Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.

Le projet comprend une zone agricole de 168 000 ha où seront cultivés et transformés la luzerne, le blé, le coton, le sésame et d'autres cultures

Le ministre de l’Agriculture de la Tunisie vient de déclarer qu’il ne propose pas au niveau du plan de réformes gouvernementales la vente des terres domaniales aux étrangers mais plutôt la possibilité de les louer à des sociétés à participation étrangère avec la révision du taux de celle-ci dans le capital de 66 à 100%.

The resistance processes of the communities of La Chiquita, Guadualito and Barranquilla de San Javier in the region of Esmeraldas continue to generate outrage and solidarity among other communities, and internationally.

African Africulture Inc takes control of 20,000 ha previously granted to Senhuile in Senegal plus 2.2 million hectares in Niger

Pumping public dollars into the destructive industrial meat sector is neither climate-resilient nor climate-smart, say Kari Hamerschlag and Peter Stevenson. It's also fuelling land grabbing.

US pension fund manager TIAA provides an introduction to carbon markets for land-based investments in order to evaluate how carbon can be incorporated into land-based investment strategies.

The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.

A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in

Participants of Liberia's Civil Society Organizations Oil Palm Working Group, through the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), have agreed on several strategies to work within making the sector better.

Signatories of a petition objecting to the certification of SOCFIN Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil have been a target of arbitrary harassment and criminalization.

Hassad has invested in international institutions and companies operating in the grain, meat, poultry, livestock and fish sectors, in a number of countries such as Australia, Canada, Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.

Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.

New research studied 160 large-scale land acquisitions made between 2005 and 2015 across Europe, South America, Africa and Asia looking at how much of this land acquisition would cause competition and water grabbing.

Experts warn that providing companies with an option to dispute the revocation opens up room for corruption, and gives companies time to speed up the exploitation of the land while the revocations remain non-binding.

Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in Benue state, Nigeria over probable land indemnity disputes with the natives regarding lands originally owned by the state government.

Une déclaration prononcée lors du « Sommet des peuples africains » en vue du 6ème Sommet UE-Afrique, exigeant plus d’espace pour les OSC et des mesures pour garantir la justice foncière et l’agroécologie.

Quelque 145 Camerounais ont été déboutés vendredi par la justice française alors qu’ils souhaitaient contraindre le groupe Bolloré à fournir des documents censés établir ses liens avec une société camerounaise qu’ils accusent d’attenter à leurs droits.

Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.

L’enjeu du délibéré, ce vendredi 7 janvier, est de permettre à la justice d’établir la responsabilité de Bolloré sur les activités de cette filiale camerounaise de Socfin, la maison-mère commune.

The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.

Mbane, Ndengler, Mbodiène, Diass... Les litiges fonciers se multiplient au Sénégal depuis plusieurs années et ne trouvent toujours pas de solution durable.

Après la signature des accords de paix en 2016 à Cuba, les guérilleros sont partis. Dans leur sillage sont arrivés, le long de cette même piste poussiéreuse d'une centaine de kilomètres, des accapareurs de terres que personne n'ose identifier.

Le 7 décembre 2020, l’eau entrait à la Bourse de Chicago, ouvrant la voie à la marchandisation de cette ressource vitale. Et surtout à la spéculation.

WRM Bulletin presents 5 perspectives from a coalition of movements, organizations and social pastoral bodies that have worked for decades in defense of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes and their peoples and communities.

A mercantilização da agricultura e as falsas ‘obrigações climáticas’ favorecem investimentos estrangeiros em negócios que desmatam.

This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.

Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.