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.

Český fond půdy hopes to make 2,000 individual land acquisitions a year.

Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, argues that the time has come for a more holistic discussion of land deals that places transfer of land in both the developed and developing worlds along the same continuous spectrum.

Four hundred subsistence farmers say sugar giant Illovo illegally took over 600 ha of their land in 1979. And they still want it back.

Farmland total returns tend to be uncorrelated with financial asset returns, offering genuine portfolio diversification for institutional investors.

Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

Le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations-Unies a approuvé hier le lancement du processus d’élaboration de nouvelles normes internationales contraignantes sur les entreprises multinationales et les droits humains.

UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.

Mayor of Sierra Leone's Kono City, Sahr Emerson Laminah, says the increasing rate of land-grabbing is a menace and nightmare in the district that has the potential for creating confusion in the country.

Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.

Dans un rapport dressé par l’Observatoire Tunisien de l’Economie sur les amendements au projet de nouveau code d’investissement, des anomalies criantes engagent à une néo-colonisation des terres agricoles de la Tunisie.

Untold millions of small farmers and indigenous people have been thrown off their land to make way for land grabs. With them gone and their land and water used to grow crops for export, local communities are going hungry and without water.

Wilmar International, one of the world’s largest oil palm companies, through its subsidiary, Biase Plantations Ltd acquired 5,561 hectares of land from the Cross River State government in 2011.

The excessive consumption and the transnational company’s need to keep expanding to increase corporate profits that are pushing the continuous expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.

Much of the palm oil we consume comes from Indonesia, where brutal methods are deployed against locals. One of the main suppliers says it is cleaning up its act, but has it really changed?

En partenariat avec SOS Faim et la COPAGEN, le CFSI publie une étude basée sur un cas d’accaparement de terres en Guinée.

Since 2007, a plantation company had been scheming to take over more than three-quarters of the Indigenous islanders’ ancestral land in the Aru islands of Indonesia.

La course aux hectares agricoles gagne la France.

As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.

CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.

Where the culprits were largely governments and authoritative bodies, now multinational governments are working with these entities to take lands and deprive local communities of critical resources.

The vast majority of the 28 South African farmers who entered into lease agreements on land on Malolo have not started their farming operations yet.

Des paysans et des éleveurs du Sénégal exigent la fin d’une transaction foncière qui menace les vies de 9000 personnes. Soutenez leur action !

Farmers and herders from Senegal demand the scrapping of a land deal that threatens the lives of 9,000 people. Please join their action now!

Companies with bad environmental records are increasingly turning to a little-known nonprofit called TFT to make sure they meet commitments to improve their practices. It remains to be seen if this is just a PR move.