Civil society organizations should strengthen and support national and regional networks working against AGRA and land grabs in Africa, say Friends of the Earth and allies

Oman has decided to appoint a specialist company to prepare the Sultanate's national strategy for food security.

I wonder why the people (and more importantly the political leaders and elite) of the African and Latin American countries are not opposing and driving these companies out from within their national borders. The reason is simple. The rich and elite of every country is the real beneficiary of the process of globalisation.

We challenge the line agencies, legislators and national government to immediately stop the leasing of public land to foreign corporations. Instead, public lands that have huge potential to ensure food security and nation building should be distributed to Filipino small farmers.

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

The federal government through the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority (LNRBDA) Ilorin, formally allocated 4,000 hectares of farmland to Origin Tech Group to carry out mechanised agriculture in Ejiba, Kogi state, in line with national food security agenda of President Bola Tinubu.

The Italian agricultural group Bf Spa, in partnership with the Algerian National Investment Fund (Fni), is launching this high-tech regenerative farming initiative that will initially cultivate 3,000 hectares of durum wheat, with plans to expand to 10,000 hectares of dried legumes.

The president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has set a strategic objective to extend the cultivated area in the south to 500,000 hectares, including investments from Qatar for 117.,000 hectares and from Italy for 36,000 hectares, as well as national investments for 120,000 hectares.

The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has opened up 21,000 acres of idle land belonging to the National Youth Service and Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority for commercial leases to boost food security.

In the US, the National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year.

Au niveau local, l’ONG aide les communautés agricoles à mieux se protéger face aux investisseurs. Sur le plan national, elle plaide pour une révision de la loi.

Canada's National Farmers Union applauds the efforts by two provincial members of parliament tabled in their respective provincial legislatures this spring and attempt to curb farmland grabbing by powerful financial actors.

La pandémie et la récession qui l’a accompagnée ont eu un effet dévastateur sur les revenus et les moyens de subsistance des travailleur∙euse∙s dans la région MENA. Dans le même temps, l’accaparement des terres, de l’eau et des semences par le capital national et étranger s’est poursuivi.

An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.

The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in Almarai, the National Agricultural Development Company, and the Saudi Fisheries Company to the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).

Zimbabwe's National Social Security Authority says it will begin to shift some of its investments to agriculture value chains such as maize, wheat, soya and export crops such as macadamia and blue berries.

Le débat national sur les conflits fonciers nécessite que l’on réexamine les dossiers fonciers en attente d’un traitement urgent et de prises de décisions étatiques publiques tout aussi urgentes concernant les terres du département de Dagana dans le Waalo. Nous commençons cette analyse avec la commune de Mbane, écrit Yassine Fall.

"The Senhuile land-grab is an ongoing process, whose trajectory will depend on the possibility to construct and strengthen alliances among farmers’ and herders’ groups at local, regional and national levels to ensure recognition of pastoral land rights" says Maura Benegiamo

Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity

Macquarie-backed Viridis Ag has bulked up its national broadacre cropping portfolio, buying a 356-hectare property in Belubula Valley, amid a steady stream of blue-chip farming deals in Australia.

If a national referendum on the sale of agricultural land was held in the next week, 74% would vote against the sale of land as required by the IMF, Ukranian researchers show

Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.

Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.

New report shines a spotlight on the ongoing resistance to land grabs and provides recommendations calling for immediate action, not only by the PNG government but also various UN bodies and national governments.

More detail surrounding foreign ownership of Australia’s agricultural assets should be made publicly available, the National Farmers’ Federation says.

The AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative and the government of Madagascar organised a workshop to validate the Country Report and Business Plan on Mainstreaming Land Governance in the National Agricultural Investment Plan.

South Korea government has designated part of the Korea National Food Cluster, or Foodpolis, as a foreign investment zone (FIZ), making it easier for the cluster to attract global food firms seeking to set up a base in Northeast Asia.

Le Point de Contact National belge de l’OCDE vient de mettre fin à son rôle de médiateur dans l’affaire de la Socapalm, une affaire impliquant le groupe Bolloré et la Socfin d’un côté et des ONG telles que Sherpa de l’autre.

Resistance to the Chinese sugar company Rui Feng is now embodied in Khum Rany, the 27-year-old Cambodia National Rescue Party commune chief candidate, who has staked her campaign on the issue.

Economic Commission for Africa and African Union representatives agree on the need for agricultural investment models that minimize land transfers and lead to shared prosperity at local and national levels.