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.

Investigation finds Rabobank acquired farmlands in Romania that had been sold without the knowledge or consent of the farmer owners.

Nasako Besingi de l’ONG SEFE a été condamné ce jour par le tribunal de Mundemba. Il faisait l’objet d’une série de plaintes pour diffamation introduites par la société SGSOC, une filière de la société américaine Herakles Farms

Nasako Besingi of the NGO Struggle to Economize our Future Environment (SEFE) was sentenced today for defamation by the SGSOC Company, a subsidiary of Herakles Farms of the US.

La holding belge s’était lancée sur le marché boursier d’Alternex Paris et Bruxelles pour financer son projet de création d’une exploitation industrielle de 3 000 hectares de cacao en Côte d’Ivoire.

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.

Journal of Peasant Studies issue focusing on agrarian social movements in Brazil, includes struggles for land.

Le gouvernement français vient d'accueillir le groupe Bolloré - dont les filiales sont accusées de pratiquer l'accaparement de terres en Afrique - parmi le très select club des "sponsors" pollueurs de la COP21.

Ethiopian authorities should drop charges and release three local activists charged under repressive anti-terrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security, say six international organisations.

Series of video clips by filmmaker Kalyanee Mam explore the social and environmental issues related to deforestation, land grabbing, industrial agriculture, and overfishing in Cambodia.

Investors have turned to farmland as part of a sweeping push into physical assets — everything from lumber, hotels and apartments to parking meters, bridges and highways.

Au Congo, des investisseurs malaisiens prévoient un investissement de 350 milliards de francs Cfa dans un projet agro-industriel.

New TIAA-CREF fund will invest in “high quality farmland assets” across North America, South America, Australia and parts of Europe with a focus on major grain exporting regions.

Farmers from drought-parched California are finding greener pastures in the Pacific Northwest -- and so are buyers from China.

‘Land grabs’ stands tall as a major development challenge in Africa. Millions of agriculture dependent families are forced to leave their fertile lands for multinational companies who occupy the lands for business purposes.

Cette étude documente les répercussions de l'accaparement des terres sur les moyens de subsistance et sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l'Ouest.

"Les gens parlent d'accaparement des terres [mais] je dirais que la Socapalm a restitué des terres à l'État camerounais," déclare Michel Deumega Noulowe, PCA de la Socapalm

La Via Campesina denounces the International Land Coalition for calling for mitigating the negative effects of landgrabbing, rather than insisting that landgrabbing be stopped.

Les appétits fonciers en cours pourraient plonger le Sénégal dans l’insécurité alimentaire, la pauvreté, mais surtout la violence. Sud Quotidien fait le point de la situation.

China is on the hunt for new food sources to feed its one and a half billion people and its central government has ordered $3 trillion be spent securing food and farmland overseas.

State-controlled Felda Global Ventures Bhd (FGV)said it needs more land bank and has been looking outside Malaysia for some time to boost its portfolio, including Africa, Myanmar and Indonesia.

Across Southeast Asia, a dramatic reconfiguring of land rights, livelihoods and economies is underway, with profound and disturbing implications for the future.

The hard reality is that there is a sound business case to be made for commercial interests to aggressively attempt to control the very foundation of the food chain, the land itself.

À l’heure même où ce clinquant numéro de CQFD sort des presses, les sinistres actionnaires du groupe Bolloré sortent de leur assemblée générale annuelle et des milliers de paysans sortent d’une série d’occupations de plantations en Afrique de l’Ouest.

India can ill-afford to be tainted by accusations of complicity in land deals that disadvantage the people of Africa given the role it sees for itself in promoting co-operation among countries in the south.