Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

From Ghana to Nigeria and Ivory Coast, communities impacted by the operations of Belgium’s SIAT Group seek an end to a decade-long conflict tied to SIAT’s extensive plantations.

Du Ghana au Nigeria en passant par la Côte d’Ivoire, des communautés exigent la résolution des conflits fonciers et sociaux qui perdurent depuis une décennie dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT.

Grupo Horita, que atua no Matopiba, apresentou doze fazendas sob investigação do Ministério Público, que avisou sobre inquérito mais de um mês antes do lançamento da captação de recursos

Terra est une société de l’indo-canadien Rahim Dhrolia qui dispose dans le Haut-Katanga, en République Démocratique du Congo, d’au moins 10 mille hectares de terre consacrés à l’agriculture, dont 2 mille seulement ont été exploités cette année

Mohammed Dewji has secured land in Rwanda as part of his decision to pour millions of dollars into the country through his Dar es Salaam-based food conglomerate, MeTL Group.

Concrètement, les épargnants acquerraient des terres agricoles qui seraient ensuite données à bail à long terme à un agriculteur dans le cadre du statut du fermage

A new report explains how Harvard University, pension fund TIAA and multinational agribusiness corporation Bunge are enabling illegal land grabs and increasing deforestation for soy production

Poultry groups MHP and Tanmiah Food Company have struck a deal to set up a joint venture in Ukraine that they say will boost Saudi Arabia’s food security.

When Dominion Farms Ltd pulled out from the Yala Swamp, residents hoped to get their lands and water back. But the lands were signed over to a bank that then transferred it to a sugar cane plantation company on a 99 year lease.

The Swiss association of the largest public pension funds, has decided to exclude shares in the French group Bolloré SE. The exclusion is justified by “potential human rights violations in Liberia, Cambodia and Sierra Leone”.

L’agriculture familiale disparaît au profit d’une agriculture de firme, en France, entraînant une désertification des campagnes. Le gouvernement, lui, est dans le déni. Reportage de Splann! publié par Mediapart

L'association suisse des plus grandes caisses publiques de retraite a décidé d'exclure les actions du groupe français Bolloré SE "à la suite de violations potentielles des droits humains en Libéria, Cambodge et Sierra Leone".

An Indonesian court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua.

The pact with China's Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group and a company the Zambian government said was called Development Company Ltd. of China, will include 100,000 hectares of plantations of slash pine.

Belgian businessman Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré's group want to take total control of Socfin by acquiring all the shares in the Luxembourg multinational, which is regularly accused of human rights violations.

L’homme d’affaires belge Hubert Fabri et le groupe de Vincent Bolloré veulent s’arroger le contrôle total de Socfin en acquérant toutes les parts de la multinationale luxembourgeoise, régulièrement accusée de violation des droits humains

Fiera Capital, fondo de inversión canadiense, está muy cerca de cerrar la compra de la empresa española Innoliva con sus 8.000 hectáreas en España y Portugal, principalmente en las regiones de Extremadura y el Alentejo.

On estime que la chaîne de supermarchés Colruyt aurait racheté environ 6% des terres agricoles en Belgique. Mais parmi les agriculteurs, ça grogne.

Under Cibus Fund I’s ownership, Innoliva has doubled its footprint from around 4,300ha of “super high-density” olive-oil production to over 8,300ha of diversified products, including almonds and table olives.

En su primer caso abordando a un gran comercializador de aceite de palma, el Punto Nacional de Contacto de las Directrices para Empresas Multinacionales de la OCDE ha ofrecido sus buenos oficios en el caso presentado por Lideres y Lideresas Indígenas peruanos contra Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.

In its first case to address a major palm oil commodity trader, the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises offered its good offices in the complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous Leaders against Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.

Le débat sur l’assainissement du foncier agricole revient au-devant de la scène en Algérie.

The consolidation of smallholding farms has long been taking place in advance of so-called economies of scale — but instead of benefiting farmers, this has so far benefited only land-grabbers.

The Communities who were contending over the equity distribution of ground rent by the owner of the estate, Wing Song M-House, finally reached a mutual understanding after a series of previous engagements with the ministry.

Le groupe nigérian Saroafrica a acquis 86,7% du capital de la société de droit belge Siat auprès de la holding Fimave aux mains de la famille Vanderbeek.

Contre-rapport de la SYNAPARCAM en réponse à une evaluation faite par Earthworm Foundation pour le compte de SOCFIN au Cameroun

New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.

Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.

Behind a process to transfer land and hand over 14,173 hectares to three villages stands Landesa, a land rights organization that designed the modality of the transfer process and coordinated the negotiations.