The China-backed sugar plantation is clearing land and forest, jeopardizing the survival of the indigenous Kuoy in Cambodia.

Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.

Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned.

Greenpeace accuse la banque de financer, entre autres, Goodhope Asia Holding Ltd contre laquelle des ONG et des communautés locales ont porté plainte auprès de la RSPO pour "accaparement de terres" en Papouasie.

Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the government of Japan have signed a loan agreement worth almost ¥5-billion to fund a five-year project that aims to jumpstart agribusiness investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Le Niger et le Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite viennent de conclure plusieurs accords de coopération, remettant à l’ordre du jour le très controversé projet d’achat de terres arables au Niger qu’envisagent des investisseurs saoudiens.

Women in Senegal are fighting back against land grabbing, from young coders designing a mobile app to help women buy land to civil society groups rallying female villagers to stand up to multinationals

La "situation s'aggrave en raison des combats dans certaines régions et de l'accaparement des terres", qui prive les paysans de leur moyen de subsistance, explique Moon Nay Li, secrétaire de la Kwat.

The stage for an acquisition of Crookes could already be set thanks to the involvement of African agriculture-focused UK private equity firm SilverStreet Capital as the key shareholder through its Silverlands (SA) Plantations investment vehicle.

Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.

Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.

Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.

While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.

Soutenu par un cabinet d’avocat français, Guillaume Eboh Dipanda, jeune riverain des plantations de la Société Camerounaise des Palmeraies (Socapalm), vient de trainer Vincent Bolloré devant les tribunaux de Paris.

Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.