New report: European and US development funds are bankrolling palm oil company Feronia Inc despite land and labour conflicts at its plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

While the ICC has no jurisdiction to prosecute companies, individual company executives can in principle be investigated in connection with corporate complicity in land-grabbing.

A complaint lodged earlier this year about alleged abuses by a palm oil company in Indonesian Papua has raised questions over the credibility of the industry’s largest certification scheme in investigating member violations.

Face au décalage entre la défense de Feronia et les témoignages remontant du terrain, les ONG demandent la mise en place d'une mission d'information indépendante internationale dans les zones concernées.

L’appétence pour l’appropriation de terres — concentration, accaparement, accumulation — n’est pas un phénomène nouveau : il est la marque de la richesse et du pouvoir. Monarques, princes, aristocrates, seigneurs, grands propriétaires, industriels ou investisseurs aujourd’hui, quelque soit l’époque, leur statut et le nom qu’on leur donne, se sont octroyés des droits sur des territoires où vit une population rurale dont les activités tournent autour de l’agriculture vivrière. par Agnès Stienne

Un informe documenta como una iniciativa del G8 está utilizando dinero dedicado a combatir la pobreza para facilitar el acceso a zonas africanas clave a grandes multinacionales.

Bain & Company analysis has identiied four approaches that public companies are taking to invest in agriculture.

Mozambique’s rural communities remain on high alert, even as they successfully repel many of the largest land grabs.

In a world fraught with major human rights violations, and significant constraints facing the ICC, what are the prospects of a prosecution for land grabbing or environmental destruction?

The Sudanese Government continues to grant new long-term leases over community lands to investors without consulting local populations or obtaining their consent, says the Sudan Democracy First Group

The Ethiopian government’s push to lease large swaths of land to foreign investors and private interests has fueled unbridled corruption and displaced thousands of people.

Milk NZ, the local unit of Chinese investor Shanghai PengXin Group, is facing new hurdles with its New Zealand investment plans after being knocked back by the government last year over its proposed $88 million purchase of Lochinver farm.

Joe Lewis, the owner of football team Tottenham Hotspur, is the ultimate owner of the AA Trust, which has just converted 59 of 160 Convertible Notes into fully paid ordinary shares in AACo.

La COS/M23 tire la sonnette d’alarme sur le cas de l’affectation de 1000 ha à Dioukoul à la Société SENEGINDIA SARL sans consultation des populations locales et en violation de la loi

Covering two percent of the world's agricultural land, more than 1,000 territorial transfer deals signed since 2000 have become a fact of life for governments, investors and campaigners, transforming the geopolitical landscape.