Building land inventories, Wikipedia-style, would be a cheap and easy way for poor, rural communities to compile a record of property rights and land usage patterns and could reduce corruption and help lessen illegal land grabs.

New book explains the reasons behind the land grab phenomenon and why so many Ethiopians are not only alarmed but also adamantly opposed to it.

"They are selling off African land for a song," said Ndiogou Fall, president of the executive committee for the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA), which is calling for dialogue between governments, producers and African and foreign investors.

"On brade les terres africaines. On contraint des milliers de petits producteurs à la misère. Cela est insupportable. La terre doit rester un patrimoine de la communauté en Afrique", affirme ainsi le président du Comité exécutif du Réseau des organisations paysannes et des producteurs agricoles de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA), Ndiogou Fall.

"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.

Une écrasante majorité des transactions foncières effectuées sur le continent ne respecte peu ou pas du tout une série de règles – appelées "directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers" – censées protéger les populations contre la rapacité des investisseurs internationaux, selon un rapport du Cirad.

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.

Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness

The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed to have an emerging-market hubris every bit as blinding as that of their colonial predecessors.

A New York company managing the retirement savings of workers in Sweden, the US and Canada is evading Brazilian laws on foreign investment to acquire farmlands from a businessman accused of violently displacing local communities.

Des personnalités politiques européennes et américaines unissent leurs voix à l’inquiétude internationale concernant le barrage de Gibe III et les plantations irriguées qui lui sont associées.

A global food crisis and rapid population growth are making farmland an increasingly attractive investment. Holly Black looks at the options.

La lutte contre l’accaparement de terres a au Mexique une longue histoire. Le rejet du “Procede” dans les communautés indigènes, l’occupation de grandes propriétés au Chiapas à la suite du soulèvement zapatiste, la résistance des paysans d’Atenco et tant d’autres conflits montrent que l’initiative de la Banque Mondiale dans notre pays ne passera pas.

Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies

Eritrean law blocking foreign investors from owning land and the country's desire for self-reliance makes it highly unlikely that it will fall for the neocolonial phenomenon of land grabbing.

There are countless examples of governments handing it over at bargain prices to foreign investors, ranging from hedge funds to biofuel producers.

BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.

Outline of major Ukraine companies open to farmland investors

Le groupe de l’industriel breton va vendre 5 % du capital de la Socfin, sa filiale qui exploite des cultures d’hévéas et de palmiers à huile en Afrique et en Asie. Il a d’ores et déjà renoncé à ses droits de vote.

La ruée vers le foncier africain a suscité une attention particulière ces dernières années. Mais ce phénomène est rarement abordé sous l’angle du marché du travail et de la main-d’œuvre. Pour Rama Salla Dieng, il est temps d’historiciser l’accaparement des terres afin de mieux y résister.

In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.

Villagers in southern Laos’ Saravane province are refusing to hand over community land to a planned Chinese banana farm, saying if they lose their land they will have no way to feed their families.

Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world for activists fighting for their land or trying to safeguard the environment, according to a Global Witness report, which also provides insight into why these defenders are at such high risk.

Argentina Tourism Minister Carlos Meyer has hailed Qatar Airways’ flights from Buenos Aires to Doha as an important step for enhanced ties between the two countries, including farmland acquisitions.

Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.

Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”

The Government is considering the purchase of farmland worth US$500 million (Dh1.8 billion) in Pakistan as part of a strategy to lower food import costs.