Senator Rounds noted on his website that this new legislation will also bar investment in US agribusiness from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

Conservationists welcome interim injunction to stop farm development by Tanzania oil company they say threatens migration of 10 million fruit bats

An administrative court in West Papua Province ruled in favour of a district head who had revoked permits allowing more than a dozen palm oil companies to operate in Indigenous forest areas and turn them into plantations.

WRM Bulletin presents 5 perspectives from a coalition of movements, organizations and social pastoral bodies that have worked for decades in defense of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes and their peoples and communities.

The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.

Big financial institutions rake in profits bankrolling the destruction of the land, homes and livelihoods of communities who have safeguarded their forests for generations

À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à Rome, 280 groupes de 70 pays ont signé une lettre dénonçant leur financement de l'expansion de l'agriculture industrielle, de la destruction de l'environnement et du contrôle du système alimentaire par les entreprises.

The Indonesian government has stripped back rules protecting the environment to expedite a plan to ramp up food production through a “food estate” programme. A firm run by allies of the Minister of Defence has positioned itself to profit from the programme and is seeking $2 billion in investment.

In a letter laying out 6 clear demands, the groups call on TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025 and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.

Dangote Group has taken 70,000 ha, Flour Mills of Nigeria has 20,000, Olam Farm has 9,000 and Azman has 14,000, so from our target of 270,000 hectres, we have given out nearly a 100,000 already, says state Attorney General

For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.

The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of communities living on or near peatland converted to commercial agriculture. It is also permitting the widescale destruction of one of the world’s most important carbon sinks, Human Rights Watch said.

Producers say their supply chains are green and sustainable, but prosecutors cite a long record of land grabbing, deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations.

The Sierra Leone Land Alliance has released a report critical of the situation land ownership and acquisition in the country, with particular emphasis on the Western area.

An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.

Contrairement aux fervents partisans du légalisme, en matière de foncier rural, il vaut mieux décrocher d’abord la licence sociale que de se prévaloir d’une sécurité juridico-administrative matérialisée par une délibération (ou notification) du Conseil municipal.

Au Sri Lanka, une circulaire protégeant des milliers d’hectares de forêt pourrait être levée. Officiellement, le but est destiné à soutenir les petits paysans. Mais ce projet s’inscrit dans un contexte moins glorieux où l’on retrouve des multinationales US bien décidées à privatiser aux quatre coins du monde des terres qui échappent à leur appétit vorace.

In the Brazilian Cerrado, on the nation’s agricultural frontier, rapid deforestation by expanding agribusiness, depletion of water resources, and an unsympathetic government are further complicating the resolution of the long-time struggle over land rights.

While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon, pressure over their traditional lands is increasing as grileiros –individuals who illegally seize land – sense an opportunity to exploit the crisis.

When Gulf nations face food, security, and water scarcity issues, one response is to seek lucrative agricultural investments in fertile African lands. Yet, while such deals can bring benefits to the countries involved, there are also sizeable risks

The ANZ bank has agreed to provide a financial package to Cambodian families forcibly displaced by a sugar company the Australian bank loaned money to in 2011.

In the next decade, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands. A land justice advocate sees a timely opportunity to counteract entrenched income inequality and systemic racism.

Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive industries, but ranged against this is the swift growth of an eco-feminist movement that regards protection of the environment as essential to the protection of human rights.

Representatives of 24 indigenous groups from 15 provinces of Cambodia urge the government to solve their outstanding land dispute and expedite the process of registering their collective farmland to prevent private companies grabbing it.

Selon le Prof Ibrahima Arouna Diallo, le coordinateur du réseau NELGA, la vallée du fleuve Sénégal "est un grenier de plus en plus menacé avec les investissements privés, les accaparements et la saturation des terres".

RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.

The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county

Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous peoples of Papua. Anthropologist Sophie Chao has studied the often fraught relationship between Papuans and plantation firms, and the mechanisms through which indigenous people are compelled to give up their land.