Harvard, Saudi Arabia and The Vanguard Group are just a few of the investors who have been buying up Ukrainian land en masse, while many Ukrainian farmers argue it should stay in Ukrainian hands.

The Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice is an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments address the interconnected issues of hunger, land and resource grabs, and the climate crisis.

Communiqué et retour en vidéo sur le lancement officiel du projet agricole #YaakaareFuuta à Boghé (2 033 ha)

Le Kenya vient de conclure un accord avec la Zambie pour bénéficier d’une allocation de 20 000 hectares de terres agricoles.

Small farmers in Brazil are giving up on food crops and risking debt, lured by the big business of soy export.

Conversations with farmers in the Skagit Valley inspired a Democratic state legislator to propose to bar foreign entities from buying Washington State croplands.

A team of investors headed by the former Philippines Department of Agriculture Secretary has chosen Gabadi in the Kairuku District of Central Province as the ideal location for a large-scale rice farm.

Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.

The Cerrado, a wooded savannah in Brazil, remains a hotspot for deforestation as companies make the most of laws allowing more deforestation than in the Amazon

Private equity firms — notorious for buying up private companies, often with the goal of selling them quickly — have lately accelerated their investments in California wineries, targeting famous Napa Valley estates.

West Papuans in Merauke claim the Indonesian government is stealing land to build its global "food barn" and feed its population of 280 million.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.

En Europe, l'appropriation de terres agricoles par d'autres acteurs, tels que des investisseurs et des supermarchés, suscite des inquiétudes en faisant grimper les prix et en réduisant l'accès des futurs agriculteurs, ainsi qu'en menaçant la sécurité alimentaire et la durabilité de l'UE.

Témoignage d'un petit agriculteur sur le conflit qui oppose des villageois d'Apouh À Ngog, qui réclament un espace vital, à la Socapalm

Japan will bar foreigners from acquiring farmland if their visas are set to expire soon, in a bid to prevent misuse of such land amid high prices for rice and other food items, the farm ministry said.

Already in conflict with local communities over land grabbing, Plantation et Huilerie du Congo (PHC) has just acquired new concessions to expand its palm oil plantations in Boteka. This deprived local communities of nearly 2,500 hectares of arable land.

The Madhya Pradesh government plans to hand over between 10 and 1,000 hectares of forest land to private agencies for 60 years in which time they can plant species of their choice, trade in forest produce, and rate the forest for carbon sequestration to earn carbon credits.

Sous les palmiers à 6000 kilomètres de Fribourg, la colère ne faiblit pas dans une plantation d’Okomu, une filiale de Socfin, dont le commerce de matières premières passe par Fribourg.

The country’s improved railway connectivity facilitates fruit exports to China but has also sparked a boom in foreign-owned banana and durian farms, leading to deforestation.

Actividades ilegales como el narcotráfico, la minería ilegal y el acaparamiento de tierras son detonantes de la problemática.

COAG expone en un informe que el proceso por el que los agricultores pasan de trabajar sus tierras a ser empleados de grandes empresas contribuye a un descenso en el 59% de las explotaciones.

US court orders the IFC to pay nearly $5 million in reparations to members of Honduran land defense movements who faced violence at the hands of security forces linked to a Central American palm oil corporation that received a $30 mn World Bank loan in 2009.

The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.

L’autorité administrative dénonce des faits de violation de la loi foncière congolaise, lors de cette transaction foncière pour l’occupation de 42 000 hectares de terres dans le village Mushie-Pentane, sur une durée de 25 ans renouvelable.

The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.

Au Maroc, l’Agence pour le développement agricole vient de mettre en location plus de 5 200 hectares de terres agricoles appartenant à l’État au profit des investisseurs privés.

Une trentaine d’organisations accusent des banques de soutenir le Groupe Bolloré par leurs concours financiers et leur silence, face aux accusations de violations des droits humains dénoncés par le Conseil d’Éthique du Fonds de pension norvégien dans les plantations de sa filiale, la Société financière des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), au Cameroun.

Con desechos de la minería, industria de madera de balsa y de palma aceitera, los ríos e y la gente de la comunidad de Barranquilla siguen contaminadas. La comunidad ubicada en Esmeraldas, hace más de 20 años, disputa sus tierras con la empresa de palma aceitera Energy & Palma, parte del grupo empresarial La Fabril.

Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up