Sima Mattia's release was sought through the collective efforts of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations who had chipped in with the whopping sum of Le30 million to meet his fine imposed by the presiding Judge.

A large coalition of civil society organisations, NGOs and food campaigners have been working together closely across Europe to call on the European parliament to withdraw the EU’s support from the G7's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

The testimony says former chief executive of Petrobras, Phillipe Reichstul helped direct funds from Petrobras operations into the ethanol start-up group Brenco, which was created in 2006 and had investors that included Vinod Khosla, Steve Case and Tarpon Investments.

China Xinjiang Bingtuan Construction & Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd., which is one of the biggest companies in China, has plans to implement a joint investment project in the agricultural sector of Gomel Oblast

This briefing note provides an overview of practical solutions for governments confronting “land grievances"

A year ago today, Ethiopian security forces arrested Pastor Omot Agwa and six colleagues at Addis Ababa’s Bole Airport on their way to a food security workshop and took them to the notorious Maekelawi police station, where torture is routine.

One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail on the spurious charge of “terrorism”.

World Bank organizes costly conferences on land governance while overlooking the forced relocation of farmers and indigenous people resulting from its policies and programs.

The Thai government's much vaunted Special Economic Zones are under scrutiny amid reports of land grabs by foreign firms dodging the law on foreign acquisitions by having Thais act as nominees.

While most of the big corporate money has been falling over itself to buy into Australia's largest landowner, S. Kidman & Co, Rifa has quietly bought a total of seven properties in the last few months.

Financial investors own tracts that grow maize and soya beans in Illinois and Uruguay, almonds and cattle in Australia, and sugar beets and wheat in Poland. Some are venturing into countries with potentially volatile politics, such as Ethiopia and Ukraine.

The Qatar backed agricultural land and food producing company Hassad has defended its financial record in Australia following a report which showed its property company had never made a profit.

The four farms in the ‘macadamia capital of Australia’ cover 545 ha across four adjoining farms with 109,000 mature trees and were put up for sale in 2013 by one of the largest institutional managers of agricultural real estate in the US, Hancock Farm Company.

“I find it peculiar that a nation that is the venue for so much flow of funds from overseas to invest in our agricultural assets is not the same venue for Australian super funds to invest in,” ag minister Barnaby Joyce says.

Loro Horta reports on recent Chinese overseas investment in agriculture in the Lusophone world

Joseph Rahall interviews Hon. Shiaka Sama, who was released from prison on 24 February 2016 while 5 other activists are still behind bars

"We believe this was a tactic to get us into prison so that we cannot raise our voice on the unacceptable land deals in Malen Chiefdom."

The World Bank's $70 million in new financing will be used to link smallholder farmers to agribusinesses in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).

Hassad Australia, the $469 million agricultural land company owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has delivered a $3.46 million loss and is yet to make a profit since beginning in Australia in 2010.

While we welcome the Financial Times' mention of our report on TIAA’s investments in Brazil, we are disappointed that the article quotes from an email by TIAA dismissing the allegations in our report as “inaccurate and without merit” without providing grounds for such claims.

The agribusiness cluster of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) is targeting a total of 100,000 hectares for expansion of hybrid rice production area in the sub-economic region.

We, organisations of civil society and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in ProSavana.

China's New Hope is accelerate overseas acquisitions in a bid to become a top supplier of meat and is raising $450 million through Hosen Capital, which counts Temasek and Mitsui as founding investors.

The Global convergence of struggles for land and water calls on President Koroma to end the criminalisation of MALOA activists resisting Socfin in Sierra Leone.

Royal FrieslandCampina NV, a Dutch dairy company, is seeking to buy a 51 percent stake in Engro Foods Ltd. of Pakistan, the country's second-biggest listed dairy firm and owner of one of the country's largest dairy farms.

The Donor Platform commissioned 4 studies to guide donors in prioritising activities and investments in land governance.

Southern Harvest Company, a subsidiary of the American investment fund Anholt Services, has pruchased 2,700 hectares of farming land in Romania following two separate transactions

United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.

Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India alongside that of Lakshmi Mittal, bought two farms with a total of 2,500 hectares of land in Teleorman.

Quelque 400 délégués des pays de la CEDEAO participent à cette caravane qui traduit "la cohésion des populations des états de la CEDEAO sur ces problèmes qui préoccupent".

Le litige foncier du Wassadou a été largement évoqué lors d'un forum sur l'accaparement des terres, lundi, au centre culturel de Tambacounda (est), où a été reçue la caravane de la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l'eau en Afrique de l'Ouest.

Aujourd’hui, alors qu’un comité parlementaire européen révise le programme de développement appelé Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (NASAN), des militants venus de différents pays d’Europe mettent en scène l’affrontement entre les grandes multinationales et les petits agriculteurs.

La Caravane pour l'eau, la terre et les semences est partie au début du mois du Burkina Faso, elle va jusqu'au Sénégal et elle fait halte en ce moment dans la capitale malienne

Accaparement de terres, mise en péril de zones naturelles remarquées ou privatisation de patrimoines publics ? La fronde continue de monter contre le projet de vente au Qatar du domaine d’État de Thiverval-Grignon en France.

Les Chinois ne se contentent plus d'acheter les produits alimentaires australiens dont ils raffolent : des investisseurs chinois acquièrent des fermes, dont les plus grandes et les plus anciennes de l'île continent.

Evalué à plus de 100 milliards de francs CFA, ce partenariat est destiné au financement de plusieurs projets agricoles, comme l’hévéaculture et la culture du palmier à huile et autres projets industriels.

La Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l'eau demande au Président de Sierra Leone de mettre fin à la criminalisation des militants de MALOA qui résistent l'accaparement de leurs terres par la Socfin.

La medida aprobada este jueves con 92 votos a favor, es parte de la propuesta del presidente Rafael Correa sobre el proyecto de la Ley Orgánica de Tierras Rurales y Territorios Ancestrales.