Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by an American called Philip Investor, and Sole Agro Business Company, also owned by Indians, have been named in the evictions of thousands of people in the western districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi in Uganda.

Macquarie Bank has come under fire for land clearing operations undertaken by Viridis Ag, a farming enterprise owned by the banking group’s agricultural investment management business, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset.

Agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was the second deadliest sector for people standing up for the environment and their lands.

A new report by Makerere University's Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC) has pinned the National Oil Palm Project for illegal land acquisition in Kalangala and Buvuma districts.

El RCEP no sólo cambiará las reglas sobre la exportación e importación de bienes y servicios; cambiará la forma en que los gobiernos deciden sobre los derechos de tierras y quiénes tienen acceso a ellos.

Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements. We particularly explore how the collaborations between the provincial government of Santiago del Estero and non-government organizations (NGOs) in Argentina played out.

Le RCEP changera la manière dont les gouvernements décident des droits fonciers et qui a accès à la terre. Il pourrait par conséquent intensifier l’accaparement des terres en Asie. Nouvel article de GRAIN.

Global Witness report finds that more than three people were murdered each week in 2018, with countless more criminalised, for defending their land and our environment.

Villagers in Northern Nigeria struggle against a land grab by the Chinese company, Lee Group, for a massive sugar cane plantation project.

Le soutien public et international des investisseurs étrangers et le nouveau projet de la Banque Mondiale contrarient les efforts des organisations paysannes et de la société civile pour garantir la souveraineté alimentaire à long terme.

En France, l’accaparement de terres relève d’abord de grandes exploitations qui monopolisent le marché foncier en s’engouffrant dans des failles juridiques. L'histoire de Bastien Moysan.

Italian company that built a 7,000 ha maize plantation is now behind a dam project that would submerge several villages, forcing hundreds or thousands of people out of their ancestral homes.

The discussion will address the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its impact on women's land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.

RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.

This policy brief summarizes detailed research on land conflicts in Uganda's Kalangala and Buvuma islands and recommends steps to the main players to avert them.

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.

Pas moins de 27 actes de concession agricole ont été résiliés et 67.400 hectares de terres agricoles récupérés dans la commune de Brizina, en Algérie, pour cause de retard enregistré par les investisseurs

The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county

Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de terre en Ukraine. Elles produisent entre 25 et 30% des céréales et en exportent entre 40 et 45%.

Cambodian villagers will appeal a Thai court decision rejecting their class action lawsuit against Thailand's biggest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The class action lawsuit, filed in April last year on behalf of more than 3,000 Cambodian plaintiffs, accused the Thai sugar giant violently displacing them to make way for plantations.

The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the International Finance Corporation has tabled all SRC’s loan application processes pending full scale investigation into a recent complaint filed against it by 22 indigenous Liberian communities.

Apart from its own 3000 acre (1200ha) farm, Zhong's Industries Ltd plans to also use the out-grower model where millions of acres of land will be opened up for rice farming across the country.

A UNIDROIT Working Group is currently developing, in collaboration with FAO and IFAD, a future Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts. The online consultation on the ALIC Zero Draft is open from 1 June until 30 September 2019.

Australia’s big four banks; ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac are financing companies accused of land grabs, deforestation and labour abuses in developing countries according to a new report by Friends of the Earth Australia.

Un point d'information a été organisé sur la problématique de l'accaparement des terres en RD Congo financé par la coopération belge, allemande, française, anglaise, hollandaise... et en point de mire : la société Feronia.

Bank of America’s Specialty Asset Management group manages more than 94,000 assets with a value of $13.6 billion for individuals and institutions looking for timberland, farms, ranches, energy interests, or real estate.

Sunbird Bioenergy, after the recent change of management, is set to produce sugar for the local market in Sierra Leone and for export to neighboring countries

Les agro-industriels de la Vallée souhaiteraient avoir la possibilité de développer encore plus leurs activités. Et pour ce faire, ils demandent des terres.

A diplomatic intervention by the Indian government and law suits filed by the company appear to have pushed Ethiopian authorities to backtrack and offer a new lease in the Gambella region, this time for 15,000 hectares.

121 familles dénoncent l'accaparement de leur territoire par une grande exploitation agricole, Estrondo