UK-based company uses the idea of helping African communities, together with deception around yields and profits, to lure investors–including retired individuals–into handing over their life savings.

"Significant" large-scale plantation projects are said to be in development in Indonesia, the Philippines and West Africa.

The Gravitazz Continental Intiative and the Forum for African Investigative Reporters are offering fellowships to feature writers across Africa, who wish to undertake an investigation into underreported land transactions.

Farmland investments are outperforming stocks and investors are noticing, says Ding Xuedong, CEO of the China Investment Corporation

Concernant la location des terres, le ministre d’État chargé des infrastructures et de l’aménagement du territoire évoque la possibilité de révision de la durée du bail emphytéotique qui est actuellement de 99 ans mais aussi la mise en place de nouvelles modalités.

NGOs in Germany accuse the public development agency DEG of promoting land grabbing in developing and newly industrialised countries and blames the German government for not taking the issue seriously.

GRAIN, l'Oakland Institute et le World Rainforest Movement appellent Herakles et le gouvernement camerounais à abandonner toutes les charges pesant sur Nasako Besingi et ses camarades militants et engager un dialogue de bonne foi avec les communautés locales qui cherchent à défendre leurs terres.

GRAIN, the Oakland Institute and the World Rainforest Movement call on Herakles and the Cameroonian government to drop all charges against Nasako Besingi and his fellow activists and instead engage in good faith with local communities seeking to defend their lands.

"There is a big Swiss company buying up 5 per cent of our pastoral land. Japan and Australia both have invested plenty in New Zealand land and the northern Europeans are buying farms in the South Island. But do we hear anything about that?"

PNG court revokes two 99 year land titles awarded to Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK) of Malaysia following complaints of land grabbing by customary landowners in Collingwood Bay, Oro province.

Over the past few years Hassad Australia has amassed a property portfolio of 14 major wheat and sheep farms or clusters of properties across four states, covering 287,000ha.

Coca-Cola, uno de los principales patrocinadores de la Copa del Mundo, está involucrada en el escándalo del acaparamiento de tierras que ha llevado muerte y miseria a los guaraníes.