Le chef indien guarani Ambrósio Vilhalva a été assassiné dimanche dernier, après avoir lutté pendant des décennies pour les droits territoriaux de sa tribu.

The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country

Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, confirms that one of its funds has sold its shareholding in a Vietnamese company accused of rights abuses in Laos and Cambodia.

The UK is the fourth largest investor in the world in African land - but how much does it have and what is it using it for?

Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture.

CDC will directly hold 27.5% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Feronia, a large-scale commercial farmland operator in the DRC

A controversial foreign investment to produce agrofuels for Europe on 20,000 ha in Senegal has angered communities and sparked violent clashes between peasants and the police.

With vast tracts of rich, black earth but antiquated infrastructure, Ukraine is attracting interest from Chinese companies hoping to meet their nation’s growing demand for grains and meat.

For the world’s people to have secure access to the quantity and quality of food needed for a decent life, the land grabs and the development of large, highly mechanized factory farms must stop.

One of the central figures of the Brazilian ‘sem-terra’ (without land) movement, Augusto Juncal, was in Maputo as a ‘heavyweight reinforcement’ for the campaign by Mozambican small-scale farmers against ProSavana.

Throughout Merauke Regency in the southern part of West Papua, a land controversially annexed by Indonesia 50 years ago, indigenous communities are having to learn fast how to resist corporate manipulations.

A new report claims that European demand for biofuels is not to blame for land acquisitions in poorer countries. But evidence suggests that the issue is more complex than the biofuels industry would like us to believe.

Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.

Statement published by Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps' website detailing the MOU it signed for agricultural projects in the Ukraine (with an excerpt translated to English).

Industrialised countries should do more to persuade companies that investing in, and working with, farmers makes more business sense than buying their land, says FAO senior economist

Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.

The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails

Saudi ag minister says his government is positioning itself as a facilitator for the Saudi private sector, seeking land and agricultural investments, and providing funds, credit, and logistics.

La forêt des Indiens isolés du Paraguay est en train d’être détruite pour faire place à l’élevage de bétail destiné au marché européen.

L'Europe a finalement donné un coup de frein aux agrocarburants en limitant les agrocarburants dits de "première génération", produits à base de cultures alimentaires (blé, maïs, colza, canne ou palme) à 6 % de l'énergie finale consommée dans les transports

The Hadzabe people of Tanzania are acquiring basic skills on how to survive in a globalised world, where investment in land translates into money.

Joan Baxter profiles Indian national Chinnakannan Sivasankaran and his quest to make his Siva Group into the largest player in the production of palm oil by leasing land and establishing oil palm plantations from Papua New Guinea to Sierra Leone to South America.

Civil society organisations appeal for suspension of MIFEE project in Papua pending redress for local communities

Today foreigners hold less than 2% of all agricultural land in the US. However, this share is growing as more foreign pension funds and others look to cash in on a boom in farmland values and commodity prices.

At least 200,000 people blocked roads and launched protests across Colombia against free trade agreements, land grabs and other policies of poverty and privatization pushed by US-backed right-wing President Juan Manuel Santos.

Because of difficulty in securing commercial-scale agricultural lands in the Philippines, hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. said that it may shift its planned joint venture with the Manny Pangilinan-led First Pacific Co. Ltd. to Indonesia.

Wilmar says it plans to expand its oil palm plantations holdings in West Africa and to start producing sugar in Burma.

Operations at Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, have been paralyzed due to a financial crisis.

International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil in Honduras on 6th-8th August

L'accaparement des terres comme une forme de néo-colonialisme n'est pas une question de noms et d’origines, mais simplement une question liée à l'expansion mondiale du système capitaliste.