Ghana

Host country governance and the African land rush
- Geoforum
- 16 December 2016
George Schoneveld of CIFOR provides 7 reasons why large-scale farmland investments fail to contribute to sustainable development
Ghana to lose over $3m project over land dispute
- Starr FM
- 28 September 2016
AgDevCo, a company financed through the UK's DFID, is embroiled in a land conflict concerning its 3,800 Farming Hub project in Babator, Ghana.
AFJN Executive Director’s opening remarks at the National Forum on Land Grabbing in Accra, Ghana
- AFJN
- 29 August 2016
There is an epidemic that grips Africa, says Father Aniedi Okure
The church in Ghana speaks out on the issue of land grabbing
- Vatican Radio
- 29 August 2016
The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.
Report on 'land grabbing in Ghana' launched
- Ghana News Agency
- 24 August 2016
The National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with Caritas Ghana and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Development has launched a joint report on ‘land grabbing’ in Ghana.
Chinese, Brazilian and Indian investments in African agriculture: impacts, opportunities and concerns
- Curtis Research
- 01 July 2016
New report for Acord International says land grabs are not a generalised feature of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian investment in African agriculture but some do raise major concerns
Land investments, accountability and the law: Lessons from West Africa
- IIED
- 31 May 2016
The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment.
Ghana: Komenda sugar factory to be inaugurated today
- Business World
- 30 May 2016
The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India provided $35 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory project, which includes the development of 3,000 hectares of irrigable land.
Ghana: Lands Commission to regulate land acquisitions by investors
- Ghana Web
- 28 May 2016
USAID is helping Ghana introduce guidelines for large-scale land transactions and address the dip in foreign direct investment that has arisen due to controversial land deals
98- year old, blind Elizabeth has to give way for palm oil plantation
- LJ4WA
- 19 May 2016
Thousands of people are being disenfranchised, evicted and deprived of their livelihoods near Kade, Eastern Region of Ghana, by the Belgian oil palm plantation company GOPDC.
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems
- China File
- 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.
China and Brazil in African agriculture
- World Development
- 10 May 2016
Special issue of World Development suggests a key feature of Brazilian and Chinese engagements in African agriculture is the role of state–business relations in shaping and steering development, suggesting new forms of developmentalism.

Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia