Le Conseil de gouvernement du Maroc a examiné un projet de loi relatif aux dispositions spéciales concernant l’acquisition, par des sociétés anonymes ou des sociétés en commandite par actions, de propriétés agricoles ou arables hors des périmètres urbains.

À Madagascar, plusieurs milliers d’hectares de terres sont convoités par une entreprise étrangère à côté de Tuléar, par un dignitaire du régime dans l’Itasy, et par l’État malgache à la périphérie de la capitale Antananarivo.

Eighty Bunongs farmers from Mondol Kiri, a province in the east of Cambodia – who are accusing the French industrialist Vincent Bolloré of grabbing their lands in 2008 to make way for rubber plantations, will have to prove their identity and show land titles by 20 January 2020 according to an order issued on 8 November by French court.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.

The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.

The Russian government has actively supported foreign investment in Siberian agriculture, making 1 million hectares of arable land in the Far Eastern Federal District available to foreign buyers

MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda for large-scale agricultural development and another with Al Dahra Holding for collaboration on the implementation of the National Strategy for Future Food Security.

La « vague d’espoir » soulevée par l'annonce de la Cour pénale internationale concernant son intention d'examiner des crimes liés à l’accaparement des terres s’est désormais transformée en « vague espoir »

Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.

During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.

Ramon Bedoya, 18 ans, est en France pour dénoncer les violations massives des droits humains et la dégradation environnementale perpétrées par l'industrie de l'huile de palme et des bananes plantains dans son pays.

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.

A new report guides you through the complexities and the legal frameworks related to human rights and today’s scramble for land.

At the initiative of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, all groups in the National Assembly except one have agreed to the withdrawal of legislative amendments intended at opening up the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.

“On their own these commitments are never going to stop deforestation. And there is a danger that zero deforestation policies are distracting attention and diverting resources away from the law enforcement and governance reforms that are needed.”

As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for industrial agro-business.

Les habitants de Fanaye Niakwar, dans l’arrondissement de Tékane, ont perdu le sourire depuis qu’ils ont vu des engins et des ouvriers poser des piquets pour clôturer un vaste terrain de près de 2000 ha.

L’Union européenne doit tirer les leçons de l’échec de la politique actuelle en abandonnant les politiques contraignant les automobilistes européens à consommer des agrocarburants.

support letter by members of the international “No! to ProSAVANA” campaign and of the “International Network of those Affected by Vale” to UNAC (União Nacional de Camponeses) in response to the threats and attempted physical attacks they suffered on 11 January 2016.

The ProSavana coordination team, together with the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, has resorted to enticement and has set out to co-opt national civil society organisations.

Canadian company developing plantations in the DRC announces new financing from a syndicate of European development funds, backed by Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK.

Une société new-yorkaise chargée de la gestion de l'épargne-retraite des travailleurs en Suède, aux États-Unis et au Canada se soustrait aux lois brésiliennes sur les investissements étrangers pour acquérir des terres agricoles

If Black Soil Capital Partners gets its way, the fields of Heilongjiang will be consolidated under long-term leases from farmers, giving way to a modern, industrialized US-style business model.

Emile Elmalem, le Directeur général des Grands moulins de Dakar (Gmd), a été emporté par un scandale financier dans lequel on retrouve Benjamin Dummai, ancien Directeur général de Senhuile Sa.

There have been more than 29 indigenous killed in just three regions of Tumpinambá lands in the state of Bahía, between 2013 and 2015.

Le ministère malien des Domaines de l’Etat et des Affaires foncières, Me Mohamed Ali Bathily, vient d’engager une lutte sans merci contre la fraude et la spéculation foncières.

Ian Scoones summarises some of the discussion at the PLAAS Cape Town conference on the engagement of Brazil, China and South Africa in patterns of agrarian change.

A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement, building new points of convergence unite movements working on issues from food sovereignty to land-grabbing, biofuels and climate justice.

Il ressort de notre enquête plus d’un million de victimes de l’accaparement des terres au Mali, écrit Lassana Coulibaly.

Jokplenu, an old community in the Volta Region of Ghana, owns lands on which Brazil Agro Business Group has taken over for a large scale rice farm.