It is difficult to overstate the degree to which the IMF and World Bank’s neoliberal economic policies contribute to extreme vulnerability for farmers and peasants.

La multinationale indienne qui s'était fait un nom dans le secteur des fleurs coupées au niveau mondial et a récemment acquis plus de 300 000 ha en Éthiopie pour produire des denrées alimentaires à destination des marchés étrangers, poursuit son déclin douloureux et généralisé.

US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals

“The destruction and grabbing of resources from peasants and poor people have intensified and if we are to succeed in defending our land, territory and our very future, we need to come together and identify clearly the kind of Agrarian Reform we are looking for and the strategy for which we achieve it.”

The level and manner of foreign investment in Australian agriculture is sounding alarm bells amid growing concern that the nation's own food security could be compromised.

Land has been the play-thing of centralising authoritarians throughout Ethiopia's recent history.

Joining the neo-colonial bandwagon, Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food at the cost of locals

AN extraordinary new process has been at work in the past few years: the aggressive entry of Indian corporations into the markets for agricultural land in Africa, writes Jayati Gosh

The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.

Intentar compensar la ausencia de legitimidad de estos negocios con tierras haciendo que los inversionistas se adhieran a unos cuantos principios es una estafa.

These ‘food pirates’ come with bags full of foreign direct investment and are moving swiftly where land is available, investing in crops that can be shipped back home.

"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.

As interest in transnational land acquisition for food production grows, the importance of legal customary tenure recognition becomes more apparent.

Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.

A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs

"In the conditions of the current food crisis, development of 20 million hectares of Russian agricultural land, unused since 1991, could be re-launched," says Russia's president

Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.

Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.

After years investing in farms overseas, the Saudi government is now stepping up efforts to attract foreign investors to its domestic agriculture sector

Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Local farmers say that their wells have dried up since since an Emirati alfalfa farm moved in.

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.

The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.

There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

As the climate emergency gets more acute and devastating everyday, we can’t waste more time waiting for the decisive actions required to end the ravages caused by industrial agriculture in Brazil.

Comunidade tradicional do oeste baiano relata intimidações e ameaças relacionadas à ‘grilagem verde’ do seu território; investigação da Repórter Brasil revela conexões entre a Agrícola Xingu, uma das envolvidas na disputa, com fornecedores globais do grão

Speaking at Dubai Expo 2020, Tanzania's Minister for Agriculture says his government will accord full support to investors because Tanzania has a large and fertile land for agricultural investment.

The EU is trying to move soya production from Brazil to eastern Europe where big conglomerates are buying up fertile land in the country, depleting soils, planting illegal GMOs and polluting fresh water sources.

The heavily forested Sangha region in the Republic of Congo is almost entirely occupied by three concessions, including one held by the palm oil company Eco-Oil Energie SA.