The "Green Pakistan Initiative" is fast tracking Gulf agribusiness deals. Saudi & UAE firms are investing billions in Pakistani farmland, while local communities warn of land grabs & water shortages.

The 10 largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report. This accumulation fuels human rights abuse, inequalities, and environmental destruction, and underlines the need for redistributive policies.

How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

« L'idée de la campagne contre Bolloré est née comme un nouveau front antifasciste, totalement connecté aux préoccupations initiales des Soulèvements de la Terre que sont la lutte contre l'artificialisation et l'accaparement des terres et de l'eau. »

This article and podcast tell the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.

"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."

Le groupe de l’industriel breton va vendre 5 % du capital de la Socfin, sa filiale qui exploite des cultures d’hévéas et de palmiers à huile en Afrique et en Asie. Il a d’ores et déjà renoncé à ses droits de vote.

Nettie Webbie, membre fondatrice de La Via Campesina, a souligné les pressions croissantes sur les terres agricoles dans une interview avec Think Ink

Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.

Cette vidéo explore le phénomène inquiétant de l’accaparement des terres agricoles en France.

Les terres agricoles françaises sont de plus en plus la propriété d’entreprises ou d’investisseurs. Avec la montée en puissance de cette « agriculture sociétaire » et l’emprise croissante des coopératives et firmes agroalimentaires qui leur dictent leurs pratiques, les agriculteurs se retrouvent en situation de « quasi salariat ».

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

“The problem we have here is the replanting by SOCAPALM and we are asking for vital space for our survival, but SOCAPALM does not want to cooperate,” Yomba Bernard, a notable of Apouh told The Guardian Post.

The cancellation of the title followed a public outcry that it was illegally issued to two individuals, as well as another suspension of a 2,300 ha land title in the same district that had been claimed by Terra Agri Solutions Ltd for a commercial farm.

Defence Front for the Interests of Santa Clara de Uchunya condemn the smear campaign of the company Ocho Sur and demand its withdrawal from their ancestral territory

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.

Extractivism does not only concern mining, but also agriculture. Investments, such as those made by Senhuile in the Senegal delta, are part of large programs of landscape and social re-engineering in the context of a juncture between “green capitalism” and food security paradigms.

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.

African Agriculture Inc, a US company which controls almost 3 million hectares for alfalfa and carbon credit production in Africa, will now be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Le magazine annuel de FIAN Belgium présente des témoignages sur la repression contre les defenseurs des terres face à des entreprises comme SIAT, PHC/Feronia ou Socfin/Bolloré

Bloomberg exposé on Frank Timis' plan to turn Les Fermes de la Teranga (ex-Senhuile) into a major source of animal feed for the Gulf States and the implications for Dakar's water supply

Au Congo-Brazzaville, le projet BaCaSi mené par TotalEnergies pour compenser ses émissions de gaz à effets de serre prévoit la plantation d’acacias sur 38 000 hectares de terre. Alerté par la Commission diocésaine Justice et paix de Pointe-Noire (CDJP), le CCFD-Terre Solidaire se mobilise pour obtenir une meilleure prise en compte des populations impactées par le projet.

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.

Investigation uncovers how the Okumu Oil Palm Company PLC's craze for rubber and palm kernel has been linked to displacement of indigenous people, deforestation, and rights violations in Nigeria.

Une poignée d’investisseurs et d’entreprises agricoles auraient acquis plusieurs terres agricoles dans La Mitis sans pour autant les exploiter

Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.

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

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.