President of UNAC, Augusto Mafigo (right) and UNAC technical staffer Vicente Adriano in Japan to present a letter to the Government of Japan calling for a halt to the ProSavana Project.

A rural settlement in Puraquequara, Brazil, a country where food crops are being increasingly replaced with soy and palm. (Photo: Patrick Cunningham/Alamy)

Plants de palmiers à huile sur la plantation de Socfin (Photo : Felicity Thompson/IRIN)

Eddy Kamara was among villagers arrested for blockading Socfin's land in Malen. (Photo: Oakland Institute)

Karuturi has invested almost Rs. 1000 crore on their project in Gambella, Ethiopia. Photo: Aman Sethi

UNAC President Augusto Mafigo (centre) was in Japan on May 28, 2013 to present the peasant union's position on ProSavana to members of the Japanese national parliament.

The land by Boegbor, a town in district four in Grand Bassa County, Liberia has been leased by the government to Equatorial Palm Oil for 50 years. Credit: Wade C.L. Williams/IPS

Leaders and members of the Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas and Resist Apeco! Defend Aurora Movement plank on large rocks lining the breakwater area in front of the Senate compound in Pasay, calling on the Senate stop the Apeco project on its tracks. (Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com) Mamamalakaya ng PilipinL

"La ruée vers nos terres n’est pas forcément une mauvaise chose", a soutenu la commissaire Mme Peace Tumusine de l'Union Africaine. (photo : IISD)

Mr O: The identity of the man who is suing DFID cannot be revealed because of safety reasons

Diéry Gaye au FSM 2013 (Oxfam France)

Ibrahima Coulibaly au FSM 2013 (Oxfam France)

Harris Morris, de Johnsonville au Liberia, montre son terrain qui, selon lui, a été vendu à une autre personne. Photo: Prince Collins/IRIN

En fusionnant, Agrogeneration et Harmelia conôlent désormais 120.000 ha en Ukraine

« Cela ne peut être une bonne nouvelle de manière absolue, » estime Samuel Nguiffo. (Photo : http://www.palmwatchafrica.org)

SIAT Gabon has four concessions totalling 15,712 hectares for oil palm production.

A Sudanese woman sorts sorghum grains after threshing on a field near Mukjar in Western Darfur, Sudan, 09 December 2007. Photo by: Peter Steffen/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images