« Les terres qui nous appartenaient prennent de plus en plus de valeur. Nous aimerions les récupérer afin de pouvoir nous-mêmes les vendre ou les louer, mais le gouvernement ne veut rien savoir : il agit comme s’il était Dieu » dénonce M. Charles Peter Mayiga, porte-parole du Buganda, le plus important des royaumes traditionnels que compte l’Ouganda.

Pambazuka News spoke to Anuradha Mittal, Jeff Furman and Frederic Mousseau about what prompted their research on large-scale investments in land in Africa and what they discovered.

An interview with Mamy Rakotondrainibe, an activist with the Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, about the struggle against land grabbing in Madagascar.

Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.

Principles for responsible agriculture investment are stock templates, designed to deflect the fallout from a growing number of media reports of land deals between investors and governments.

In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia will continue to invest in acquiring farmland abroad as part of their strategy to secure food supplies.

« Un étranger s’installe au Brésil et peut acheter la quantité de terre qu’il veut. Dans le même temps, il y a 4,2 millions de familles qui n’ont pas accès à la terre, c’est-à-dire plus de 12 millions de personnes, » signale Gilberto Portes

Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines

Los principios del BM, que serían totalmente voluntarios, intentan distraer del hecho de que la crisis alimentaria global de hoy en día con la cifra récord de más de mil millones de personas sufriendo hambre, no será resuelta por la agricultura industrial a gran escala que van a aplicar prácticamente todos los inversionistas que están adquiriendo tierra.

نقول لا للمبادئ المعلنة من طرف البنك الدولي التي تهم الاستثمارات “المسؤولة” من طرف الشركات الزراعية الغذائية.

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

Most wealthy Arab nations are still "reluctant" to invest heavily in farming projects in fertile member states for political and security reasons, says AOAD, a key Arab League organisation.

Forecast reports on scarcity predict global actors will move in on dwindling resources. Governments are taking notice, and so should the public, Vivian Fritschi writes for ISN Security Watch.

The ministerial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation met in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, last week, attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and representatives of more than 300 Chinese companies.

Foreigners and foreign companies will also not be allowed to own land in the country but can acquire leaseholds not exceeding 99 years, the draft says.

What we are witnessing in countries like Ethiopia today is an extreme form of the banana republic syndrome.

How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests

What can possibly be wrong about planting trees? This investigation digs deeper into a conflict unfolding in southern Madagascar, between the local community and an Italian multinational. As similar green projects multiply, this case highlights a critical challenge.

This article and podcast tell the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.

A military-owned company will lease the land for 30 years through joint ventures and allocate it to investors for farming projects

Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.

The Egyptian Countryside Development Company and the Italian Ambassador to Egypt discussed cooperation and strategies to attract Italian investments to the lands and sectors of the 630,000 ha agricultural project.

The Agriculture Investment Conference intends to lure Malawian emerging mega farmers to invest in commercial farming by introducing them to various profitable agricultural value chains and the respective off-taker markets.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.

After the Ondo State government allocated SAO Agro thousands of hectares in the Oluwa Forest Reserve for an oil palm plantation, it moved into the forest with full force and left trails of blood and devastation.

The Farmland for Farmers Act, in banning corporations from purchasing farmland, improves the chances for beginning, small-scale producers to access land and produce food for themselves and their communities.

By bringing together over 600 small landowners, all of whom are partners in the company, Hondupalma defies the prevalent model of large family-owned palm oil companies.

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.