During a field trip to the site on June 5, 2025, led by SYNAPARCAM, villagers expressed fear of not being able to feed their families or having a small place to build a house as all remaining lands are being occupied with palm trees.

U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military forces to suppress dissent, threatening more than 50,000 Indigenous people.

According to the government, this program, enabled by a presidential decree, makes 1,700 hectares — once agricultural plantations — available for concession via a blockchain platform.

A Riyadh private equity firm established by a Saudi royal is joining forces with Canadian asset manager Cordiant Group to set up two funds worth $5 billion for agricultural investments across the GCC and globally.

In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) has raised an alarm over the alleged illegal occupation of 6,000 hectares of farmland in Ipao-Ekiti by the Agbeyewa Group of Companies, accusing the Ekiti State Government of fraudulently reallocating land that the association legally acquired.

A civil society group closely monitoring developments at the 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation welcomed the call for a temporary suspension of its activities.

Swiss-based Harvest Group SA, through its subsidiary Harvest Agro Holding, has announced an investment of half a billion dollars to develop as much as 300,000 hectares of pastureland across rural Kazakhstan into productive agricultural land

A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.

Groups say the agropole project is not in line with food sovereignty and call for it to be halted, for the memorandum of understanding with Israeli LR Group to be cancelled and for the law on agricultural aggregation to be repealed.

African Food Security, a New York-based agribusiness firm, has launched a large-scale farming initiative in Somaliland and says it has commenced feasibility studies and soil assessments.