menée au Luxembourg ce 28 mai durant l’Assemblée générale de la multinationale. Une dizaine d’activistes ont directement participé à l’AG pour dénoncer ses agissements et réclamer des actions immédiates.

An action of solidarity with the communities affected by SOCFIN's plantations in Africa and Asia was carried out in Luxembourg today during the multinational's General Assembly. About 10 activists participated in the GA to denounce the situation and demand immediate action.

For Saudi state-based SALIC the investment in Hummingbird reflects its ambitions to evolve into a global agribusiness investment company, and is a strong strategic move after its string of farmland deals this past year.

Su objetivo: obtener la aplicación de medidas para mejorar las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores y residentes de las plantaciones de aceite de palma en Camerún, gestionadas por una empresa de la que el grupo es accionista.

Huile de palme au Cameroun : les juridictions françaises doivent ordonner au groupe Bolloré de respecter ses engagements en faveur des riverains et travailleurs des plantations de Socapalm.

Palm oil in Cameroon: French courts must order the group to respect its commitments for residents and workers of the Socapalm plantations.

Pour permettre aux paysans de la vallée de se développer, face aux grands exploitants privés étrangers, l’Etat a consenti à une annulation pure et simple de leurs dettes

In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.

Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.

La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley 13.465/17 que modifica cerca de 26 marcos legales sobre la tierra en Brasil, llamada (“Ley del grilagem” o “Ley de acaparamiento”), instrumentan una regularización ambiental y agraria como mecanismos de apropiación masiva de tierras públicas y “devueltas”

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.

China's investment in foreign agricultural projects is booming, according to statistics peddled by Chinese agricultural officials during "Belt and Road" summit held in Beijing.

Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.

Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.

À l'origine des manifs qui ont amené à la chute du reǵime : la hausse du prix du pain, multiplié par trois. Pourtant, le Soudan exporte des produits agricoles vers les pays du Golfe, qui ont pris contrôle de plus d'un million d'hectares de ses terres pour leur propres besoins alimentaires.

An independent investigation by witnessradio.org indicates that the foreign-owned agribusiness company Agilis Partners wants to use the 2100 hectares to grow soybeans and other crops.

Le livret « Promettre, diviser, intimider, contraindre : 12 tactiques utilisées par les sociétés productrices d’huile de palme pour s'emparer des terres communautaires » a été publiée aujourd’hui par le Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales, GRAIN et une alliance d’organisations communautaires et locales unies contre les plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile en Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale.