China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.

Qui possède les terres agricoles en France ? De moins en moins d’agriculteurs, et de plus en plus de sociétés, parfois étrangères, échappant à tout contrôle. Une proposition de loi promet de lutter contre ce phénomène.

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

Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.

Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.

Rural sociologist Saker El Nour discusses the complex power dynamics between main actors within land reclamation projects in Egypt.

Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.

Lorsqu’un puissant vole un pays entier, c’est un « monsieur », mais lorsqu’un pauvre occupe un petit lopin de terre pour vivre, c’est un « voleur » et un usurpateur ; le premier est applaudi (et, parfois, devient même président) tandis que le second est expulsé, voire emprisonné, ou réprimé.

Eva Bande was jailed for her role as a community organizer against land grab by extractive industries on the Indonesian island, Sulawesi. Ten years on, her fight continues.

A new report released today by environmental campaign group Mighty Earth alleges that Michelin, the world’s largest tire company, was complicit in and covered up industrial-scale deforestation of over 2,500 hectares of rainforest in the run-up to the launch of its flagship ‘eco-friendly’ sustainable natural rubber joint venture project in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Au Sri Lanka, une circulaire protégeant des milliers d’hectares de forêt pourrait être levée. Officiellement, le but est destiné à soutenir les petits paysans. Mais ce projet s’inscrit dans un contexte moins glorieux où l’on retrouve des multinationales US bien décidées à privatiser aux quatre coins du monde des terres qui échappent à leur appétit vorace.

A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a class-action suit against Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer. Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking compensation after the Cambodian government allocated land to the company for sugar plantations.

On parle de « plantations de caoutchouc naturel » mais pour l’Union des paysans indonésiens, il s'agit d'une appropriation à grande échelle des terres par Michelin et ses filiales

Major multinational companies including Nestlé and Cargill may be sourcing Nicaraguan beef from indigenous regions consumed by land grabs, settler occupation and mass deforestation.

High Court in Lusaka rules that the conversion of village lands in Muchinda chiefdom for a large-scale agribusiness project was illegal and violated the community’s rights, but stops short of cancelling the company's title.

Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands of the Wichi people, where, in the first months of 2020, nine children died from malnutrition and lack of water.

CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.

With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.

Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive industries, but ranged against this is the swift growth of an eco-feminist movement that regards protection of the environment as essential to the protection of human rights.

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.

While the Law on how to sell and buy agricultural land prohibits foreigners from buying land in Moldova, then the Land Code does not provide such restrictions.

L’augmentation du prix de la terre en Uruguay a conduit les entrepreneurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture et de l’élevage à acheter des terres moins chères au Paraguay.

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

ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by providing 40 million $ loan to a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a statement released by Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overs.

One of the world's major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard University's controversial investments in global farmland.

Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment due to sufficient land and cheap labour. As traditional laws that once protected village land weaken, indigenous communities and farmers have repeatedly lost chunks of land facilitated by foreign investors.

Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.

La mise en location de millions d’hectares de terre malgaches, sous forme de bail emphytéotique, à des investisseurs, notamment étrangers, comme méthode de développer le pays et son agriculture est prônée par les dirigeants malgaches dans le Programme Sectoriel de l’Agriculture, Elevage et Pêche 2016-2020

Lutte contre le changement climatique, l’évasion fiscale ou encore l’accaparement des terres : autant de réformes censurées, vidées de leur substance ou avortées ces dernières années en France. Le rôle des lobbies là-dedans ?

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.