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

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.

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.

The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.

The recent incidents form part of a pattern of threats and intimidation attempts following the publication of an NHCRF report concerning land grabbing and human rights violations in the Northwest region.

Investors from largely food-insecure Gulf countries are increasingly buying vast swaths of fertile land irrigated by the Nile River in Sudan to grow food crops to sustain their populations.

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.

Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.

Sous la menace de l’accaparement de la société agro-industrielle Biopalm, des femmes autochtones Bagyeli du département de l’Océan disent non à la production du palmier à huile dans leurs forêts.

The acquisition—both legally and illegally—of enormous amounts of terrain by a small number of groups has left Paraguay with the highest level of inequality of land ownership in the world.

In a strong show of support to rural communities asserting their right to land, 139 organizations from 26 countries across Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe issued a joint statement to mark the Day of the Landless last 29 March with several solidarity actions were also held on the same day.

This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers within the Lokutu oil palm plantation concession area of the Canadian company Feronia Inc, following weeks of growing tension between communities and the company.

Unless these organizations are firmly held accountable to international human rights standards, they will not only fail to push their industries towards more responsible behavior, but they will become little more than window dressing for corporate misconduct.

“We need to work with affected communities to negotiate mutually beneficial land deals that genuinely offer win wins for communities, individual farmers and investors," says representative of UK’s Department for International Development.

As refugees began to trickle back, many found their land had been taken for parks, military use or leased to palm oil concessions and rubber plantations. From 2011 to 2016, about 1.9 million acres of land across Myanmar were allocated for agricultural concessions including rubber and palm oil.

ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.

In December 2012, on the sidelines of Islamic business forum in Malaysia, a man made a bold claim said his company, Menara Group held the rights to 4,000 square kilometres of rainforest for oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The basis of his claim was Tanah Merah project in Boven Digoel, Papua.

Certains tentent de faire oublier les affaires louches impliquant l’ancien président malgache Marc Ravalomanana actuellement en campagne pour ré-élection.

While large-scale soy growers say they’ve brought prosperity to the Cerrado, Campos Lindos has poverty levels far higher than the Brazilian average, lacks basic social services, and suffers high infant and maternal mortality rates.

The Bandung Declaration by members of the International Land Coalition underscores that if agrarian reform is going to build justice, it must redistribute land.

In 2000, palm oil company Energy & Palma bought land in northern Ecuador, home to Afro-Ecuadorian community of Wimbi. Provincial court ruled in favor of the company and ordered evacuation of Wimbi community but they refused to leave. This is only one part of a long ongoing legal battle between company and community in Ecuador.

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.

Customary land registration processes can easily be captured by local ‘big men’ and companies with disastrous consequences for local people, says study on oil palm expansion in Papua New Guinea.

A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.

Malgré son poids de plus en plus important dans l’économie nationale, la contribution fiscale annuelle du groupe Olam dans les recettes publiques représente donc moins de 0,08% de la collecte totale

China’s investment in foreign agriculture totaled $26 billion in 2016, with investments in 100 countries. But this may just be the tip of the iceberg. A new report by the United States Department of Agriculture to understand both the scale and purpose of foreign investment in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries.

China’s agricultural investment abroad grew more than tenfold in less than a decade and parallels its emergence as a major importer of agricultural commodities. But the focus of investments are shifting from farming and raw materials to business acquisition.

For the first time, plaintiffs from Cambodia have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Thai company after they were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for a sugarcane plantation

“Day of the Landless” annual commemoration lead by Asian Peasant Coalition joint by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, 'No Land, No Life' campaign of PAN Asia Pacific and Youth for Food Sovereignty, on March 29 this year call for peasants of the world to intensify struggle for land and life.

In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands ­– often held without deed by traditional communities ­– with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.