La Synaparcam, une association de riverains des plantations Socapalm au Cameroun, réagit à une réponse de la Socfin publiée par la Business and Human Rights Research Centre.

El Boletín Nyéléni 60 llama la atención para una nueva oleada de «acaparamientos verdes» impulsada por los mercados del carbono y la biodiversidad - cerca del 20% de los acuerdos actuales de compraventa de tierras a gran escala están vinculados a la bioeconomía. También destaca el programa de FMI de privatización de tierras públicas en Siri Lanka.

A civil society group closely monitoring developments at the 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation welcomed the call for a temporary suspension of its activities.

Swiss-based Harvest Group SA, through its subsidiary Harvest Agro Holding, has announced an investment of half a billion dollars to develop as much as 300,000 hectares of pastureland across rural Kazakhstan into productive agricultural land

Officials of UK-based Rainforest Builder say they will restore 2,000 hectares of degraded forest—double what they planted last year.

Canarias negocia un acuerdo con la multinacional emiratí Al Dahra Agricultural Company, que según organizaciones "Se trata de un modelo que entrega tierras y agua, escasas y disputadas en un archipélago que ya depende de 90% de importaciones"

La lutte contre le changement climatique et les politiques de transition énergétique génèrent, paradoxalement, de nouvelles formes d’accaparement de terres.

Derrière des achats discrets, parfois opaques, se joue un bouleversement majeur du modèle agricole breton.

A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.

Groups say the agropole project is not in line with food sovereignty and call for it to be halted, for the memorandum of understanding with Israeli LR Group to be cancelled and for the law on agricultural aggregation to be repealed.

African Food Security, a New York-based agribusiness firm, has launched a large-scale farming initiative in Somaliland and says it has commenced feasibility studies and soil assessments.

Le gouvernement congolais a annoncé la fin du contrat emphytéotique de cession des terres agricoles au Rwanda qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. "L’accord ne concernait pas une société rwandaise, mais une société de droit congolais dont les actionnaires sont basés au Rwanda", un représentant du gouvernment a précisé

Le gouvernement malgache a signé un memorandum avec le groupe israélien LR Group prévoyant la création d’un agropole de 10.000 ha pour la culture de riz, de maïs et de soja. Des organisations de la société civile demandent son annulation, ainsi que l’abrogation de la loi sur l’agrégation agricole.

Le vice-président vénézuélien a affirmé le soutien de son pays aux entreprises vietnamiennes en indiquant que 100.000 ha de terres agricoles ont été spécifiquement réservés aux investisseurs vietnamiens

The Cerrado, a wooded savannah in Brazil, remains a hotspot for deforestation as companies make the most of laws allowing more deforestation than in the Amazon

Cambodian Banana Agricultural General Co Ltd (CBA), a Chinese enterprise, harvests Cavendish bananas from 500 hectares of plantations in Cambodia, and aims to expand on another 200 hectares by 2026.

Venezuela’s Vice President told a delegation from Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture that his government has prepared 100,000ha of agricultural land for Vietnamese investors

Indonesia plans to develop a oil palm plantation in Boven Digoel regency, South Papua province, to strengthen economic resilience and energy independence, the Defence Ministry said.

Más violencia por la empresa SOCAPALM y la fuerza policial contra el pueblo indígena Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) que intenta recuperar parte de sus tierras. Desde 2010 la filial del grupo europeo Socfin se ha adueñado de más del 90% de la tierra de la comunidad, 3700 hectáreas, transformadas en plantaciones de palma.

The "Green Pakistan Initiative" is fast tracking Gulf agribusiness deals. Saudi & UAE firms are investing billions in Pakistani farmland, while local communities warn of land grabs & water shortages.

Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the world’s largest beet sugar factory, owned by UAE investors.

New report points to a surge in demand for land in the Global South, where large tracts of land are suitable for carbon projects, but land tenure systems are often insecure or informal.

L'accumulation d'énormes quantités de terres par un petit groupe de propriétaires fonciers alimente les inégalités et la crise climatique, selon un nouveau rapport qui appelle à une redistribution des terres et à des réformes fiscales mondiales pour inverser la tendance

"Whereas the Bank’s push for large-scale agribusiness is global, the African continent is its central target"

The 10 largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report. This accumulation fuels human rights abuse, inequalities, and environmental destruction, and underlines the need for redistributive policies.

Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs tells UAE business leaders that "with 36 million hectares of arable land, there is immense potential for agribusiness and agricultural transformation” in her country

Un mémorandum d’entente signé le 25 mai entre le gouvernement de Madagascar et l’entreprise israélienne LR Group pour la production de riz, de maïs et de soja à travers quatre des 23 régions du pays passe mal.

Australian farmers aren’t the only ones cheering the rocketing price of almonds and beef from the simmering trade tensions between the US and China – a cohort of fund managers is also in the money.

Durian farmers in Malaysia’s Pahang state are preparing for a legal fight to protect farmland they say is being seized by a newly-established company without proper authority.

Some villagers say they are being pressured to give up fertile land traditionally used for subsistence farming for a project called the Malipati Agrihub, with no clear benefit or consent from the broader community.