Government finally lifts suspension of NGO working with land grab affected communities, but over 300,000 people were evicted and couldn’t access specialized and prompt legal assistance during the period of suspension.

Many oil palm plantations’ concessions in West and Central Africa were built on lands stolen from communities during colonial occupations. This is the case in the DRC, where food company Unilever began its palm oil empire. Today, these plantations are still sites of ongoing poverty and violence.

New research studied 160 large-scale land acquisitions made between 2005 and 2015 across Europe, South America, Africa and Asia looking at how much of this land acquisition would cause competition and water grabbing.

Many rural communities affected by agricultural concessions in Liberia have seen their ancestral gravesites leveled in some of the worst land-grabs in human history.

This certification is next in line of a number of highly controversial certifications of the SOCFIN group in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast.

Did Indonesia just save a forest the size of Belgium? Or open the floodgates for its destruction? One giant, controversial palm plantation development, whose permits were among those cancelled, will be a crucial test.

A Ugandan court has finally fixed different hearing dates for cases filed by victim communities in Kiryandongo who were forced off their land by multinational agribusiness companies.

A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.

A joint venture between Australia's Warakirri Asset Management and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired a grain growing aggregation in Riverina, Australia for more than $55 million

Researchers say that cross-border campaigning and resistance by community land rights organizations is a major reason why the industry has faltered in Africa.

Managing Director of Okomu Oil Palm Company, Edo State, Dr. Graham Hefer, lamented gunmen’s attacks on the company’s plantation and challenged host communities to volunteer information.

Indonesia’s food estate program, billed as improving domestic food availability, has had the opposite effect on farmers recruited into the scheme, a new study shows.