The booklet “Promise, Divide, Intimidate and Coerce: 12 tactics palm oil companies use to grab community land” has been launched today by the World Rainforest Movement, GRAIN and an Alliance of community and local organisations united against industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa.

Interview with Mayur and Kamlesh Madhvani, the Joint Managing Directors of the Madhvani Group which controls a 14,000 hectare sugar estate in Uganda

29 March is Day of the Landless, it marks the founding anniversary of Asian Peasant Coalition and the launching of No Land, No Life! campaign. 126 organizations from 24 countries are issuing the following statement to commemorate the struggle of rural communities around the world for land and resources.

Tensions between local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months following a complaint presented last year to the company’s international financial backers.

This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers within the Lokutu oil palm plantation concession area of the Canadian company Feronia Inc, following weeks of growing tension between communities and the company.

Ce samedi des militaires auraient tiré à balles réelles sur des villageois dans le district d’exploitation de plantations de palmiers à huile de la société canadienne Feronia à Lokutu, suite à des semaines de tension entre les communautés et la société.

The Luxembourgish daily publishes a letter from Socfin, a plantation company registered in Luxembourg, together with its own rectifications.

On the 8th of March - International Women's Day – we join women across the world who are affected by the violent expansion of industrial oil palm and rubber plantations and who are calling for action to stop the harassment, sexual violence and abuse against women in and around plantations IMMEDIATELY!

Le 8 mars nous nous associons aux femmes impactées par l’expansion violente des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas qui appellent à l’action pour L’ARRÊT IMMÉDIAT du harcèlement, des violences sexuelles et des abus à leur encontre.

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.

The newly built Blue Plains Farm, the 4th constructed for the company Agrited, will be located near to Fiditi town, Oyo State on 112 ha of bushland.

The Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company has emerged as the likely buyer of Australia’s biggest single parcel of broadacre farming land, based in the Wheatbelt.

The women of Malen, Sierra Leone are demanding that the lands taken from them by SOCFIN be returned to them so they can go back to their farms for their own agricultural activities and be able to take care of their families.

Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to a new report from ODI.

A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.

The group say they are under threat of losing their land, traditions and customs since the arrival of Socfin-KCD, a firm funded by the French company Bollore

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

国連総会で最終的に採択された「小農と農村で働く人びとの権利に関する国連宣言」の最終版の日本語全訳を掲載します。

Proponents of land rights in Sierra Leone note with grave concern the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and users Association who were dispossessed of their land by the agro–based multinational SOCFIN.

Au moins deux villageois ont été tués et nombre d’autres sont cachés ou ont été détenus par la police à Malen, en Sierra Leone, suite à l’intervention brutale de la police et de l’armée visant à supprimer les protestations surgies localement contre les opérations de la plantation de palmiers à huile de SOCFIN.

Les pressions pour ouvrir le marché foncier au Brésil proviennent principalement de Chine.

Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.

Empresarios chinos y agroindustria presionan congreso para cambiar reglas, pero ambientalistas temen consecuencias.

One of Canada’s largest pension funds acquires majority stake in Australian company that owns 44,167 ha of arable land, as well as significant grain storage, fertilizer, agronomy, livestock, farming and logistics businesses.

A step forward to resolve a long-standing land conflict with PHC, a subsidiary of Feronia Inc

Cela signifie un pas en avant pour résoudre un conflit foncier de longue date avec les Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), une filiale de la société canadienne, Feronia Inc.

Walhi meminta Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) memperhatikan pemberian izin pengelolaan sawit kepada PT Sebuku Inti Plantation, di Kabupaten Buol, Sulawesi Tengah. Sebelumnya, Bupati Buol pernah ditangkap karena menerima suap agar menerbitkan HGU kepada PT Sebuku Inti Plantation pada tahun 2012.

ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.

Interview activist Nasako Besingi, the Director of the Cameroonian organization Struggle to Economize the Future Environment (SEFE), which supports local communities’ land rights struggles mainly against palm oil plantations.