Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.

The head of Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service has revealed that deforestation by two illegal cocoa and oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon has caused US$111 million of damage.

The National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with Caritas Ghana and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Development has launched a joint report on ‘land grabbing’ in Ghana.

On 10th October, Miguel Galván was stabbed to death in the doorway of his own home in Argentina. Almost one year earlier, Cristian Ferreyra had also been shot and killed in his house. Both men were murdered because they refused to give up their land to multi-national soybean plantation companies.

A paramilitary unit of the Liberia National Police was deployed into the area after residents attempted to halt the survey.

European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.

Delegates demand that land should not be recklessly sold to foreigners during proceedings at Zambia's National Constitution Convention in Lusaka.

It is expected that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) will shortly be tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national parliament, but no one yet knows what it will recommend, let alone whether Peter O’Neill’s new government will act on those recommendations.

"The CFS is expected to adopt the VGs in May. Then for part two: laws with an enforcement mechanism. National laws, because that is where it really counts. And multilateral rules, too, to discipline foreign investors," write IATP.

Le Parti pour la renaissance nationale a organisé une rencontre d'échange des informations et des analyses relatives à la cession des terres agricoles au Mali afin de déterminer les initiatives et actions destinées à préserver le patrimoine foncier national, l’environnement et la paix sociale, et assurer la sécurité et la souveraineté alimentaire du pays.

Colin Filer says 5 million hectares of customary land has passed into the hands of national and foreign corporations in Papua New Guinea using a legal mechanism called the 'lease-lease-back scheme'.

I urge the Government to stop conceding to foreigners the natural resources and the national reserves of the peoples of Ethiopia, and to begin helping Ethiopian farmers preserve and farm their lands organically.

A study by a Federal Public Ministry working group on the purchase of land in the country demolishes the idea that Brazilian companies controlled by foreign capital should receive the same treatment in these purchases as companies by national capital.

Morocco plans to lease 30,000 ha of farmland per year to improve yields, satisfy growing national demand and boost export sales, its agriculture minister said on Thursday.

A top-level Qatar National Food Security Programme (QNFSP) delegation, led by QNFSP chairman Fahd al Attiyah, will visit agricultural research institutes and meet senior US Government officials, including from the White House, the State Department, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy during its week-long US programme.

La Société Djiboutienne de Sécurité Alimentaire a pour mission d'oeuvrer pour le compte de l'Etat à la réalisation des objectifs de la Sécurité Alimentaire de la République de Djibouti. Les projets peuvent se situer au niveau du territoire national comme à l'extérieur du Pays dans une perspective d'intégration régionale.

Chorng indigenous community, who live around Cardamom Mountain National Park in Koh Kong province, Cambodia, experienced difficulties obtaining forest products or practicing rotational farming near their village as they have been informed that those areas are in the REDD+ zone, although there was no clear boundary.

The transferability of land, along with the liberalisation of agriculture and finance the Bank and IMF have pushed on Global South states, have facilitated investment in agribusiness and driven the financialisation of national agricultural sectors.

At COP28 in Dubai, Nigeria's National Council for Climate Change signed an agreement with France's aDryada for carbon investment projects with Osun State (reforestation of 20,000 ha) and Cross River State (57,000 ha of mangrove restoration).

A Strategic Investment Partnership Agreement was formalized in Qatar between Dinara Group Holding and Qatar National Enterprises which will upscale Dinara's dairy, meat and crop farms and erect additional dairy farms

The people of Okomu community in Edo State have decried the alleged neglect and marginalisation of the area by Okomu Palm Oil, a multinational company and the management of National Park.

Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness

La Commission épiscopale justice et paix du Burkina (CJP-Burkina) a, du 14 au 16 avril 2021 à Ouagadougou, tenu un forum national sur le foncier au Burkina.

Le Coordonnateur National du Forum Civil s’engage à jouer sa partition dans l’affaire des 20 000 hectares de terres du Ndiaél affectés à des investisseurs étrangers.

45.000 hectares de terres viennent d'être attribuées au Ministère de l’agriculture par le conseil national d’affectation des terres par une décision prise de manière "collégiale" à la faveur d’une séance de travail à laquelle prenait également part le Directoire du géant Olam

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.

Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.

GRAIN recently learned that several cases of land grabbing have been prosecuted in the courts, or been acted upon by national authorities, and so we have compiled a short update on these developments.

Indonesia’s national commission on human rights has vowed to investigate the death of a journalist who was being held on charges of defaming a palm oil company owned by a powerful tycoon.

Un candidat indépendant, défendant les droits des communautés locales affectées par les activités du groupe agroindustriel SOCFIN dans la chefferie de Malen, a été élu au Parlement national.