By: Maria Luisa Mendonça 

Date: June 19th 2016

Source: TeleSUR English

Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.

By: Deirdre Fulton

Date: June 14th 2016

Source: Common Dreams

While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'

Big Ag's global land grab is huge, growing, and "extending its reach to new frontiers," according to a new report from the international non-profit GRAIN.

By: Matthew Ponsford

Date: May 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The lack of tenure over ancestral lands lies at the root of violent clashes on land leased to foreign palm oil producers in Liberia, a leading researcher said.

By: Apoorva Joshi

Date: May 5th 2016

Source: Mongabay.com

Meanwhile, dozens of NGOs urge removal of its parent company, United Cacao, from the London Stock Exchange amid legality issues.

• Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru. It has been developing a palm oil plantation over the last several years.

By: Mike Gaworecki

Date: May 4th 2016

Source: Mongabay

An international delegation of leaders from indigenous and forest communities in Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, and Peru are in London today to call for action on human rights violations and land grabbing linked to the global trade in palm oil.

By: Toby Stirling Hill

Date: May 3rd 2016

Source: The Guardian

 

As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities. For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody

Date: April 28th 2016

Source: Survival International

Last month Yanomami representatives in Venezuela handed in a demand to the state government for the recognition of their territory.

By: Edward Loure and Fred Nelson

Date: April 27th 2016

Source: The Guardian

Customary land users care for roughly 50% of the earth’s land, but only about 10% is officially recognised as belonging to these communities

By: Lizabeth Paulat

Date: April 27th 2016

Source: Voice of America News

KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda has just finalized a deal to build a pipeline to Tanzania’s Tanga port, a deal that brings the country a step closer to exploiting its vast oil reserves. But gaps in land governance law could stand in the way.

By: Forest Peoples Programme (Press Release)

Date: April 26th 2016

Source: Forest Peoples Programme

By Mphatso Nkhoma
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Nyasa Times

Local business traders in the capital city Lilongwe has grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga which is to be shared among them.

According to the 'land grab 'group spokesperson, Fredrick Malata, they are going to share the land to develop it and build their shops

Malata said they decided to grab the land because it has been staying idle for over 12 years.

By: Sarah McColl

Date: April 4th 2016

Source: Takepart.com

Female growers in Ghana may have a more difficult time joining certified co-ops than their male counterparts.