The smallholders’ last stand
- New Internationalist
- 06 May 2013
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
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The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
- GRAIN
- 14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
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Harvard's billion-dollar farmland fiasco
- GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
- 06 September 2018
One of the world's major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard University's controversial investments in global farmland.
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Sierra Leone’s conflict palm oil certified as sustainable
- China Dialogue
- 08 July 2022
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.
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A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania
- GRAIN
- 02 February 2024
Tanzania’s experience in the global land grab post-2008 led to shattered hopes, land conflicts & misery for small farmers. Yet, the current govt risks repeating history. A new report looks at this critical moment for Tanzania's small farmers & pastoralists.
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Meles Zenawi says no land grab in Ethiopia—not today, not tomorrow
- tramnsformingethiopia
- 11 August 2011
The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.
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Preliminary analysis of the JICA primary documents
- No! to Landgrab, Japan
- 24 January 2016
Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports
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BRICS grab African land and sovereignty
- Pambazuka
- 28 Mar 2013
BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
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How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
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Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio
- Global Witness
- 07 June 2021
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
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Much tilling without harvest
- Zawya
- 16 April 2009
Essentially, the Middle East is left with two choices. “The region has to import. The question is, invest abroad or rely on the free market?” said Dr Eckart Woertz, program manager in economics at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.
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Brazil, worried about food security, seeks to limit foreign land ownership
- El Espectador
- 24 June 2010
The government of Brazil is studying the possibility of prohibiting the purchase of land by foreigners. A discussion with the journalist who broke the news, Mauro Zanatto.
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Egypt’s takeover of Sudan’s Gezira scheme
- Sudan Tribune
- 19 December 2010
News of the deal has aroused very vehement protest from the Sudanese Farmer’s Union and the tenants in the Gezira Scheme.
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The Salim Group and land conflicts around West Papua
- AwasMIFEE
- 07 February 2018
In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.
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On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft
- Mongabay
- 11 August 2021
Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and armed groups that have tried to take over the land where rural communities and Indigenous people live in the Colombian plains, including the US corporation Cargill.
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LatAm is most murderous region for land, environmental activists: report
- InSight Crime
- 14 July 2017
Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world for activists fighting for their land or trying to safeguard the environment, according to a Global Witness report, which also provides insight into why these defenders are at such high risk.
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The village women taking on the palm oil giant
- Fern
- 31 July 2018
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.
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Firm shows how to `farm at end of a long dirt road`
- IPP Media
- 16 June 2011
Kilombero Plantations Limited chief executive officer Carter Coleman talks about his company's large-scale farming operations in Tanzania, including the removal of the "Project Affected Persons" previously farming the lands.
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Land grabs - Another scramble for Africa
- Fahamu
- 17 September 2009
Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.
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World Bank report on land grabbing: Beyond the smoke and mirrors
- GRAIN
- 15 September 2010
GRAIN says the World Bank's much anticipated report on the global farmland grab is both a disappointment and a failure.
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The land rush doesn't have to end in a poor deal for Africans
- Guardian
- 17 April 2014
There are countless examples of governments handing it over at bargain prices to foreign investors, ranging from hedge funds to biofuel producers.
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The coming of foreign farm investors…what lessons for Nigeria ?
- Business Day
- 08 June 2009
It is not clear whether a strategy is in place to ensure that part of the food produced by the rich food importers farms will be sold locally.
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Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists
- The Independent
- 09 August 2009
A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs
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Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’
- Mongabay
- 22 Mar 2018
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
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Sudan, Spanish agricultural projects shelved
- Jordan Times
- 21 September 2010
Jordan's stalled Sudan agricultural investment project is no longer feasible, as no one will pay the infrastructure costs to transport water.
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Canada: Are foreign investors eyeing this pie?
- Western Producer
- 07 September 2012
As the amount of investor-owned farmland grows in Saskatchewan, so do concerns about foreign ownership and loopholes in the province’s farmland ownership regulations.
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PNG land scandal
- ABC
- 14 October 2012
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
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PE firm rethinks Laos/Cambodia fund
- Financial Times
- 18 April 2010
FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.
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Investment bankers with wings: Making a killing
- Huffington Post
- 04 May 2010
Unfortunately, the US Senate inquiry into Goldman Sach's alleged malfeasance is unlikely to question why the company in 2008 decided to acquire ten intensive poultry farms in China's Hunan and Fujian provinces for $300 million.
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The challenges of boosting Tanzania's rice production
- BBC
- 23 December 2013
As investment deals between big business and the government are made across Tanzania, those working on behalf of small-scale farmers argue that more needs to be done to ensure their needs are not overlooked.
