Le gouvernement camerounais autorise la mise à disposition à Wassande, dans la région de l’Adamaoua, d’une superficie de 5000 hectares au profit de la société turque Paksan Tekstil Sanayii.

Overall, nearly $5b of sensitive land has changed hands in New Zealand through the Overseas Investment Office since the Labour-led government was formed.

Au Sénégal, tout se passe comme si les autorités qui semblaient pourtant être animées de bonnes intentions, ont réalisé qu’il faut maintenir le statu quo ante, au nom de l’agro-business, devenu trop profitable.

Residents of Yala swamp, in Kenya, have begun the process of registering the land to ward off cartels seeking to benefit from the process after the departure of Dominion Farms

Selon le Prof Ibrahima Arouna Diallo, le coordinateur du réseau NELGA, la vallée du fleuve Sénégal "est un grenier de plus en plus menacé avec les investissements privés, les accaparements et la saturation des terres".

Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.

The complaint was filed in March on behalf of more than 700 displaced Cambodian families by the U.S. organization IDI and the Cambodian organizations Equitable Cambodia and LICADHO

Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.

In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, Olam wants to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon.

Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.

Au cours de la journée du 21 septembre déclaré journée internationale contre les monocultures d'arbres, le RADD a sensibilisé l’opinion publique sur les tactiques et les stratégies utilisées par les entreprises pour accaparer tes terres.

Police have arrested numerous villagers from communities involved in an international mediation process regarding the occupation of their land by the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc

Entre le 12 et le 16 septembre 2019, la police congolaise a arrêté de nombreux villageois des communautés impliquées dans un processus de médiation internationale concernant l'occupation de leurs terres par la société canadienne de huile de palme Feronia Inc (PHC-Feronia à Lokutu).

Ces ateliers visent à accompagner les acteurs stratégiques du changement des politiques foncières dans les pays à infléchir les débats et à faciliter la mise en réseau aux niveaux régional et international

Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region.

Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.

As foreign ownership of agriculture land continues to increase, efforts to limit foreign ownership of US farmland have gained traction.

Alors que l’Amazonie brûle, la forêt du bassin du Congo est consumée par d’autres flammes : celles de la convoitise terrienne et de l’explosion démographique.

A critical examination of the European Union's involvement in land grabbing

Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.

This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and voices its silence on intellectual property rights.

Plusieurs investisseurs internationaux présents au Brésil contribuent à une gestion des terres non durable et bafouent les droits de la personne, notamment La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).

The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, control and defend land – must be defended and advanced through everyday struggles; laws and policies on their own won’t make significant change

Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process has been initiated against Bengaluru-based Karuturi Global, which owns large rose farm holdings in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Pune and Bengaluru.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.

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

Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia

Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.

A l’occasion de la célébration de leur journée internationale, Greenpeace Afrique se joint aux peuples autochtones du Cameroun pour demander le respect des droits à leurs forêts, face aux entreprises responsables d’accaparement des terres.

A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or destroyed last month, fuelling concerns that under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners and farmers are involved in a free-for-all land grab.