FAO expert says it would be wrong to conclude that investors’ interest in agriculture has vanished and developing countries and donors should do more to ensure responsible investment and confront domestic “land grabbers".

Les sols français sont-il réellement victimes d'accaparement?

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.

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.

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.

Consultez la synthèse de chacune des sessions thématiques qui ont eu lieu les 31 mars, 1er et 2 avril 2016 lors du Forum Mondial sur l'Accès à la Terre et aux ressources naturelles à Valencia (Espagne).

Quelques très insignifiants frémissements semblent signaler un changement de mentalité au sein de l’ogre SOCAPALM au Cameroun. Le loup serait-il devenu un agneau ?

China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week.

Some 100 farmers who have spent the past 11 days sleeping on land to guard it from bulldozers in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia are exhausted by empty promises from the government to solve their problem.

In India, of the almost 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of land acquired for SEZs in the last five years, only 362 hectares have been used for their intended purpose, according to SEZ Farmers' Protection Welfare Association despite farmers have been devastated by the loss of their land.

Les litiges fonciers sont récurrents au Sénégal et sont le plus souvent facteurs de violences et de cas de décès.