ADECRU denounces the concession of large tracts of land to Portucel, Lúrio Green and other companies without the least consultation with affected communities.

A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.

President Armando Emilio Guebuza and PM Shinzo Abe must respect the legitimate and sovereign demands of the people of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan and suspend ProSavana and the G8 New Alliance.

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.

Mozambican peasants union and large number of national and international groups call on heads of state of Mozambique, Japan and Brazil to immediately suspend the ProSavana agribusiness project.

From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. Rather than help financial and corporate elites to "responsibly invest" in farmland, we need them to stop and divest.

Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.

Hundreds of civil society organisations including farmers' movements, women's groups and non-governmental organisations, will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 and 23.

African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters

With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.

I am worried. A consensus is emerging among international institutions about the need to guide investment in agriculture. But at the same time, many civil society groups and farmers’ organisations, including the most representative among them, denounce ‘land-grabbing’.

The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.

Tanzania’s experience in the global land grab post-2008 led to shattered hopes, land conflicts & misery for small farmers. Yet, the current govt risks repeating history. A new report looks at this critical moment for Tanzania's small farmers & pastoralists.

Expansion of intra-African trade and the resulting demand for goods such as agricultural goods will affect land systems, increasing large-scale land acquisitions by public and private actors.

Researchers say the construction of a dam and sugarcane plantations has dispossessed the Lower Omo’s peoples of their farming and grazing lands and irreversibly altered the natural cycles of the Omo River.

We can no longer afford to pour billions in public money into projects that exacerbate debt, inequalities, poverty and climate change

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

New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.

Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à démontrer que les activités des banques publiques de développement ont alimenté des violations des droits humains (telles représailles, accaparement de terres et expulsions forcées) sans que les communautés affectées ne puisse accéder à quelconque remède utile."

Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations that could supply multinational firms’ thirst for palm oil and put the wealth into the community, says SDI

A critical examination of the European Union's involvement in land grabbing

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.

At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.

Despite all the hypocritical calls and posturing of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for ending hunger, they have facilitated, enabled, and led the global rush for landgrabs

Solange Bolembe of RIAO-RDC, an information and support network for community organisations in the DR Congo, explains the challenges that women face who live in communities affected by oil palm plantations.

Joint statement endorsed by 93 international, regional and national organizations to mark the “Day of the Landless”

With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.

With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.

By inviting Malaysian oil palm investors in Palawan, Philippines, President Duterte is doing exactly the opposite of what he promised to do