Le terme grilagem est plus pertinent que celui d’«accaparement de terres» parce qu’il se réfère à une situation où la loi n’existe pas (aqui não tem lei), ou s’annule dans une situation très similaire à l’instauration d’un état d’exception.

Industrial-scale agriculture poses considerable risk to the indigenous peoples of Papua. Anthropologist Sophie Chao has studied the often fraught relationship between Papuans and plantation firms, and the mechanisms through which indigenous people are compelled to give up their land.

Avec de tels projets, l’accaparement de terres par des investisseurs internationaux pour mener des opérations de compensation carbone, phénomène déjà observé, pourrait s’aggraver.

The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future, and are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist.

Write to Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its intimidation of Nasako Besingi and other defenders of local communities and forests.

It is wondrous how the threat of climate change, a clear sign of the excesses and limitations of advanced economies, could ever become a driver of grand visions of progress in the developing world.

We call for a mass mobilisation to stop the landgrab and support local peasants struggles.

A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's Public Investment Fund sovereign wealth fund – buys Continental Farmers Group, which has large farming operations in Poland and the Ukraine.

This article calls into question the depth and effectiveness of a regulatory approach arguing that problems underlying large-scale land deals are so deep constituting socio-institutional problems of power asymmetry, exclusion and invisiblization, than just investment externalities or regulatory challenges.

It is important to unpack what land grabbing really involves if we are to understand what is really happening.

Du Sénégal à la Tanzanie, le phénomène du land-grabbing (ou accaparement des terres) est en train de se développer de manière très rapide, quelques exemples reviennent sur le devant de la scène.

African NGOs were not satisfied with the Rio +20 Summit. They were particularly disappointed that the land grabbing, which is the acquisition of arable land sometimes through dubious methods, was not discussed enough.

One of the manifestations of the greed of Africa's domestic plutocrats and their imperial overlords is the massive land grab that we are witnessing today.

This 2011 trapca Trade Conference will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, on 24-25 November 2011

Modern machineries of all sorts, owned and run by agri-companies, are turning the soils inside out, destroying forests and beginning to pollute the environment to get more production.

Responsible investment in agriculture is preferably not about large scale foreign land acquisitions. It is about promoting sustainable agriculture, reducing poverty and meeting the world’s food needs, says IFAD's Harold Liversage

The main objective of this essay is to draw the attention of fellow Ethiopians to the issue. So that it stays front and center in our contemporary political agenda, until we manage to mobilize the necessary popular pressure and try our best to stop it from taking effect.

Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.

The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.

A study shows non-farmers bought more than half the farms and estates sold on the open market in England in 2023, with private investors involved in 28% of transactions and institutional investors in 13% – a rise of 10% on 2022 levels.

Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.

Extractivism does not only concern mining, but also agriculture. Investments, such as those made by Senhuile in the Senegal delta, are part of large programs of landscape and social re-engineering in the context of a juncture between “green capitalism” and food security paradigms.

The funding agreement secured with a British Petroleum subsidiary for US$2.5 million will support the planting and development of 5,000 ha of degraded land in Sierra Leone

Over the last three years, Australia’s agriculture and farmland have been in high demand for institutional investors in Canada searching for diversification and sustainability.

The UN counted 355 SLAPPs from the business community between 2015 and 2022. Individuals and organisations that expose human rights violations, abuses in mining, agriculture and forestry and on palm oil plantations are most often affected.

Poor planning and ignoring advice of indigenous groups resulted in flooding, failed crops and left behind arid, barren land that could exacerbate the climate crisis

On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia

Pumping public dollars into the destructive industrial meat sector is neither climate-resilient nor climate-smart, say Kari Hamerschlag and Peter Stevenson. It's also fuelling land grabbing.

New research studied 160 large-scale land acquisitions made between 2005 and 2015 across Europe, South America, Africa and Asia looking at how much of this land acquisition would cause competition and water grabbing.

WRM Bulletin presents 5 perspectives from a coalition of movements, organizations and social pastoral bodies that have worked for decades in defense of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes and their peoples and communities.