Zambia's government has courted foreign investors by offering land and large tax breaks as incentives, but this has led to displacement of local people. The lucky few have been paid peanuts as compensation.

Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty

The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway.

Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

As global agricultural resources shrink or shift, countries are crossing border to obtain new farmlands

Platform SIF and Collective TANY call on citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure farmers and local communities rights on their lands.

In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land

World Forum on access to Land and Natural Resources between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.

Donlinks, one of China's biggest vegetable oil producers, will partner with British Virgin lslands-registered Genius Link Capital, to make an offer for S. Kidman & Co, Australia's largest landholder.

The 25 farms of Van Diemen's Land Company in Tasmania are expected to be of interest to multiple trade investors, institutional investors, sovereign funds and also agricultural funds.

Juaboso Agro Processing Company, a joint Ghanaian/American business, has secured 6,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of plantain and the building of a factory to export chips to the United States.

This paper aims to study the situation of land grabbing and its impacts on small-scale farmers in 5 countries, namely Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and shows the consequences for families kicked off the land. Land Grabbing shows how “colonialism 2.0” works.

A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.

New figures highlight "the catastrophic failure of governments to respect the basic land rights of more than 1 billion people."

Australia’s rural farming sector is witnessing a spurt in Chinese investments, backed by high expectations of the upcoming free trade agreement with China.

The charges brought against the human rights defenders relate to a food security workshop that the they were due to attend in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2015.

Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.

Les litiges concernant les terres, dans les zones rurales ou urbaines sont-ils de plus en plus nombreux ? Quels sont les recours pour les citoyens qui s’estiment spoliés ?

La plateforme SIF et le Collectif TANY appellent les citoyens du monde à signer une pétition pour demander aux autorités malgaches d'adopter des lois qui sécurisent les droits des paysans et des communautés locales sur leurs terres.

Le Forum Mondial sur l’Accès à la Terre se tiendra à Valence en Espagne le 31 mars, 1 et 2 avril 2016.

La silence du groupe SOCFIN a mené à une nouvelle série de mobilisations dans les différents pays dès le mois d’Avril 2015, qui se sont achevées par des actions lors des assemblées générales du groupe Socfin puis Bolloré.

Cette étude documente les répercussions de l'accaparement des terres sur les moyens de subsistance et sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l'Ouest.

Mas de 700 organizaciones y personalidades han firmado el llamado a debatir acerca del accesso a la tierra y los recursos naturales para buscar soluciones eficaces.

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