Selected Articles

How Kenya is using satellite data to settle land rights - Borgen Project 30.11.25 499933
Facing the Bulldozers: Iban Indigenous Resistance to the Timber Industry in Sarawak, Malaysia - HRW 04.05.25 470440
15 Years of Land Defense and Community Building in Xayakalan - NACLA 12.08.24 427938
A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it - Open Democracy 09.05.24 412352
5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It - CD 11.04.24 408174
‘A legend for our people’: Inside an Indigenous activist’s death in Brazil - Al Jazeera 29.02.24 400152
Kenya's indigenous communities demand action on land rights - New Int 08.02.24 397294
Indigenous community in Ecuador wins legal fight to reclaim ancestral land after more than 80 years - CNN 29.11.23 386753
Ecuador’s Siekopai Nation Wins Historic Land Back Victory In The Amazon Rainforest - Amazon Frontlines 28.11.23 386755
‘A sense of home’: Native American land rights grow in industrial midwest - Guardian 23.11.23 386754
Indigenous Territories Are Key to Stopping Droughts in the Amazon - Amazon Frontlines 03.11.23 386756
Brazil’s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights - Canary 28.09.23 375839
Will Brazil’s Supreme Court rule against Indigenous land rights this week? - Mongabay 28.08.23 370099
‘Everywhere is broken’: how land grabs in Cambodia are demolishing lives - Guardian 11.04.23 340353
Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights - Mongabay 10.04.23 340239
The Dartmoor ruling is the wake-up call we all needed - Canary 23.01.23 326838
Documentary: Silver Dollar Road - IMDb, 2023 373346
The land is ours - New Int 24.10.22 319818
5 organisations fighting for global land rights - Borgen Project 21.10.22 312638
No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights - Global Issues 16.05.22 287276
Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation - Mongabay 24.03.22 279819
Grabbed - Global Issues 22.10.21 260584
Thailand: Land rights activist gunned down - HRW 08.05.21 243676
The Karipuna People are taking the Brazilian state to court. Here’s why: - Greenpeace 05.05.21 243685
New report details indigenous struggle for land rights - UN News 12.03.21 238271
Punjab farmers caught between two fences at India-Pakistan border - Al Jazeera 10.03.21 237811
Kazakh president orders ban on foreign ownership of farmland - Al Jazeera 25.02.21 236696
Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal - iied 18.12.20 229339
What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania - IIED 14.12.20 228233
Alleged gov’t-linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains - Mongabay 01.12.20 226442
The ancient band of shepherds taking on a NATO land grab in Montenegro - Open Democracy 13.11.20 229852
Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights - Mongabay 02.10.20 218464
Zimbabwe to return land seized from foreign farmers - BBC 01.09.20 215217
Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law - Mongabay 14.05.20 207661
Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land - Mongabay 05.05.20 206770
Nicaragua failing to protect indigenous groups from land grabs - Mongabay 04.05.20 206773
New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe - Mongabay 29.04.20 206223
Colombia's indigenous land defenders - Al Jazeera 08.04.20 204120
Land rights and investments - why business standards are not enough - IIED 16.03.20 203577
Successful social mobilisation for land rights in Nepal - IIED 28.02.20 203578
Global organisations raise the alarm for environmental defenders at the Skoll World Forum - Global Witness 12.04.18 156155
We must honour lost land defenders by fighting the system which killed them - Guardian 02.03.18 156159
Environmental defenders increasingly targeted, data shows - Mongabay 13.02.18 156160
New data reveals 197 land and environmental defenders murdered in 2017 - Global Witness 02.02.18 156164
Nearly Four Eco-Defenders Killed Per Week in 2017 Amid 'Ruthless Scramble' for Resources - Common Dreams 02.02.18 156165
The new colonialism: 'developing' superpowers join the global land grab – The Ecologist 31.01.17 156169
Nicaragua Canal - Both Ends, NL 156170
Report: Unearthed: Land, Power and Inequality in Latin America – Oxfam 11/16 .pdf 156174
