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The digitalisation of land: more data, less land
- GRAIN
- 15 April 2022
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
Letter from the women neighbouring Socapalm Edéa to President Paul Biya
- AFRISE
- 26 May 2023
The Association of Women Living Alongside Socapalm Edéa (AFRISE), whose rights have been violated by Socapalm in Edéa, take their demands to the President of Cameroon
The land investment story - fear of unchecked land grabs
- CSR Asia
- 03 February 2010
The Indonesian government is wise to learn from the South Korea Daewoo-Madagascar deal, which demonstrated the enormous economic, social and political risks associated with foreign ownership of land and water rights.
The 'change we need'? Obama in Ghana
- Pambazuka
- 09 July 2009
A focus on agricultural productivity should not become a cover for foreign private companies to grab land or impose expensive, input-intensive methods in the name of modernisation.
Turning African farmland over to big business: The US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2010
MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
Land grabs & the Canadian connection
- Watershed Sentinel
- 07 Mar 2013
Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.
Position statement: Agro-industries
- Standard Chartered
- 25 October 2018
Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness
Indonesia taken to task over MIFEE
- Down to Earth
- 30 November 2011
The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.
Much tilling without harvest
- Zawya
- 16 April 2009
Essentially, the Middle East is left with two choices. “The region has to import. The question is, invest abroad or rely on the free market?” said Dr Eckart Woertz, program manager in economics at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.
Brazil: Stop land grabbing and violence for “fair and sustainable” palm oil!
- Rainforest Rescue
- 30 Mar 2023
Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma is certified as organic, fair and sustainable, and the oil is sold to food giants like Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé. But much of the plantation land of this purported model company was likely grabbed illegally.
Secret Acres: Foreign-owned agricultural land inaccurately tracked by government
- Investigate TV
- 26 January 2022
Despite a federal law requiring foreign transactions of agricultural land be reported to and recorded by the government, the US Department of Agriculture’s database appears to be missing significant acres of land.
Firm shows how to `farm at end of a long dirt road`
- IPP Media
- 16 June 2011
Kilombero Plantations Limited chief executive officer Carter Coleman talks about his company's large-scale farming operations in Tanzania, including the removal of the "Project Affected Persons" previously farming the lands.
Socfin exploitation of rubber & palm oil linked to deforestation & human rights abuses in Ghana & Nigeria
- iWatch Africa
- 06 November 2023
A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.
Harvard and TIAA's farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
- FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
- 22 October 2019
Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.
Karuturi arm in PE deal talks to raise $100m
- VC Circle
- 09 February 2010
Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
Africa-ME 'agricultural tie-up ideal'
- Trade Arabia
- 22 July 2010
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.
Three years of MIFEE: A growing movement against plantations in West Papua
- Awas MIFEE
- 23 October 2013
Throughout Merauke Regency in the southern part of West Papua, a land controversially annexed by Indonesia 50 years ago, indigenous communities are having to learn fast how to resist corporate manipulations.
Responsible farmland investing? Current efforts to regulate land grabs will make things worse
- GRAIN
- 22 August 2012
From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. Rather than help financial and corporate elites to "responsibly invest" in farmland, we need them to stop and divest.
Land grabbing by agribusiness also claims lives in Latin America
- GRAIN
- 06 Mar 2020
Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands of the Wichi people, where, in the first months of 2020, nine children died from malnutrition and lack of water.
Meles Zenawi says no land grab in Ethiopia—not today, not tomorrow
- tramnsformingethiopia
- 11 August 2011
The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.
SOCFIN’s plantations in Africa: Many places of violence and destruction
- WRM
- 24 September 2017
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.
Philippines islanders unite to resist "land grab" palm oil companies
- Truth-out
- 10 January 2016
Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support. Those who resist the land grabs are now in fear for their lives following the murder of a prominent campaigner.
First global donor working group on land
- Donor Platform
- 01 September 2013
On the margins of the annual World Bank land and poverty conference in April a donor roundtable agreed to establish a first global donor working group on land, which was launched recently. Video interview with the first chair of the group, from DFID.
Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa
- Pambazuka
- 09 December 2011
Oakland Institute speaks about the findings of their latest round of in-depth research into land grabs in Africa.
Karuturi eyes $150M fundraise for Africa push
- VC Circle
- 07 July 2010
Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
Le Millennium Challenge Corporation américain : l’Afrique livrée au big business
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2010
Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines
Foreign investment fears unfounded: report
- NZ Herald
- 18 August 2010
Fears foreign interests have been mounting a major land grab in New Zealand, have been shot down by global accountancy firm KPMG.