The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company have confirmed plans for their joint investment in two of Russia's largest agricultural and food companies.

A complaint lodged earlier this year about alleged abuses by a palm oil company in Indonesian Papua has raised questions over the credibility of the industry’s largest certification scheme in investigating member violations.

Changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations

The NGO SEFE and communities resisting Herakles Farms in Cameroon call on international media, individuals and organisations to support local people in protecting their lands and forests.

En Australie, une campagne de financement participatif est en cours pour acheter les ranchs du roi du bétail australien, Sydney Kidman.

Despite claims that a massive agricultural development deal in Mozambique will benefit the country’s citizens, there are indications that the project is designed to benefit a select few and could leave 100,000 Mozambicans displaced, write Khadija Sharife, Luis Nhachote

Throughout the Congo Basin sub-region, whether in Mundemba (Cameroon) or Mboma (Gabon), we see agribusiness increasingly competing with local agricultural economies.

European Union (EU) corporate and financial entities involved in land grabbing may be implicated in a variety of human rights abuses.

A China-led consortium seeking to buy Australia's S. Kidman & Co will hold off on a fresh bid for the country's largest agricultural land owner amid concerns it could be derailed by a more protectionist new government, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Villagers in southern Savannakhet province have been at loggerheads with the Chinese-backed Lamxe Road-Bridge Construction Company since May, when the firm started clearing land for cattle farms.

Les entreprises basées dans des abris fiscaux tels que les Îles Caïmans, Hong Kong, et Andorra contrôlent 1 hectare sur 16 de toutes les terres appartenant à des étrangers en Argentine.

En Colombie, il y a environ 10 entreprises et familles qui ont bénéficié de l’accaparement des terres

A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.

Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.

Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.

On June 1, citizens and representatives of Belgian, French and Luxembourgish organisations are calling out to the shareholders of SOCFIN, a Belgian-Luxembourgish group, during their annual meeting.

The European Commission is giving five Eastern European countries two months to bring their agricultural land purchasing rules in line with the European Union standards or it may pursue legal action.

Un projet de loi sur les propriétés privées titrées en cours de discussion au niveau ministeriel contient un article qui cherche à donner les mêmes droits d’accès à la propriété foncière aux Malgaches et aux étrangers.

Declaration from international conference on agrarian reform held in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, 17 April 2016 attended by more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 regions and 28 countries of the world.

We share the concerns of local communities regarding the growing interest in community land for corporate oil palm plantations.

Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country.

Land grabs for megaprojects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, monoculture agribusiness and petroleum extraction continue and even intensify.

A Chinese investment firm has won approval to buy Australia's oldest dairy farm, making it the first overseas company to be subject to new rules aimed at ensuring foreign companies pay tax on their Australian earnings.

The No to ProSavana Campaign calls on peasant, environmental and social movements, civil society organisations, rural communities, and all citizens to mobilise and organise a united front of resistance against ProSavana.

Billionaire trucker Lindsay Fox is making a late bid to keep Australia’s largest outback cattle ­empire in local hands with a push to buy the sprawling S. Kidman & Co stations that are set to fall into Chinese hands.

La réforme foncière en cours au Sénégal cherche à doter le pays d’un outil qui puisse préserver la paix sociale de manière durable, en évitant certains pièges qui risquent de précipiter les terres entre les mains de l’agrobusiness.

The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa invites you to join the West African Caravan for Land, Water and Seeds, which will mobilize 15 countries of the sub-region in March 2016

Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

About a hundred farmers and indigenous peoples voiced out their opposition to the expansion of oil palm plantations in Philippines with nine companies from Malaysia and Indonesia, have signaled their intention to invest in Mindanao.

La Chine a accepté des accords commerciaux qui obligent le pays à importer des denrées alimentaires et mis en place des mesures favorisant le développement des grandes exploitations et d’énormes entreprises alimentaires et agroindustrielles.