The fact that fewer new investments are being publicly recorded does not mean we should be complacent. Past deals are now being implemented, and communities are feeling the squeeze. Helping them obtain redress when violations occur is a priority.
Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are compensated or resettled during commercial land deals in Africa.
Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
Around 100 Nagari Maligi residents (‘nagari’ means village in the local language) have been protesting for days at the Wilmar Group’s representative office in West Pasaman, Sumatra, Indonesia since March 9.
The World Bank is financing a land titling program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and illegally occupied by big agribusiness companies.
The Italian agribusiness investors are interested in land leasing with ready engineering and transport infrastructure and access to the Chinese and Russian markets
Multiple elements are driving farmland values up such as purchases by agriculture multinationals and by institutional investors such as pension funds and trusts.
The Central Asia region has become a hot investment destination for Chinese agricultural firms, such as Huangfanqu Farm in Tajikistan.
Handing over natural resources like land to corporations and destroying small-scale agriculture will not reduce poverty.
During the event investment opportunities and the potential of Kazakhstan in the agricultural sector were presented to 60 Dutch businessmen
Dubai-based agriculture and food company Phoenix Group will invest in debt-laden Kenya operations of rose exporter Karuturi Global Ltd.
