Les conclusions de l’enquête publiées le 30 mai 2024 par le cabinet de conseil en environnement Earthworm Foundation confirment des allégations de violations des droits humains dans les plantations de la Safacam, une entité de la holding Socfin,

Con la justificativa de destinar tierras a los campesinos, Proyecto de Ley pretende destinar titulo de propiedad individual de la tierra en zonas de reserva forestal sin aclarar si permite la ganadería y amnistías por el delito de deforestación para los productores ocupantes. Lo que puede se convirtir en la legalización del acaparamiento de tierras.

On May 7, 2024, Lipton announced the sale of its Kenyan tea estates to LOLC Holdings PLC. The tea estates are on land that was violently seized from the Kipsigis and Talai clans by the British army in the early 20th century.

A new report has found that investors and agribusiness in Latin America are increasingly buying up small parcels of land with abundant water access, thus securing control over the vital resource.

The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.

The alleged plan for the sale of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) by its parent company Socfin, has raised concerns among civil society organizations and communities affected by the operations of the company amid the ongoing lawsuit for forcefully taking local community land to extend their rubber plantations.

Governo de Moçambique e a União Brasileira do Biodiesel e Bioquerosene (Ubrabio) assinaram acordo para ampliar investimentos na expansão de produção de biodiesel sobre os 36 milhões de ha de terras agricultáveis do país. As gigantes da energia Total e Eni já estudam de biodiesel a partir do coco, palma e caroço de algodão, algo que pode modificar o controle sobre a terra no país por corporações.

For Israeli businessman Benny Steinmetz, a dispute over a land deal he made in Romania has been the source of many of his recent legal woes, including arrests in Israel, Greece and, most recently, Cyprus.

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation to produce bioethanol. But Indigenous communities and environmentalists worry that the project in South Papua’s Merauke regency will lead to land grabs, ecological damage, and the destruction of traditional livelihoods.

Después de 14 años de luchas de las comunidades campesinas que afirman que se tratan de tierras de la nación, la Agencia Nacional de Tierras no logra recuperar y destinar las tierras a las comunidades, y la palma de aceite sigue imponente frente al agua.

Des organisations de la société civile libérienne, ouest-africaine et internationale, ainsi que des individus et communautés locales, sont alarmés par la nouvelle selon laquelle le géant d'hévéas Socfin cherche à céder ses parts dans la Salala Rubber Corporation sans d'abord régler ses dettes sociales, environnementales, culturelles, financières et économiques à l'égard des communautés affectées

Liberian, West African and international civil society organizations, communities and individuals are alarmed by news that SRC’s parent company, Socfin, is seeking to divest its shares in SRC without first settling its social, environmental, cultural, financial, and economic debts to affected communities.

Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.

Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices

Les grandes familles agricoles demeurent les plus grands joueurs au pays, mais les investisseurs institutionnels et les spéculateurs gagnent du terrain dans l'Ontario, au Canada

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.

For the World Bank guaranteeing land tenure means business security for large investors, but for small scale producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, and grassroots communities it means land grabbing and displacement

« Créer un produit financier à partir de la terre agricole », comme le propose le gouvernement français, « c'est dangereux et ce n'est pas adapté », a déclaré mercredi le président de la Safer, un organe de régulation du foncier.

The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.

“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.

L’accaparement des terres contre la volonté des communautés d’agriculteurs constitue actuellement une véritable bombe sociale à retardement en Mauritanie

Le Sahara algérien est aussi en passe de devenir le grenier du pays grâce à l’essor de nombreuses filières agricoles -- et des investissements saoudiens, italiens, qataris et turques.

Des communautés à Madagascar subissent des intimidations et des fortes pressions de la part de l'entreprise italienne Tozzi Green qui voudrait produire des crédits carbone sur 11 000 hectares dans la région d'Ihorombe, selon des associations paysannes et ONG

Villagers in Madagascar are suffering intimidation and heavy pressure from the Italian company Tozzi Green, which now wants to produce carbon credits on 11,000 hectares of farmland in the Ihorombe region, say farmers organisations and NGOs

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.

A study shows non-farmers bought more than half the farms and estates sold on the open market in England in 2023, with private investors involved in 28% of transactions and institutional investors in 13% – a rise of 10% on 2022 levels.

New study exposes how land grabs in various forms have led to doubling land prices globally since 2008, and tripling in Central Europe, placing unprecedented strain on farmers and rural communities.

Empresas vendem crédito de carbono no mercado voluntário, enquanto País demora para criar ambiente regulado; União Europeia e Nova Zelândia saem na frente

L’accaparement des terres à des fins environnementales - des projets de compensation carbone et de biodiversité, ainsi que des initiatives de conservation ou de production de carburants propres - représentent environ 20 % des transactions foncières à grande échelle, selon l’IPES