À Madagascar, plusieurs milliers d’hectares de terres sont convoités par une entreprise étrangère à côté de Tuléar, par un dignitaire du régime dans l’Itasy, et par l’État malgache à la périphérie de la capitale Antananarivo.

Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations that could supply multinational firms’ thirst for palm oil and put the wealth into the community, says SDI

Indonesian government have alleged that permits underpinning a multi-billion dollar plantation project in Papua were falsified. The land is being opened up by investors whose identity is hidden behind anonymously owned companies, as part of a plan to develop an oil palm plantation almost twice the size of London in the remote region.

The Philippines, Brazil and Colombia ranked as the deadliest countries for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people and land rights activists.

PSP Investments has been doubling down on capital commitments in Australia’s ag sector – and particularly in almonds and water recently.

Open letter to the heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Brazil’s Federal Police have launched an investigation, dubbed “Operation Far West,” to crack down on an alleged massive land grab by an agribusiness collective in western Bahia, one of Brazil’s largest soy producing regions.

A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading Canada into a new era of speculation on farmland -- one where private companies not traditionally involved in agriculture are acquiring tracks of land.

Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been accused of a series of environmental and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At a briefing to discuss the numbers, Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles said the rise in deforestation showed the need for a new strategy to combat illegal logging, mining and land grabbing, which he said were to blame for the increase in deforestation.

If we are to take the matter of quid pro quos seriously, we should take the measure of over US$20 billion of aid forcing Ukraine to privatize its land and its economy for the profit of a few Western interests.

The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have reaffirmed their support for the Ukrainian government’s plans to lift a more than decade-long moratorium on the purchases of Ukrainian farmland

RSPO member companies and their associates account for three-quarters of the fire hotspots detected in the plantation concessions of the top 30 groups in the first nine months of 2019.

With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.

Cross Pacific Investments, which is backed by the Buratovich family of Argentina, has now spent more than $43 million on top end Australian land in the last few months, totalling just over 540,000 hectares.

Kilombero Plantations Limited in Tanzania joins a long list of failed big agriculture projects in Africa in recent years, including Agrisol and Sun Biofuels in Tanzania; Karuturi in Kenya and Ethiopia; Nile Trading in South Sudan; Senhuile in Senegal, and Bukanga Lonzo in the Democratic Republic of Congo

In recent weeks, Indonesia has seen its largest mass protests since the “people power” movement that forced President Suharto to step down in 1998. Among a variety of pro-democracy demands, the protesters want lawmakers to scrap a controversial bill governing land use in the country.Critics say the bill could be used to imprison indigenous and other rural citizens for defending their lands against incursions by private companies.

Nearly 88 percent of Gabon is covered in forests, but NGOs fear that the development of oil palm plantations threatens this viable resource. Local communities accuse SOTRADER, a public-private partnership between the government and the multinational Olam, of land grabbing.

One year after palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) were called out for illegal deforestation, land grabbing, and the destruction of critical wildlife habitats, and many ongoing abuses later things on the ground don’t look much better.

A mansion in Melbourne's east, newly constructed units and more than 3,000 acres of Tasmanian farmland are among $17.3 million in property seized by authorities as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Chinese nationals.

Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.

Dans cet article accessible et instructif, Renaud Vivien du CADTM explique comment la Banque mondiale et le FMI ont imposé aux pays du Sud des politiques destructrices pour les économies locales au profit des multinationales.

Central Kalimantan provincial government in Indonesia agrees to cooperate with Elite Agro LLC of UAE to develop agriculture and plantation sector. As initial step, government will prepare 5,000 hectares of land for the agriculture project.

La campagna di sensibilizzazione #Buycott inizia il 4 agosto 2019, in reazione all'emergenza climatica denunciata da Antonio Gutierrez, segretario generale ONU. Partendo dalla descrizione del land grabbing, un manifesto programmatico per stare dalla parte dell'Ambiente, dicendo no ad agricoltura e allevamenti intensivi.

The Dutch newspaper Trouw identified at least seven projects that FMO funded in which the companies involved were connected to murder, intimidation, environmental damage, arbitrary arrests and land grabbing.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company signed an agreement to join forces in the search of investment projects in the Russian agricultural sector

Overall, nearly $5b of sensitive land has changed hands in New Zealand through the Overseas Investment Office since the Labour-led government was formed.

According to the Kerala press, Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director Karuturi Global Ltd, has been arrested for fraud.

Eighty indigenous farmers are suing the Bolloré group and its subsidiaries for having grabbed their ancestral lands

Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.