L’augmentation croissante des exportations agricoles du Brésil suscite des craintes d’une nouvelle avancée de la frontière agricole brésilienne, au détriment de la forêt amazonienne, « poumon de la planète », et d’autres écosystèmes menacés.

US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US owned-company farming maize and oilseed on 13,500 acres in Uganda.

Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia

Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.

A l’occasion de la célébration de leur journée internationale, Greenpeace Afrique se joint aux peuples autochtones du Cameroun pour demander le respect des droits à leurs forêts, face aux entreprises responsables d’accaparement des terres.

A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or destroyed last month, fuelling concerns that under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners and farmers are involved in a free-for-all land grab.

Joël Imbangola, membre de l'organisation congolaise de défense de l'environnement et des droits de l'homme RIAO-RDC, a été tué au nord-ouest de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

The agricultural company Al Ravafed Serbia, a majority-owned company of the same name from the United Arab Emirates, operated 3,500 ha in Karadjordjevo in 2018 with a loss of more than two million euros

COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres [24 million ha] of soybean production in Brazil.

Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by an American called Philip Investor, and Sole Agro Business Company, also owned by Indians, have been named in the evictions of thousands of people in the western districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi in Uganda.

Le ministre de l’Agriculture s’engage à lutter contre la concentration excessive du foncier agricole entre les mains de sociétés.

Au Maroc, il est interdit de vendre du foncier en milieu rural aux étrangers et aux sociétés dont le capital est détenu par des étrangers. Sauf qu’ils peuvent toujours bénéficier d’une dérogation leur permettant d’acheter un terrain à condition d’y réaliser un projet d’envergure.

Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years.

Macquarie Bank has come under fire for land clearing operations undertaken by Viridis Ag, a farming enterprise owned by the banking group’s agricultural investment management business, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset.

After a decade of hardship, indigenous villagers in Cambodia scored a significant victory after they put pressure on the World Bank Group over its financial ties to a land-grabbing company, Vietnam agribusiness giant HAGL.