Indigenous communities have claims to nearly one third of all land granted in commercial land concessions in 12 countries analyzed by a new report.

Disputes over land tenure threaten social harmony in a number of ASEAN countries

Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.

Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.

European banks and pension funds continue to finance one of the largest and most destructive palm oil giants Wilmar International, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe.

Civil society groups warn secretive plan paves the way for a massive land grab in northern Mozambique.

Australia's Trade Minister Craig Emerson says plans to increase scrutiny on farmland investments would ruin any chance at all of a free-trade deal being struck with China.

A Brazilian megaproject in Mozambique is set to displace millions of peasants

Includes presentations on large-scale farmland investment in Sudan by public and private sector representatives.

A consultation paper on Australia's foreign ownership register for agricultural land is now available for public comment.

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.

A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.

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.

Land grabbing in Congo is speculative, CONAPAC advisor Etienne Bisimwa says, often based on the anticipated demand for jatropha, for biofuel. The profits, he says, are unlikely to be invested in rural areas.

If there is an issue that is the pulse of popular discontent in Tanzania presently, then, it is land.

Given the power imbalances at play, it is folly to assume that land-seekers will suddenly embrace, en masse, a set of voluntary rules promoting sustainable and equitable investor practices, says Michael Kugelman

Resource conflicts are building in the southernmost part of West Papua, as agribusiness companies stealthily invade the forests, leaving its people dispossessed.

Pervertissant la vision classique du rapport de pouvoir public/privé, certains pays africains ont repris à leur compte le slogan d’un journal de l’Europe de l’Est lors d’une visite du Chancelier allemand en 1999 : "Nous pardonnons aux Croisés et attendons les investisseurs".

The price for Alliance’s investigations into cases of land grabbing has been set so high that once paid it will become extremely risky for anyone to question the vices of land grabbing and forceful evictions of innocent citizens.

Australian farmers have demanded an overhaul of foreign investment rules ahead of any attempt to harness Asian capital to boost the nation's food production.

The growing insecurity and violence in Gambela, seen in the recent loss of human lives and attacks on government institutions, should be seen as a clear warning to investors about the dangers involved in large scale agricultural investments, says the Anywaa Survival Organisation.

"People are having their land stolen from them, literally, without even being aware it has happened, let alone consenting."

D’une superficie de 190 000 ha, la communauté rurale de Mbane a af­fecté, selon le registre de Aliou Diack, 250 000 ha depuis 2002.

Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.

Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.

Interview with Olaseinde Makanjuola Arigbede of the United Small and Medium scale Farmers' Associations of Nigeria (USMEFAN)

Australia's Federal Opposition will establish a working group to investigate options for sharpening rules governing the sale of Australian agricultural land and agribusinesses, to foreign entities.

Les fonds de pension sont peut-être l’une des rares catégories d’accapareurs de terres auxquelles les gens peuvent couper l’herbe sous le pied, pour la bonne et simple raison que c’est de leur argent qu’il s’agit.

As controversy continues to bubble in Australia over the latest big local farmland buy-up and what it means for food production, it’s worth looking to see where these foreign raiders are coming from, who’s backing them and how other countries are tightening their regulations to stop them.

The Philippines is among the leading target countries for land deals despite provisions in the Constitution barring foreigners from owning land.