Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership

Cochrane’s and Andrews’ The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike provides a timely and necessary update of the land rush “a decade after the 2007/08 commodity price spike.”

"Madagascar's development policies are focused on the promotion of the extractive and agro-industrial sectors which lead to a recurrent land grabbing issue,” says CRAAD-OI

The government of Malaysia is open to lease idle land - owned land, government land or reserve land - to the private sector to generate economic activities.

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

Elite Agro, which farms tens of thousands of hectares in various parts of the world, may invest in the large-scale production of corn and soybean in Guyana, as well as seafood

Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014

A surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has also set alarm bells ringing on and off the continent.

The recent arrests of staff of a Ugandan civil society organization, the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), have been criticized as an attempt to stifle defenders of human rights and the environment in the country. AFIEGO is one of several organizations involved in defending the Bugoma Forest, which Hoima Sugar Ltd. is seeking to clear large portions of it for a sugarcane plantation.

Africa’s Catholic bishops have criticized the appropriation of land, natural resources and other economic assets by private companies and called on national governments to show greater concern for local community rights and needs.

Trade in agricultural services is a practical option to meet Chinese firms' demand to invest in overseas agricultural projects and pursue "going global" strategies, says Chinese official

Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar "come together in solidarity and fraternity to amplify the voices of African communities struggling for land justice"

Villagers in Cameroon have been going through a night mare to find what to eat on a daily basis after their lands were taken for a Chinese rice project over a decade ago.

GRAIN reflects on a new report on large scale land acquisitions by the Land Matrix Initiative.

16 former workers of Golden Veroleum Liberia received their severance benefits following a settlement with the company, one year and eight months after they filed a complaint with the labor Office over their illegal dismissals.

The use of “transfer pricing” to avoid taxation is common among multinationals operating in Africa, depriving low-income governments of badly needed revenue.

A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for Tax Justice has accused Belgian-French multinational Socfin, which operates rubber and palm oil plantations across West Africa, of shifting profits from Africa to Switzerland. The use of “transfer pricing” to avoid taxation is common among multinationals operating in Africa, depriving low-income governments of badly needed revenue.

President Irfaan Ali and his delegation wooed investors in the UAE to take advantage of opportunities in large-scale agriculture, including mega-farms, to support the UAE's food security agenda

A Madagascar, alors que beaucoup de citoyens vivent dans l’angoisse, une nouvelle version de la loi sur les investissements, autorisant les sociétés à capitaux majoritairement étrangers à acheter des terrains à Madagascar, serait en cours de finalisation.

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.

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups from 70 countries sign letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture.

Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute, talks about the Western investors profiting off of oil palm plantations accused of human rights violations and environmental abuses.

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.

More than a decade since the surge in large-scale land acquisitions worldwide, many land deals remain in limbo. They nonetheless have far-reaching consequences for those who depend on land as foundational to life.

Beginning with an initial farm development in Senegal, African Agriculture, a United States-based Africa-focused company, has embarked on a journey to deliver protein to the world.

The conflict between the communities of Bolanga and Yambienenne and the palm oil company PHC continues to escalate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In de Democratische Republiek Congo heeft AFD (De Franse ontwikkelingshulp, vert.) gedurende acht jaar een palmolieplantage gefinancierd waarvan de beheerders en het beveiligingsbedrijf beschuldigd worden van moord en landroof. Totdat ze zich er uiteindelijk aan het einde van 2020 van distancieerden.

The rice farm of KPL, a subsidiary of Guernsey-based Agrica Limited, was once touted as the best large scale commercial farming partnership with smallholder farmers until it defaulted in 2019.

The Italian firm Eni has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Congo to produce castor beans on 150,000 ha for biofuel

The Agricultural Products Industrial Park, Port and New City in Kilwa, Tanzania involves 80,000 acres of land, and the companies have obtained a land use certificate from the Tanzania government.