Any action by the PNG government to address the SABL land grab and illegal logging is very welcome - but landowners have been waiting two years, not six months as the Chief Secretary claims

The special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies demonstrates that political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed.

A Chinese-backed company’s dealings with a family were put under the blowtorch yesterday at the start of a Supreme Court trial into the collapse of an $8 million deal to buy farmland in Western Australia

«Le protocole d’accord, c’est de la mascarade. C’était initié par le gouverneur de la région de Saint-Louis pour dire que les populations sont d’accord sur le projet alors que ce n’est pas le cas».

O Prosavana, um megaprojeto agrícola do executivo moçambicano para o norte do país, espera ter o plano diretor do programa aprovado pelo Governo até ao final do ano e assegurou hoje que nenhum camponês será expulso das suas terras.

Segundo as organizações, o projeto foi apresentado secretamente ao Governo moçambicano em janeiro de 2014 e já está no Conselho de Ministros aguardando aprovação.

Of the 600 hectares of farmland that KAI has cleared and prepared, roughly 250 hectares will be dedicated to the chia, with sweet sorghum to be planted next.

In 2013 NDC of Tanzania inked a deal with Nava Bharat Pte Ltd of Singapore (NBS) to put up an oil palm farm and processing plant. The joint venture agreement was valued at $111 million.

The government has tasked state-owned fertilizer maker Pupuk Indonesia to raise Rp 7 trillion ($534 million) to clear and develop 750,000 hectares of rice fields in Papua, a senior official said over the weekend.

A $250 million loan package is being prepared to support foreign investment in farms in Mindanao

Investigations reveal that 1,300 people are at risk of losing their land to make way for a sugarcane plantation, which is a flagship project of the G7’s initiative to increase agricultural investment in Africa.

NO PALM (Network Opposed to Oil Palm Plantations) established during National Oil Palm Conference held in Davao City on May 9-10 serve as a platform and stepping stone for a broad and strong mass movement against rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the Philippines.