farmlandgrab.org

English

Take your hands off the earth!
- Slow Food
- 28 September 2016
Activists from six countries as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples joined a recent Terra Madre Forum on land grabbing, “Take Your Hands Off The Earth”.
Palm oil profits trump self-sufficiency in Sierra Leone
- Deutsche Welle
- 28 September 2016
Socfin's most recent project is in Sierra Leone. The country possesses massive amounts of land where oil palm production could thrive and a government that is willing to hand over this land to investors for not that much money.
Foreign land register: Do the figures stand up to scrutiny?
- Beef Central
- 28 September 2016
Since the day it was released, the accuracy of the Australian government’s Foreign Owned Agricultural Land Register has come into question, with rural industry stakeholders disputing the amount of land actually held by Chinese interests
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.
Global land rush enters "more dangerous stage", says anti-poverty group
- Reuters
- 28 September 2016
International land deals, often for giant agriculture projects, now cover an area the size of Germany and a growing share are getting up and running, fuelling fears that local residents will be displaced.
Murder and eviction: the global land rush enters new more violent phase
- Oxfam
- 28 September 2016
Millions of people face being displaced from their homes as new data shows land sales covering an area the size of Germany are now under contract, warns Oxfam.
Sierra Leone’s farmers continue to fight multinational land grabs
- Equal Times
- 28 September 2016
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country
Ill-gotten lands: Deforestation and isolation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco
- IDM
- 28 September 2016
When the government of Paraguay enacted a law banning deforestation in 2004, it marked what might have become one of the most significant success stories in global forest conservation. Instead, it helped spark one of the world’s most pressing environmental crises.
Miracle or mirage? Manufacturing hunger and poverty in Ethiopia
- Oakland Institute
- 27 September 2016
Report exposes how authoritarian development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and marginalized the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
Food supply fears spark China land grab
- Climate News Network
- 26 September 2016
With the impacts of climate change threatening food supply as population grows, China is buying land on other continents to grow more crops.
Expansion into palm oil's 'new frontier' snags on land muddles
- Agrimoney
- 26 September 2016
Expansion of palm oil producers into Latin America, the "new frontier for global expansion" is snagging on confusion over land rights – which is encouraging some groups to expand into rainforest.
The tentacles of Bollore-Socfin stretch far and wide
- ACORN
- 24 September 2016
Bollore seems to think all of the countries in central Africa are colonies there for its private exploitation and its own financial bottom line.