Latin America Land Inequality Worse Now Than Decades Ago – TeleSur 30.11.16 156175
Protecting Indigenous Land Rights Makes Good Economic Sense - WRI 10/16 156179
Police and hired assassins are killing land rights defenders. Let's end this violence - Guardian 10/16 156180
ICC will investigate environmental destruction as well as war crimes – Open Democracy 10/16 156184
'Gold with yield': A primer on land-grabbing - Rabble 09/16 156185
Murder and eviction: the global land rush enters new more violent phase - Oxfam 09/16 156189
I will never give up my land - Frontline Defenders 08/16 156190
Indigenous Land Rights: How Far Have We Come and How Far Do We Have to Go? - WRI 08/16 156194
The Global Farm Land Grab In 2016: How Big, How Bad? - CounterCurrents 07/16 156195
Strengthening Indigenous Land Rights: 3 Challenges to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” - WRI 05/16 156199
4 Big Reasons Why Land Rights Matter - WRI 05/16 156200
The global land rights struggle is intensifying - Guardian 04/16 156204
Global Guidelines on Land Tenure Making Headway in Latin America - IPS 04/16 156205
The Great Land Rush: Investors face conflict in quest for farms - FT 03/16 156209
Beyond advocacy: What it takes to strengthen women's land rights - Devex 12/15 156210
New site maps indigenous land claims, bringing security to communities worldwide - Occupy 11/15 156214
The Myth of the African Land Grab - Foreign Policy 10/15 156215
Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation and land grabs - Guardian 04/15 156219
3 Ways to Tackle the Global Problem of Insecure Land Rights - WRI 03/15 156220
Where’s the evidence that land grabs are good for economic progress? - Guardian 11/14 156224
The global land grab as modern day corporate colonialism - The Broker 07/14 156225
How do you stop history repeating itself? - Emergn 156229
Ethical land-grabbing could feed 100 million people - New Scientist 06/14 156230
Land Grabbing in Africa, the new colonialism - Land Portal 156234
Corporate stranglehold of farmland a risk to world food security, study says - Guardian 28.05.14 156235
Video: Are land grabs an opportunity for Africa? - Al Jazeera 11/13 156239
European banks and pension funds fuel land grabs in Uganda - FoE 05/13 156240
Land-grabs in Vietnam: Losing the plot - Economist 03/13 156244
Land-grabbing firms beware: cost of ignoring people's rights is rising - Guardian 02/13 156245
New Reports: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses - Rights & Resources 02/13 156249
Food, Fuel, and the Global Land Grab - WSF 01/13 156250
Is your retirement fund a land-grabber? - IATP 05/12 156254
Tanzania takes major step towards curbing land 'grabs' - Guardian 12/12 156255
UN: 'Land Grab' Deals Hurt Local Farmers - VoA 12/12 156259
Is Your Pension Fund Taking Land Away From African Farmers? - Mother Jones 12/12 156260
Briefing: Pension funds and the financing of land grabs - FoE 09/12 156264
Iowa Firm Accused of Displacing Tanzanians for Profit - IPS 7/12 156265
The Finance of Land Grabs: Peasants, Herders, Fishers Dispossessed by Corporate Investors - Centre for Research on Globalization 06/12 156269
UN adopts historic 'land grab' guidelines - BBC 5/12 156274
Massive Theft of Developing World’s Farmland - IPS 04/12 156275
New international land deals database reveals rush to buy up Africa - Guardian 04/12 156279
Culture of secrecy around global land deals must be lifted to protect people and environment - Global Witness 04/12 156280
Analysis: Land grab or development opportunity? - BBC 02/12 156284
GRAIN releases data set with over 400 global land grabs - 2/12 156285
Rush for land a wake-up call for poorer countries, report says - Guardian 12/11 156289
African Land Grabbing: Whose Interests Are Served? - Brookings 06/12 156290
Meet The Millionaires And Billionaires Suddenly Buying Tons Of Land In Africa - Business Insider 06/11 156294
Pension funds: key players in the global farmland grab - GRAIN 06/11 156295
Hedge funds 'grabbing land' in Africa - BBC 06/11 156299
It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it 'responsible'! - GRAIN 04/11 156300
The Great Asian Land Grab: How a World Bank program helped displace tens of thousands of urban poor - Foreign Policy 03/11 156304
African Farmers Displaced as Investors Move In - NYT 12/10 156305