Reading between the lines, the Durban BRICS resolutions will support favoured corporations' extraction and land-grab strategies and confirm the financing of both African land-grabbing and the extension of neo-colonial infrastructure through a new 'BRICS Bank'

Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.

Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed

With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.

We commit ourselves to opposing the ProSavana Programme so that neo-colonial land grabs will come to an end.

La Via Campesina appelle à une journée de mobilisation massive le 17 Avril, journée Internationale des Luttes Paysannes, pour reprendre possession de notre système alimentaire

This historic divestment marks the first full divestment made by Vanderbilt in response to student pressure

There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.

DEG's investment will be used to acquire 5,000 hectares of agricultural land, expanding irrigation systems, cultivating rice for the first time and producing timber sustainably.

The food crisis and recent droughts have confirmed that controlling the source of food—the land and the water that flows under or by it—are equally or even more important.

As land and water become scarce, as the earth’s temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging, writes Lester Brown

This article calls into question the depth and effectiveness of a regulatory approach arguing that problems underlying large-scale land deals are so deep constituting socio-institutional problems of power asymmetry, exclusion and invisiblization, than just investment externalities or regulatory challenges.

According to the data presented by international non-profit Rights and Resource Initiative, Indian companies have acquired 63,000 sq km land, an area almost twice the size of Kerala, in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia.

he Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) against a rogue palm oil company and has ordered it to immediately stop clearing customary forests in Indonesian Borneo.

This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.

Le droit d’occupation et d’utilisation des sols par Olam n’est pas juridiquement prouvé puisque le ministère des Forêts leur a attribué des permis d’exploration. Comment est-on passé d’un permis d’exploration à une occupation du sol ?

The wave of fund investment in farmland has reached only a fraction of its potential, even after hitting up to $40bn, with the potential to hit $1,000bn as it gains a "natural home" in portfolios.

Invitation to participate to the Rangelands Observatory - to enhance informed and participatory decision-making on land use and investments in rangelands.

Invitation a participer à l’Observatoire des Terres des Parcours, pour promouvoir une prise de décisions avisée et participative sur les utilisations des terres et les investissements dans les parcours

As losses from Karuturi's Ethiopian farm operations mount, over 3,000 workers from the company's flower farm in Kenya down their tools to protest non-payment of their salaries and poor working conditions.

In large-scale land acquisitions, local communities are often insufficiently compensated, under-consulted, and left with their livelihoods threatened.

Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.

A two-decade slump in Japan’s real estate prices, an incomplete land registry and lax rules on buying forest with water rights are attracting investors led by China.

"It seems incongruous that Herakles Farms claims it is trying to improve the lives of local people but then there is scarcely any consultation with those same people over what is to be done with the land they depend on for their livelihoods, nor any serious acknowledgment of the risks posed to local environments and the global climate," writes Kumi Naidoo

Only legal recognition of commons as the communal property of communities is sufficient to afford real protection, writes Liz Alden Wily

National Peasants' Union of Mozambique condemns trilateral agricultural project between Brazil, Japan and Mozambique for not taking into consideration the demands, dreams and basic concerns of peasants

Union Nationale des Paysans de Mozambique condamne le projet triangulaire entre le Mozambique, le Japon et le Brésil pour ne pas prendre en considération les demandes, aspirations et besoins des paysans.

The New South Wales Farmers Association, in Australia, has switched policies to back much tighter restrictions on foreign companies and investment funds buying Australian farmland.

Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.

It is important to unpack what land grabbing really involves if we are to understand what is really happening.