Land grab update: Mozambique, Africa still in the crosshairs
    Is land-grabbing over, in Mozambique and across Africa and the rest of the developing world? Now that crop and food prices have returned to their usual punishingly low levels, is the pressure off from foreign buyers looking to acquire large tracts of agricultural lands?
    • Truthout
    • 15 November 2016
    Land grab update: Mozambique, Africa still in the crosshairs
    Mozambique’s rural communities remain on high alert, even as they successfully repel many of the largest land grabs.
    • FoodTank
    • 01 November 2016
    History repeats as farce: Giving away land without consultation in Mozambique
    The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.
    • FoodTank
    • 19 May 2015
    Growing resistance: The rise and fall of another Mozambique land grab
    The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed to have an emerging-market hubris every bit as blinding as that of their colonial predecessors.
    • GDAE
    • 30 May 2018
    Turning African farmland over to big business: The US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation
    MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
    • GRAIN
    • 30 April 2010
    The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
    Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
    • GRAIN
    • 14 June 2016
    Accaparement mondial des terres agricoles en 2016 : ampleur et impact
    Huit ans après la publication de son premier rapport sur l'accaparement des terres, GRAIN publie un nouvel ensemble de données qui offre des précisions sur près de 500 cas d'accaparement des terres dans le monde entier.
    • GRAIN
    • 12 July 2016
    A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania
    Tanzania’s experience in the global land grab post-2008 led to shattered hopes, land conflicts & misery for small farmers. Yet, the current govt risks repeating history. A new report looks at this critical moment for Tanzania's small farmers & pastoralists.
    • GRAIN
    • 02 February 2024
    Twenty-first-century land grabs: Accumulation by agricultural dispossession
    For the world’s people to have secure access to the quantity and quality of food needed for a decent life, the land grabs and the development of large, highly mechanized factory farms must stop.
    • Monthly Review
    • 02 November 2013
    BRICS grab African land and sovereignty
    BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
    • Pambazuka
    • 28 Mar 2013
    Harvard's billion-dollar farmland fiasco
    One of the world's major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard University's controversial investments in global farmland.
    • GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
    • 06 September 2018
    Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa
    Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.
    • Pambazuka
    • 09 December 2011
    The global land rush: Catalyst for resource-driven conflict?
    Given the power imbalances at play, it is folly to assume that land-seekers will suddenly embrace, en masse, a set of voluntary rules promoting sustainable and equitable investor practices, says Michael Kugelman
    • Sustainable Security
    • 02 August 2012
    Grabbing Africa
    The global rush to acquire agricultural land in bountiful Africa evokes concern and protests.
    • Frontline
    • 20 April 2010
    China and the great global landgrab
    Stephen Marks looks at the latest rush by China and countries in the middle east to sign lease agreements in poor countries for agricultural production, and what this trend means in terms of food security and access to arable land for local populations.
    • Pambazuka
    • 11 December 2008
    Africa and the end of hunger
    Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
    • Pambazuka
    • 16 July 2009
    The untouchables. Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations
    Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.
    • Foreign Policy
    • 11 April 2016
    CGIAR joins global farmland grab
    An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
    • GRAIN
    • 08 September 2009
    Land grabbing: exploring challenges and implications for water, energy and food security
    Conversation with Maria Antonelli about the main drivers and implications of land transactions around the world, with a particular focus both on the role of EU.
    • ClimateScience&Policy
    • 22 October 2014
    Land grabs: the threat to African women’s livelihoods
    Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in the domain of human rights, it is silent on the issue of land grabs. This is a gap that the AU needs to plug.
    • Open Democracy
    • 10 February 2012
    Africa is 'the Brazil of the 1970s' in agriculture
    Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.
    • Agrimoney
    • 07 May 2013
    Africa-ME 'agricultural tie-up ideal'
    Africa's untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said.
    • Trade Arabia
    • 22 July 2010
    Land grabbing: New colonialism and how about Eritrea?
    Eritrean law blocking foreign investors from owning land and the country's desire for self-reliance makes it highly unlikely that it will fall for the neocolonial phenomenon of land grabbing.
    • Geeska Afrika
    • 29 December 2016
    Water scarcity, food security concerns prompt global land grab
    Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations
    • Circle of Blue
    • 17 November 2009
    The South Africa-Congo concession: Exploitation or salvation?
    The much-discussed Congo land-lease, granting 200,000 hectares to South African farmers with a further 10 million hectares in the balance, appears to mark a departure from the usual terms underpinning foreign acquisition of fertile land by multinationals
    • Pambazuka
    • 07 January 2010
    Karuturi: A litany of trouble
    Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion
    • TJN et al
    • 22 April 2013
    Karuturi : une litanie de problèmes
    Karuturi Global Limited, société holding de droit indien et dont le siège est situé à Bangalore, peut se retrouver sous la loupe de l'administration fiscale du Kenya pour fraude fiscale, mais les plaintes déposées contre elle vont plus loin.
    • TJN et al
    • 22 April 2013
    Africa investment sparks land grab fear
    For investors like Susan Payne, the chief executive of Emergent Asset Management, farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is a hot bet.
    • BBC
    • 05 August 2009
    Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists
    A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs
    • The Independent
    • 09 August 2009
    Le CGIAR impliqué dans l’accaparement des terres au niveau mondial
    Un document interne, récemment mis en ligne sur le site web de l’IRRI, révèle que l’Institut a conseillé l’Arabie saoudite dans le contexte de sa stratégie d’acquisition de terres agricoles à l’étranger pour sa propre production alimentaire.
    • GRAIN
    • 10 September 2009
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