Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land

The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) signed a memorandum of understanding on strengthening a partnership to help the Chinese agriculture industry go global in Beijing on Tuesday. China has invested a total of US$7.18 billion in overseas agricultural projects.

In its second swoop on prime northern NSW cattle country this year, Chinese-owned pastoral business, Rifa Salutary, has snapped up another two aggregations for an estimated $55 million.

China has expressed its interest in bringing its private firms to invest in agriculture in areas in the border region of Kalimantan, Indonesia, a top official said on Monday.

Is there such a thing as "responsible large-scale investment in land and agriculture"? asks Prof Marjorie Mbilinyi.

Laos’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has estimated that government officials have given more than one million hectares of the country’s total land area of 23.7 million hectares as concessions to foreign investors

A new paper from the International Criminal Court laying out a shift in focus to crimes linked to environmental destruction and the unlawful dispossession of land has rekindled the debate over whether the court will launch an investigation into a case highlighting land-grabbing in Cambodia.

In the Berry, the heart of French cereal farming in the center of the country, Chinese buyers have been purchasing farmland in order to assure food supplies for their growing population.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending five million euro to Bulgaria's Elana Agrocredit, a company offering long-term financial lease contracts to farmers seeking to acquire agricultural land.

In change of focus, Hague court will prosecute government and individuals for environmental crimes such as landgrabs

The process of selling off the largest flower farm in Naivasha, Karuturi, has kicked off, with a new liquidator moving in.

Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry including double land sales, corporate land grabbing, local disputes over territory, and equal gender access to land.

Frontline communities and social movements around the world explain why we need to keep our hands on the land for food sovereignty and climate justice!

Regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) joins Filipino peasant groups in condemning the recent killing of four farmers in a military reservation that is the subject of a land conflict.

US giant TIAA's Westchester has purchased a major part of northern NSW cropping farm Milton Downs from Australia's biggest wheat grower Greentree Farming for a figure some estimate to be in the vicinity of $50 million.

Senegalese agro-pastoralists are striking wins against Senhuile SA, a foreign-owned agribusiness company established in Ndiaël, Saint-Louis Region of Senegal.

Milltrust has a 10 year, billion dollar program to establish farms in the southern hemisphere to produce rice, wheat, corn and barley, as well as new cash crops that will provide feedstock for animals.

Last June, Dutch animal feed company De Heus started the construction of a demonstration farm for 400 sows and 800 fattening pigs in Vietnam.

The Peoples Land Organisation seeks the local people’s occupation of all idle tea estates land, as well as reparations for the years since 1914 that estates owners occupied the lands and engaged in bonded labour practices. The organisation has also been demanding from the estates owners a wage rate of £6.13 per hour (about K5 000) per individual for those who were involved in Thangata (bonded labour) between 1914 and 1963.

Last month people in Yala Swamp in Kenya won a court decision against Dominion Farms, a company from the United States, which has been grabbing their land since 2003.

A Korean palm oil company has been dropped by buyers after footage emerged that allegedly shows the illegal burning of vast tracts of tropical forest on lands it holds concessions for in Indonesia.

A Dutch-run flower farm in northern Ethiopia was among a series of foreign-owned plantations attacked by anti-government protesters as unrest in the country spreads.

A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., has concluded plans to set up a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State, Nigeria.

AgDevCo’s investment of $3.9m will be used to establish irrigation (250ha) and power.

ACF, CCFD et Oxfam France appellent le gouvernement français à demander l’arrêt de l’initiative afin de mener une évaluation publique de ses impacts dans les 10 pays africains visés pour réparer les dommages causés.

Il sera permis aux investisseurs étrangers d’investir et de posséder des biens immobiliers tout en insistant sur la non-appropriation étrangère des terres agricoles, même en cas de liquidation de société.

« C'est une nouvelle forme de colonisation », résume José Bové dans sa préface à l'ouvrage de Cécile Cazenave qui fait le tour du monde de l'accaparement des terres.

La procureure de la Cour pénale internationale a averti jeudi les hommes d'affaires et les politiciens qu'elle allait désormais mettre l'accent sur les accaparements de terres en tant que possibles crimes contre l'humanité.

Pour Carlos Etakore, président des indiens Ayoreo, « les étrangers ont déjà détruit leurs propres terre. Maintenant ils détruisent la nôtre. »

La Roumanie est confrontée à une véritable ruée sur ses terres de la part d’acheteurs étrangers. Explications.

Le gouvernement australien vient de rendre public son registre des exploitations agricoles. Surprise : ce ne sont pas des groupes chinois qui possèdent le plus de terres, mais des investisseurs britanniques et américains.

Greenpeace International et Oakland Institute épinglent le département d'Etat américain dans une affaire d’accaparement de 73 000 ha de terres par la société américaine Herakles Farms au Cameroun

A travers cette émission , Madame Yacine Fall dénonce fortement l'accaparement des terres en montrant qu'aucun pays ne peut se développer en se basant sur des entreprises étrangères.

A l'origine de la colère du peuple Oromo, un accaparement de leurs terres par l'état qui ensuite les revend à des multinationales

Un collectif d'organisations de la société civile demande aux autorités nigériennes d'arrêter le processus en raison du tort qu'il causerait aux petits agriculteurs.

Au Nigéria, le chinois Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd a annoncé son intention d’installer une ferme de production de maïs dans l’Etat de Cross River.

ProSAVANA continue à favoriser les investissements dans le Corridor de Nacala sans aborder le problème de l’accaparement des terres.

Le grand projet de la Commission de l’Océan Indien de faire de Madagascar le grenier de la Région sera quasi effectif.

El jueves pasado, 1.200 agentes fueron desplegados para cumplir con la orden judicial de desalojo en la colonia ocupada por más de 200 familias campesinas.

El futuro de la polémica Ley Zidres tendrá este jueves un día clave en la Corte Constitucional que estudia dos demandas que buscan revocar la norma por estimar que se afectarán a campesinos.

El sacerdote cree que la intención es expulsar definitivamente a los campesinos para que los brasileños se apropien de las tierras.

La diputada remarcó que el decreto del gobierno nacional “flexibiliza las condiciones de compra por parte de extranjeros”.

Este encontro constitui um espaço de troca de saberes comunitários e de conhecimentos para que as comunidades se engajem e participem democraticamente na defesa dos seus direitos.