Declaration from international conference on agrarian reform held in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, 17 April 2016 attended by more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 regions and 28 countries of the world.

We share the concerns of local communities regarding the growing interest in community land for corporate oil palm plantations.

Nous partageons les préoccupations des communautés devant l’intérêt des grandes entreprises pour les terres communautaires qu’elles veulent convertir en plantations de palmiers à huile.

Poursuivis en diffamation par le groupe Bolloré pour un article pointant le rôle de grandes entreprises françaises dans le phénomène d’accaparement des terres, Bastamag, son directeur de publication et ses journalistes ont été relaxés.

"Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana".

International and Mozambican organisations and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the ProSavana agribusiness programme.

Selon une étude du code d'investissement effectuée par l'Observatoire Tunisien de l'Économie, la souveraineté de l'État risque d'être menacée dans le domaine des terres agricoles.

This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, conducted by Simone Adler. Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.

Réponses du Groupe Bolloré et de la Socfin au Centre de ressources sur les entreprises et les droits de l'homme

L’un des principaux points de cet accord devrait porter sur l’engagement indéfectible de Senhuile d’éviter toute intervention de nature à perturber les fonctions écologiques de la réserve

Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

Ce financement représente toute l’hypocrisie de l’aide française au développement qui finance, via des paradis fiscaux, une entreprise qui pratique l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, relate Mediapart.

The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and chimpanzee habitat.

Analytical evaluation of effect of current land grabbing policy indicates destabilization of livelihood assets of rural communities of Oromia and Southern Ethiopia.

support letter by members of the international “No! to ProSAVANA” campaign and of the “International Network of those Affected by Vale” to UNAC (União Nacional de Camponeses) in response to the threats and attempted physical attacks they suffered on 11 January 2016.

La réforme foncière en cours au Sénégal cherche à doter le pays d’un outil qui puisse préserver la paix sociale de manière durable, en évitant certains pièges qui risquent de précipiter les terres entre les mains de l’agrobusiness.

Despite important legal victories, Anuak of Gambella continue to face land evictions and repression to clear their lands for foreign and domestic investors.

The ProSavana coordination team, together with the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, has resorted to enticement and has set out to co-opt national civil society organisations.

Reports about land-grabs in Africa often attack the corporations that stand to profit from such projects. But little is said of the international development banks that fund the projects.

Canadian company developing plantations in the DRC announces new financing from a syndicate of European development funds, backed by Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK.

Farmers and activists in Cameroon say a jail sentence handed down on an environmentalist who exposed land-grabbing by a multinational agro-industrial company, sends a dangerous signal to communities trying to protect their lands.

Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.

Réunion publique avec la Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau, Paris, le 10 decembre

A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.

Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.

Conference highlights the state of land grabbing in Africa, cases of resistance across the continent, as well as Church responses and its increasing engagement on issues of land grabbing.

La conférence offrira notamment un état des lieux de l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, des études de cas de résistances contre l’accaparement de terre ainsi que les réponses apportées par l’Église et son engagement croissant sur cette problématique.

Une société new-yorkaise chargée de la gestion de l'épargne-retraite des travailleurs en Suède, aux États-Unis et au Canada se soustrait aux lois brésiliennes sur les investissements étrangers pour acquérir des terres agricoles