A French court ruled to confiscate nine Bordeaux wine country chateaux acquired by a Chinese magnate convicted of laundering Chinese government funds.

Les gouvernements doivent veiller à ce que les projets de compensation carbone sur les terres respectent les droits d'accès et de propriété des peuples autochtones et des communautés locales.

During a visit to the 630,000 ha Mostaqbal Misr project, Egypt's President says he will be opening the door wide for the private sector to tap land-reclamation projects on a grand scale by offering a lot of incentives, like roads and water for agricultural purposes.

Ce samedi 11 mai, 6000 à 7000 personnes ont convergé vers la Limagne, en France pour une première grande manifestation contre le projet de deux giga-bassines qui totaliserait 2,3 M de m³.

Entre 4 000 et 6 500 manifestants se sont mobilisés dans le Puy-de-Dôme, en France, pour protester contre la construction de deux réserves d’eau destinées à irriguer 800 hectares de terres agricoles. La manifestation, organisée par des groupes écologistes, vise à défendre l’eau comme un bien commun.

Nigeria's Enugu State has signed a deal for a joint venture with Pragmatic Palms Limited that will give the newly formed company with no previous agricultural experience control over a 6,700 ha oil palm plantation concession.

On the opening day of the World Bank's 2024 Land Conference, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society issue statement denouncing the World Bank for land grabbing and ecosystem destruction.

“The problem we have here is the replanting by SOCAPALM and we are asking for vital space for our survival, but SOCAPALM does not want to cooperate,” Yomba Bernard, a notable of Apouh told The Guardian Post.

Suite aux soupçons de malversations financières, le bras de fer s’intensifie entre l’État congolais et l’actionnaire SKKM2 au sein de PHC S.A. (anciennement Unilever)

Conclusion du dialogue national inclusif qui s’est tenu du 2 au 29 avril 2024, le « démentellement » d’Olam, Arise et d’autres sociétés interrogent quelque peu.

Ses opposants craignaient un risque de "financiarisation" de l'agriculture française.

Environmental rights defenders were arrested, and an environmental journalist was abducted after displaying three banners denouncing the mistreatment by the PHC company in Kinshasa.

Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.

The joint venture project between Qatar's Baladna and the Algeria's National Investment Fund will develop a vertically integrated dairy operation in Algeria, spanning 117,000 ha.

Under the alleged scheme, the land worth over US$7 million was illegally taken from two state firms and transferred to war veterans on the condition they lease it to some private firms, prosecutors said.

Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.

Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab with 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming

Entretien avec l’ingénieur Ignace Bwaya Biza , consultant à la Confédération paysannes du Congo (COPACO/PRP).

This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.

A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.

The Mount Kei project seeks to reforest degraded lands in Uganda with a mix of teak on 18,000 hectares and indigenous tree species on 20,000 hectares. The teak will be harvested for construction material, while the rest of the project will generate carbon credits.

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.

In a letter to Guatemalan national authorities, 115 organizations from 39 countries demanded a halt to the abuses and violence that palm oil company Industria Chiquibul has been committing in indigenous and peasant communities.

The Agriculture Investment Conference intends to lure Malawian emerging mega farmers to invest in commercial farming by introducing them to various profitable agricultural value chains and the respective off-taker markets.

Lettre ouverte de l'Association des Femmes Riveraines de la SOCAPALM d'Edea (AFRISE), au Cameroun, contre le replanting des palmiers à huile

NGOs say a development bank mediation process is coercing communities into foregoing their rights to their territories and accepting a palm oil company's occupation of their lands without the time, resources, security and legal support required to adequately defend their interests.

En France, le projet de loi d’orientation agricole prévoit la création de groupements fonciers agricoles d’investissement. Ces fonds d’investissement seront en mesure de faire appel à l’épargne pour racheter le foncier agricole. On parle d’un risque de financiarisation.

Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.

A military drone fell in the Big Island of Brăilei, in the area of the Filipoiu Farm within the Al-Dahra Agricost holding. The incident is considered by specialists to be the most serious for Romania since the beginning of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine.

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).