En partenariat avec 17 organisations de Harvard et du monde entier, la Coalition Stop Harvard Land Grabs tente de mettre fin aux investissements réalisés par l’Université dans les ressources naturelles et exige des solutions régénératrices aux dommages causés par ces exploitations.

Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.

Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma is certified as organic, fair and sustainable, and the oil is sold to food giants like Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé. But much of the plantation land of this purported model company was likely grabbed illegally.

Journalist Richard Assheton visits the Ndiaël region in northern Senegal, where he meets communities fighting a decade-long campaign against the sale of 20,000 ha, now held by Frank Timis' African Agriculture Inc

We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.

The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.

“Growing row crops is an excellent way for Fresh Del Monte to leverage its idle lands,” said Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO, Fresh Del Monte.

In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois to fund a research center, branded with the company’s name, that would explore the financial niche of farmland investment.

Une bataille juridique a éclaté sur la propriété des Plantations et Huileries du Congo, une entreprise qui contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres pour des plantations de palmier à huile en République démocratique du Congo.

Two-thirds of polled Ukrainians are against opening up the country's farmland to foreigners

Harvard says it is trying to divest from unsustainable ventures but is having trouble finding buyers for the farms, it continues to profit from the appreciating value of the land.

Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.

A engrenagem do capital esmaga a Amazônia, seus povos, a floresta e seus rios: de um lado, a expansão da soja e da pecuária, unidas à derrubada e comercialização ilegal de madeiras e às queimadas criminosas que “limpam a terra” para o agronegócio

Relatório denuncia sistema que burla a lei brasileira e permite apropriação de terras por investidores estrangeiros

Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard joins international civil society groups to shed light on HMC’s morally repugnant land investments

Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration

Eighty indigenous farmers are suing the Bolloré group and its subsidiaries for having grabbed their ancestral lands

Vingt-quatre jours se sont écoulés depuis que le défenseur des droits foncier Joël Imbangola Lunea a été brutalement tué par le chef de la sécurité de la compagnie canadienne d'huile de palme Feronia Inc. à Bempumba en RD Congo

Twenty-four days have passed since land defender Joël Imbangola Lunea was brutally killed by Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.'s chief of security at Bempumba, in the Province of Equateur of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US owned-company farming maize and oilseed on 13,500 acres in Uganda.

Face à l'enfer de l'accaparement des terres, leur dégradation et leur artificialisation, un mouvement « terrariste » prend corps, écrit Geneviève Azam

Les pressions pour ouvrir le marché foncier au Brésil proviennent principalement de Chine.

The BFB sale has raised concerns that even if local bidders are able to raise the cash required for these deals, they’re not able to compete with the vast resources and track records of international players.

A controversial new railroad, Ferrogrão (Grainrail), is poised to penetrate the Brazilian Amazon, if industrial agribusiness gets its way.

As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.

Alors qu’ING lance une campagne sur l’investissement durable, un groupe d’ONG dénonce publiquement aujourd’hui ces financements à des entreprises d’huile de palme, telles que SOCFIN

Saudi Arabia’s state-run Salic is nearing a deal to buy Mriya Agro Holding Plc, which would take the Salic-operated farming area in Ukraine to just over 200,000 hectares.

The university's endowment fund, meant to support educational and research goals, was misused to acquire 850,000 hectares of farmland across 5 continents during the past 10 years.

A new report by ASO provides an assessment of the Karuturi project and the other land deals that the Ethiopian government has promoted in Gambela over the past decade through its land policies

China’s agricultural investment abroad grew more than tenfold in less than a decade and parallels its emergence as a major importer of agricultural commodities. But the focus of investments are shifting from farming and raw materials to business acquisition.