Un nuevo informe desde el Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina alerta de la necesidad de proteger los ecosistemas mediante el uso eficiente del agua en beneficio de la agricultura de calidad y el uso coherente del suelo.

Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.

"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International.

The World Bank’s board has granted an East African agribusiness project called SAGCOT a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy — sparking fears among human rights advocates that the development lender is setting a precedent that weakens protections for indigenous peoples.

USAID is helping Ghana introduce guidelines for large-scale land transactions and address the dip in foreign direct investment that has arisen due to controversial land deals

As the indigenous people of Sorong, Nabire, Merauke and elsewhere in West Papua continue to resist oil palm expansion, there now appears to be some hope that the government is responding to President Joko Widodo’s call last month for a moratorium on all new permits.

Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens

Protest in Kazakh city of Atyrau comes as public fears grow that changes in the Land Code could allow sales of land to foreigners, though the government has said this will not happen.

We share the concerns of local communities regarding the growing interest in community land for corporate oil palm plantations.

Nous partageons les préoccupations des communautés devant l’intérêt des grandes entreprises pour les terres communautaires qu’elles veulent convertir en plantations de palmiers à huile.

Poursuivis en diffamation par le groupe Bolloré pour un article pointant le rôle de grandes entreprises françaises dans le phénomène d’accaparement des terres, Bastamag, son directeur de publication et ses journalistes ont été relaxés.

"Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana".

International and Mozambican organisations and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the ProSavana agribusiness programme.

Selon une étude du code d'investissement effectuée par l'Observatoire Tunisien de l'Économie, la souveraineté de l'État risque d'être menacée dans le domaine des terres agricoles.

This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, conducted by Simone Adler. Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.

Réponses du Groupe Bolloré et de la Socfin au Centre de ressources sur les entreprises et les droits de l'homme

Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and chimpanzee habitat.

Analytical evaluation of effect of current land grabbing policy indicates destabilization of livelihood assets of rural communities of Oromia and Southern Ethiopia.

La réforme foncière en cours au Sénégal cherche à doter le pays d’un outil qui puisse préserver la paix sociale de manière durable, en évitant certains pièges qui risquent de précipiter les terres entre les mains de l’agrobusiness.

Despite important legal victories, Anuak of Gambella continue to face land evictions and repression to clear their lands for foreign and domestic investors.

Reports about land-grabs in Africa often attack the corporations that stand to profit from such projects. But little is said of the international development banks that fund the projects.

Farmers and activists in Cameroon say a jail sentence handed down on an environmentalist who exposed land-grabbing by a multinational agro-industrial company, sends a dangerous signal to communities trying to protect their lands.

The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.

Réunion publique avec la Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau, Paris, le 10 decembre

A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.

Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.

Conference highlights the state of land grabbing in Africa, cases of resistance across the continent, as well as Church responses and its increasing engagement on issues of land grabbing.

La conférence offrira notamment un état des lieux de l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, des études de cas de résistances contre l’accaparement de terre ainsi que les réponses apportées par l’Église et son engagement croissant sur cette problématique.