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

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.

Après quatre années à dénoncer les risques et les impacts négatifs effectifs de la Nouvelle alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition, l’annonce du retrait de la France est une réelle victoire. Mais il marque aussi l’échec de la France à transformer l’initiative et ne signifie pas encore que la NASAN soit définitivement terminée.

In May 2016, awasMIFEE published a story titled “The Salim Group’s secret plantations in West Papua”, about four concessions owned by the Salim Group in West Papua. A year and a half later, Salim Group is still aggressively expanding, and threatening more areas of remote Papuan forest.

In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.

A new book published in Japan says China is buying up land, including farmland, in the northern prefecture and turning the island into a province of its own

La question de l’accaparement des terres et de l’eau est devenue un problème lancinant qui affecte les communautés rurales et la petite paysannerie. Le Maroc n’échappe pas à ce fléau.

There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.

Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has issued an edict warning all local chiefs and traditional rulers to desist from land grabbing or face dethronement.

Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world for activists fighting for their land or trying to safeguard the environment, according to a Global Witness report, which also provides insight into why these defenders are at such high risk.

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.

Eritrean law blocking foreign investors from owning land and the country's desire for self-reliance makes it highly unlikely that it will fall for the neocolonial phenomenon of land grabbing.

Le mouvement Ekta Parishad, né en Inde pour défendre les paysans spoliés de leurs terres, prépare une grande marche de New Delhi à la Suisse afin de défendre un autre modèle de développement à l’échelle mondiale.

The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted

Les solutions prônées pour faire face au changement climatique soulèvent le risque d’accaparement des terres, qui deviendraient des « puits de carbone » plutôt que des sols nourriciers pour l’agriculture familiale.

Is land-grabbing over, in Mozambique and across Africa and the rest of the developing world? Now that crop and food prices have returned to their usual punishingly low levels, is the pressure off from foreign buyers looking to acquire large tracts of agricultural lands?

Mozambique’s rural communities remain on high alert, even as they successfully repel many of the largest land grabs.

Companies are betting that global appetites will increasingly rely on Black Sea soil even as obstacles to growth remain.

A new website has been launched this week to monitor the devastating impact of illegal large-scale commercial agriculture as a driver of global deforestation.

ProSAVANA continue à favoriser les investissements dans le Corridor de Nacala sans aborder le problème de l’accaparement des terres.

The ProSAVANA program intentionally weakens and creates division among peasants while there is an increased risk of even more peasants losing their land.

Le gouvernement cherche à remettre à plat le registre national du foncier et le cadre juridique dont les investisseurs ont besoin pour financer le secteur agricole

Huit ans après la publication de son premier rapport sur l'accaparement des terres, GRAIN publie un nouvel ensemble de données qui offre des précisions sur près de 500 cas d'accaparement des terres dans le monde entier.

Une initiative internationale jetant la lumière sur l’ensemble de ces transactions est désormais un impératif autant qu’un préalable pour protéger cette agriculture que nous avons plus que jamais en partage

While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners.

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.

Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.

A new register of agricultural land will not be made public despite the Government's promise to provide more transparency over foreign investment in Australian farms.

Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.