NGOs launch collective call for revamp of World Bank’s private sector arm amid accusations it has ‘lost control of the way money is spent’ and is funding land grabs in Honduras and Cambodia.

Des mouvements sociaux et organisations de la société civile, engagés dans la défense des droits à la terre et à l'eau, sont réuni-e-s lors du Forum Social Mondial à Tunis en mars 2015 afin d’élargir leur convergence.

Social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defence of the rights to land and water met at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to continue their dialogue with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence

As the world reaches the limits of available farmland and water for irrigation, countries are turning to international markets to meet domestic food demand. New analysis explores trends and consequences in the international food market.

Alors que Senhuile annonce avoir augmenté son capital à la vitesse lumière, ses pratiques d'une autre époque précarisent les travailleurs, font monter la colère des populations du Ndiael où sont implantées ses terres arables, et rendent à peine service à l'économie sénégalaise.

The approach taken by Ethiopia and India to reaching development goals and fulfilling environmental promises by leasing or buying large tracts of fertile land affects land, water and indigenous people.

People & Power investigates the environmental consequences of palm oil plantations in equatorial Africa.

Les villageois de Tangana ont peur d'être chassé d'un espace qu'ils ont amenagé pour la culture du riz par le projet Malibya

Les investissement chinois dans l'agroalimentaire montent en puissance. Objectif: assurer l'indépendance alimentaire du pays.

Ce 2 février, Journée Internationale des Zones Humides, une campagne dénommée "SOS-NDIAEL" est lancée par le Réseau Nord pour la Protection Environnement Mondial.

"Agribusiness is a priority sector for CDC and this facility is an important step in Feronia's long-term financing."

Au Burkina, certains invoquent la propriété étatique de la terre pour espérer un meilleur accès à la terre quand d’autres considèrent que si la terre appartient à l’État, c’est qu’elle appartient à tous.

Produire une huile de palme "durable" est-il possible ?

A Noble Agri subsidiary oil palm plantation in Papua, PT Pusaka Agro Lestari's permit has been revoked by local government following several complaints by local civil and religious leaders about negative effects of PT PAL’s plantation on Kamoro people in Mimika Regency.

The draft National Land Use Policy has created widespread discontent in Myanmar. It is only positive for those who may seek to acquire land for business purposes and have security in their investments.

Talks with CITIC follow July agreement on business alliance between Itochu, Japan’s third-largest trading company, and the CP Group in an attempt to expand food supply in the world’s most populous region.

Japanese NGOs’ fact-finding on ProSAVANA, an agricultural development program implemented in Mozambique by Japanese Official Development Assistance.

L'exemple de la ferme des Milles vaches s'inscrit dans une tendance qui s'est accélérée ces dernières années : la "financiarisation" de la terre en France, avec l'arrivée d'investisseurs étrangers, russes ou chinois, notamment dans le vignoble.

Large scale businesses like Wilmar risk being labeled land grabbers, but we don't have that in Nigeria, says Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established.

"Land consolidation is the only way,” Peter Beerents, chief executive officer of Dutch farmland investment firm Cibus Land Management Srl.

We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.

Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".

Ce rapport d'Actionaid analyse les investissements de l’entreprise sénégalo-italienne à Fanaye et Ndiael ces quatre dernières années

Oil palm development should never have been initiated in Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines

Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.

How did such a promising idea (which appeared to offer a textbook example of a win-win situation) fail?

This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has set up an interministerial panel to tackle the worsening problem of land grabs in the country, but NGOs say his own policies are fueling the crisis and need urgent revamp.

One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses.