Les mouvements sociaux ruraux de tout le Brésil ont lancé un manifeste historique pour la lutte contre le transfert des terres à des groupes étrangers et l’établissement de limites à la propriété foncière au Brésil

IP-rich New Zealand is a logical partner for resource-rich Gulf states as a producer of food in places like Africa, says New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

A global scramble for land and mineral resources fuelled by billions of investment dollars is threatening the last remaining wilderness and critical ecosystems, destroying communities and contaminating huge volumes of fresh water.

Papua New Guinea landowners are getting very little in the way of rent for vast tracts of land that have been leased out under controversial leases. Interview with Colin Filer.

The government will soon table a Contract Farming Bill in parliament, seeking to enact a law to protect smallholder farmers and rural communities against exploitation by private investors that acquire lands.

Recently, the Federal Government of Nigeria signed a Joint Venture Agreement on Commercial Rice farming with Calvin Burgess, owner and principal promoter of the Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms Limited.

Combien d’hectares appartiennent désormais à des étrangers et qui sont-ils? C’est ce que veut savoir le Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches - TANY.

Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.

Large-scale land investment should be seen as an extension of the historical processes of state formation, says this paper from Chatham House

The Guardian (Tanzania) discusses with Stanslaus Nyembea, Programme Officer for Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT), on foreign investments and land grabbing in Tanzania

Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the Ethiopian government for commercial agricultural development, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

Aucun aménagement à la marge de ces politiques ne saurait contenir la rapacité des investisseurs, publics ou privés : c’est la logique néolibérale qui les sous-tend qu’il faut combattre, au moyen de mobilisations populaires

As more and more fertile lands and rivers are in the hands of few investors, some villagers in southern Africa have started experiencing food shortages, a situation which was not there before.

Article details the diversity of outcomes and arrangements falling under the blanket term ‘land grab,’ examining transfers of ownership and control of land and the implications of political processes as reflected in land policy

Ricado était à Durban pour la Conférence des Parties de l'ONU et pour les activités de La Via Campesina organisées dans le cadre et en marge de la CdP en décembre 2011.

"We’re dealing with a different enemy now: not with an enemy that emerges from the center to the periphery, as they used to say, but with an enemy that comes at us from all sides."

Quant à l’éventuelle implication de la société civile dans la gestion des terres malgaches, le Directeur général des services fonciers estime qu’elle signifie une perte du pouvoir régalien de l’Etat sur ses propres biens

« Pour la première fois, un rapport international identifie le carbone dans les causes qui concourent à la course à la terre », selon Alain Karsenty

Différentes informations inquiétantes concernant des transactions sur les terres malgaches circulent ces derniers temps sans que les hauts responsables de l'Etat malgache ne réagissent.

The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.

Nous appelons toutes les organisations qui partagent ces principes et soutiennent ces actions à rejoindre notre Alliance internationale contre l'accaparement des terres, une alliance que nous créons ce jour, solennellement, ici à Nyéléni.

In the past three days, peasants, pastoralists and indigenous peoples have come together from across the world for the first time to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land-grabbing.

La firme américaine s'étend en Gambie et Sierra Léone.

US company with 100,000 ha in Guinea now looking to expand into The Gambia and Sierra Leone.

Minutes from the Karuturi Global Limited Q2 FY2012 results conference call.

Company which controls a quarter of a million acres of West African agricultural land approached by two Pan African banking groups, seeking to partner and support them in the development of their farm land in Central Guinea.

L’objectif de cette étude est de formuler des propositions qui servent de base au dialogue régional sur les mécanismes de régulation foncière face aux pressions commerciales sur les terres.

The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) invites submissions for an international conference on large-scale agricultural investments on 11 May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.

"Nous exigeons l’expropriation, sans indemnisation, des grands propriétaires fonciers (nationaux comme étrangers) en vue d’une réforme agraire permettant aux paysan-ne-s de disposer de leurs ressources."

Multinational corporations are buying enormous tracts of land in Africa, putting countries on the path to increased food insecurity, environmental degradation, increased reliance on aid and marginalisation of farming and pastoralist communities.