This policy brief gives a brief overview of the available evidence of large-scale Chinese investment in agriculture, then discusses the extent to which the purpose of such investment is to export produce back to China.
Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
“The Emiratis are farming and have withdrawn so much water from the ground that the entire town of Wenden has sunk by four feet,”
It is unfortunate that even as deals that involve land which should belong to the people of Pakistan are struck, there has been so little public debate about the plan. We need to be informed of what is planned. Protests need too to be mobilized. In the prevailing political environment of Pakistan, the people who stand to lose the most have almost no spokesmen.
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
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price
Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.
The sale of Cubbie Station to a Chinese-led consortium has divided Australia on the issue of foreign investment.
The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
In December 2012, on the sidelines of Islamic business forum in Malaysia, a man made a bold claim said his company, Menara Group held the rights to 4,000 square kilometres of rainforest for oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The basis of his claim was Tanah Merah project in Boven Digoel, Papua.
Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.
Today, on the heels of Ukraine’s new cabinet appointments, the Oakland Institute is releasing a new brief detailing western agribusiness investments in the country.
New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.
Storebrand, the largest private pension fund in the Nordic region, is divesting its shares in eleven of the twelve palm oil companies in which it is invested.
On Feb. 14, four days before Armenia's highly contested presidential election, Hasmik Evoyan and others protested the sheep deal in front of Armenia's National Assembly building in Yerevan.
Governments in developing countries should exercise caution when granting land concessions to foreign governments and corporations. Despite the short-term investments, most – if not all – of the production will be exported, making the long-term food security situation even worse in these host countries.
As the increase in oil prices continue to help boost the income of Persian Gulf nations, Turkey is becoming a magnet for Gulf-based investors aiming to establish strategic food reserves
The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.
The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo.
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.
Liberia's Jogbahn Clan is at the forefront of efforts to resist the grab of land and forests for palm oil plantations. But the country's President says they are only 'harrassing and extorting' international investors.
Over 100 women from seven continents joined the International Womens Alliance (IWA) which focused on landlessness and widespread land grabbing.
In Europe, the appropriation of agricultural land by other actors, such as investors and supermarkets, raises concerns by driving up prices and reducing access for future farmers, as well as threatening food security and the sustainability of the EU.
Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.
Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness
Three leading climate and human rights nonprofits have asked the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague to pursue rampant “land grabbing” by the government of Cambodia and its commerce partners as a crime against humanity under the court’s jurisdiction.
The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established.
Investigative Journalism and critical analysis into land issues currently affecting rural communities would not only reveal malpractices in land issues but also provide a voice for the voiceless in rural communities.
The Funds will invest in agricultural, renewable energy plantations and forestry businesses, with a fundamental principal of owning the core assets through the funds with the management of all operations carried out by established operators in the region.
