Talks with CITIC follow July agreement on business alliance between Itochu, Japan’s third-largest trading company, and the CP Group in an attempt to expand food supply in the world’s most populous region.

Japanese NGOs’ fact-finding on ProSAVANA, an agricultural development program implemented in Mozambique by Japanese Official Development Assistance.

L'exemple de la ferme des Milles vaches s'inscrit dans une tendance qui s'est accélérée ces dernières années : la "financiarisation" de la terre en France, avec l'arrivée d'investisseurs étrangers, russes ou chinois, notamment dans le vignoble.

Large scale businesses like Wilmar risk being labeled land grabbers, but we don't have that in Nigeria, says Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

Le pape se dit préoccupé par les paysans arrachés de leurs terres, pour d’autres raisons que la guerre ou les désastres naturels : accaparement des terres par quelques-uns, la déforestation, l’appropriation de l’eau, usage de pesticides inappropriés…

The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established.

"Land consolidation is the only way,” Peter Beerents, chief executive officer of Dutch farmland investment firm Cibus Land Management Srl.

Conversation with Maria Antonelli about the main drivers and implications of land transactions around the world, with a particular focus both on the role of EU.

We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.

Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".

Ce rapport d'Actionaid analyse les investissements de l’entreprise sénégalo-italienne à Fanaye et Ndiael ces quatre dernières années

Oil palm development should never have been initiated in Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines

Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.

How did such a promising idea (which appeared to offer a textbook example of a win-win situation) fail?

Les terres agricoles ne sont pas les seules cibles de puissants intérêts privés, de grandes entreprises ou de gros investisseurs. Littoraux, mangroves ou récifs coralliens sont aussi convoités.

This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.

Les populations riveraines des plantations de la Société des Palmeraies du Cameroun mènent une bataille tous azimuts pour faire respecter leurs droits violés impunément.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has set up an interministerial panel to tackle the worsening problem of land grabs in the country, but NGOs say his own policies are fueling the crisis and need urgent revamp.

One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses.

Český fond půdy hopes to make 2,000 individual land acquisitions a year.

Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, argues that the time has come for a more holistic discussion of land deals that places transfer of land in both the developed and developing worlds along the same continuous spectrum.

Four hundred subsistence farmers say sugar giant Illovo illegally took over 600 ha of their land in 1979. And they still want it back.

Farmland total returns tend to be uncorrelated with financial asset returns, offering genuine portfolio diversification for institutional investors.

A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.

Dans son livre intitulé "Le futur", Al Gore note que 48,8% des 120 millions d’hectares des terres arables que compte le Congo-Kinshasa sont déjà cédées aux étrangers.

Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

Le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations-Unies a approuvé hier le lancement du processus d’élaboration de nouvelles normes internationales contraignantes sur les entreprises multinationales et les droits humains.

« Je ne comprends pas pourquoi des centaines d’hectares sont donnés à des étrangers, alors que la priorité devrait être de rendre ces terres accessibles à nos agriculteurs » argue Doudou Sow, petit exploitant de la région de Saint-Louis, dans le nord du Sénégal.

Large scale commercial land deals at Nuanetsi Ranch, Chisumbanje and Chiadzwa are mired in corruption and end up impacting on livelihoods of communities.

UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.