On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.

Pour amener les populations vivant dans des zones marqués par l'accaparement des terres à jouir de leurs droits, l'association Sherpa compte les former sur les responsabiltés sociales des entreprises

Ministres africains ou latino-américains, représentants d'ONG et de grandes entreprises sont rassemblés à Interlaken, en Suisse. Objectif : bouleverser la donne foncière.

"Insto nuevamente al señor Presidente de la República, Juan Manuel Santos, para que le aclare al país cuanto antes los intereses que diferentes personas de su entorno tengan en compras de tierras de la Altillanura".

Food companies in the North have always purchased land in the global South to produce export crops. What is different today is the unprecedented scale of these purchases and the kinds of crops that are being grown.

This article documents some of the ProSAVANA programme’s practices during its planning phase and analyses its limitations in terms of preventing the inherent risks of contract farming schemes.

Of the 42 Special Agricultural Business Leases examined only four secured consent of local landowners and had viable agricultural projects.

Large-scale agricultural projects in Cambodia as well as in parts Africa have driven small-holder farmers into wage labour out of distress.

UK-based Agriterra, which controls 21,000 ha of farmland in Africa, provides an update on its 3,200 ha cocoa plantation in Sierra Leone.

Phatisa has already invested $84 million into nine projects in seven African countries, ranging from palm oil in Sierra Leone and the DRC, to poultry farming in Zambia.

Au Cambodge, les compagnies sucrières dépossèdent des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants de leurs terres. Demandons à Karel de Gucht, Commissaire européen au commerce, de faire cesser ce scandale !

New WRM video based on interviews with people from communities in Africa affected by the expansion of oil palm plantations.