El año 2017 terminó como uno de los más fatídicos para los defensores de la tierra. También fue un año muy malo para muchos acaparadores de tierras.

L’année 2017 s’est avérée l’une des années les plus mortelles pour les défenseurs des terres. L’année a été assez mauvaise aussi pour plusieurs accapareurs de terres.

A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.

Land prices have increased dramatically and despite a moratorium on foreign land purchasing, foreign entities have found a way to buy land. Polish farmers are despairing and protesting en masse.

2017 went down as one of the deadliest years ever for land defenders. It was also a pretty bad year for several land grabbers.

Les paysans mozambicains font reculer l’agro-industrie

Seventy farmers of the Confédération paysanne came from all over France to occupy the "La Croix Valmer" vineyard of Vincent Bolloré in the Var to denounce land grabbing and the financialisation of farmland

The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed to have an emerging-market hubris every bit as blinding as that of their colonial predecessors.

On the occasion of the publication of Transnational Corporations and Land Speculation in Brazil, Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, Devlin Kuyek and Attila Szőcs about the broader implications of the report's findings.

NGOs and solidarity organisations supporting the struggles of affected local communities assess the problems caused, and promises unkept, by the SOCFIN group, as shareholders meet for the rubber and oil palm giant’s AGM on 30 May.

A l’occasion de l’assemblée générale qui se tiendra au Luxembourg ce 30 mai 2018, les associations et ONG en soutien aux luttes des communautés affectées par les activités de SOCFIN font le bilan des problèmes générés et des promesses non-tenues par le groupe agro-industriel multinational spécialisé dans la culture de palmiers à huile et d’hévéa (caoutchouc).

South Korea’s Daewoo is one of world’s largest transnational conglomerates and continues to expand a business empire that extends from manufacturing and trade to natural resources like oil and gas, minerals and food.

No Brasil, o Mato Grosso e o Matopiba são as regiões preferenciais de grandes aquisições, de acordo com Márcio Perin, coordenador da área de Terras da consultoria Informa Economics IEG/FNP, referência na análise dos preços e transações de terra no país.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor could see Chinese produce grown in Pakistan exported to Chinese markets, with little benefit whatsoever to Pakistan’s economy.

“I’ve got strong interest from Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai and they want to come out now and have a look around," says the owner of the largest semi-contiguous cropping aggregation to be offered in Australia’s history.

The Wanbao Mozambique rice farm, the largest of its kind undertaken by China in Africa, aims to develop 20,000 ha of farmland and contract with farmers in surrounding areas to grow crops over another 80,000 ha.

China's foreign investment and cooperation in agriculture must recognize the "deep changes in the domestic and foreign environment," "seize opportunities" and "take the initiative" according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs officials .

A Procuradoria Geral do Estado (PGE) da Bahia afirma que está investigando se terras atribuídas a uma empresa vinculada a um fundo patrimonial (endowment) de Harvard estão em situação irregular.

Algeria plans to offer foreign investors concessions for farm land for the first time, according to an official document, as the oil producer seeks to boost food output and reduce reliance on imports.

A new report by ASO provides an assessment of the Karuturi project and the other land deals that the Ethiopian government has promoted in Gambela over the past decade through its land policies

China’s agricultural investment abroad grew more than tenfold in less than a decade and parallels its emergence as a major importer of agricultural commodities. But the focus of investments are shifting from farming and raw materials to business acquisition.

En diciembre de 2008, cuando subió el precio del caucho, los pueblos indígenas bunong de la comuna Bousra se despertaron una mañana con la novedad de que unas 10,000 hectáreas cercanas de bosques y miir habían sido concedidas por el gobierno a un grupo económico, SOCFIN

Connu pour ses stratégies offensives voire ses coups de force, l'industriel breton Vincent Bolloré se retrouve désormais en position défensive sur fond de soupçons de corruption en Afrique, après avoir aussi vu ses méthodes remises en question ailleurs.

The prosecutor’s office in the state of Bahia said it’s reviewing allegations that a company linked to Harvard’s endowment isn’t the rightful owner of land in the region, and it’s determining whether to sue to reclaim the titles.

Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Group is close to a 200 million Euro deal (US$245 million) to acquire Agricost Braila, the largest farm in Europe.

The Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold three properties in Lachlan Valley in New South Wales to two overseas investors – MERS Global Investments and Optifarm

Emmanuel Elong, the farmer who came from Cameroon specifically for the lawsuit filed by the Bolloré group against France 2, tells of the psychological pressure you are under when you confront a major group in Africa.

Sosucam, détenue à 74% par le Français Somdiaa, a une superficie agricole actuelle de 25 000 ha.

Charges against Pastor Omot Agwa, an indigenous land rights defender from the Gambella region of Ethiopia are finally dropped by an Ethiopian court.

Fraudes cartoriais, expulsão de trabalhadores rurais e desmatamento ilegal marcam a história da área de 140 mil hectares do Oeste na Bahia comprada por fundo da universidade americana.