Mayor of Sierra Leone's Kono City, Sahr Emerson Laminah, says the increasing rate of land-grabbing is a menace and nightmare in the district that has the potential for creating confusion in the country.

Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.

Dans un rapport dressé par l’Observatoire Tunisien de l’Economie sur les amendements au projet de nouveau code d’investissement, des anomalies criantes engagent à une néo-colonisation des terres agricoles de la Tunisie.

Untold millions of small farmers and indigenous people have been thrown off their land to make way for land grabs. With them gone and their land and water used to grow crops for export, local communities are going hungry and without water.

Wilmar International, one of the world’s largest oil palm companies, through its subsidiary, Biase Plantations Ltd acquired 5,561 hectares of land from the Cross River State government in 2011.

For the affected communities, this is a story of bad rather than “best practices”, an experience in which their “aspirations” as “stakeholders” were not at all addressed.

The excessive consumption and the transnational company’s need to keep expanding to increase corporate profits that are pushing the continuous expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.

Much of the palm oil we consume comes from Indonesia, where brutal methods are deployed against locals. One of the main suppliers says it is cleaning up its act, but has it really changed?

Le Maroc vient de lancer un appel d'offres de «partenariat public-privé autour des terres agricoles du domaine privé de l'Etat» destiné aussi bien aux petits agriculteurs qu’aux gros investisseurs marocains et étrangers.

En partenariat avec SOS Faim et la COPAGEN, le CFSI publie une étude basée sur un cas d’accaparement de terres en Guinée.

Since 2007, a plantation company had been scheming to take over more than three-quarters of the Indigenous islanders’ ancestral land in the Aru islands of Indonesia.

La course aux hectares agricoles gagne la France.

As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.

CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.

Where the culprits were largely governments and authoritative bodies, now multinational governments are working with these entities to take lands and deprive local communities of critical resources.

Déclaration d'organisations syndicales, mouvements paysans et mouvements sociaux réunis au Maroc dans le cadre du mouvement paysan international VIA CAMPESINA

The vast majority of the 28 South African farmers who entered into lease agreements on land on Malolo have not started their farming operations yet.

Des paysans et des éleveurs du Sénégal exigent la fin d’une transaction foncière qui menace les vies de 9000 personnes. Soutenez leur action !

Farmers and herders from Senegal demand the scrapping of a land deal that threatens the lives of 9,000 people. Please join their action now!

Companies with bad environmental records are increasingly turning to a little-known nonprofit called TFT to make sure they meet commitments to improve their practices. It remains to be seen if this is just a PR move.

Pour Yale Environment 360, le journaliste Fred Pearce dresse le profil de The Forest Trust (TFT), une petite firme de consultance qui aide ces grands groupes mal famés à rendre leurs pratiques plus durables

The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future, and are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist.

Forest clearance in the Congo basin from oil palm plantations and illegal logging has increased again since 2010 and the future is not rosy.

Envía un correo electrónico a la empresa Herakles Farms para reclamarle que deje de intimidar a Nasako Besingi y otros defensores de las comunidades locales y los bosques.

Des activistes camerounais au tribunal pour protestation pacifique contre un accapareur de terres de Wall Street

Write to Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its intimidation of Nasako Besingi and other defenders of local communities and forests.

Ces projets d’investisseurs sont toujours présentés aux populations rurales comme des projets de développement alors qu’ils ont des conséquences irrémédiables sur leur accès à la terre et sur leur environnement, détruisent les fondements de leurs sources de revenus et de leur organisation sociale.

Oil palm cultivation has wrecked habitats in South-East Asia. We must avoid a rerun if the crop takes off in its native Africa

Transport costs have made the country’s agriculture industry uncompetitive. But new infrastructure projects should transform the opportunities some have seen in land values.

Cofco makes offer for stake in Nidera, which produces soybeans on over 20,000 ha in Argentina.