About 100 farmers’ households have been exploiting the area for decades and do not intend to leave it.

Victims of land grabbing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda have come out to decry the deplorable conditions that they are subjected to by the land evictors at the hand of security officials.

FrieslandCampina WAMCO and Neon Agro have agreed to acquire 10,000 hectares of land each, while Irish Dairy are to develop 4,000 hectares for their local milk production project.

An estimated 30,000 people in Kiryandongo district, Uganda, are being violently evicted from their homes and farms to make way for the industrial farming projects of three foreign-owned companies — Agilis Partners, Kiryandongo Sugar and Great Season SMC.

The Covid-19 pandemic and a general trend towards ESG investing are pushing more institutional investors, particularly pension funds, to look more closely at farmland investments.

Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms to make way for foreign-owned plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.

Communities brutally evicted by the British to make way for tea plantations seek compensation for ‘colonial crimes’.

More than 100 farmers gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday, having walked about 1,800 km (1,118 miles) from the island of Sumatra to protest against forced evictions from long-running land conflict with a state-owned plantation company, PT Perkebunan Nusantara II (PTPN II).

Harvard says it is trying to divest from unsustainable ventures but is having trouble finding buyers for the farms, it continues to profit from the appreciating value of the land.

Elite Agro, a producer and distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will invest in Subang, West Java, Indonesia.

The Edo State Government of Nigeria has set out 100,000 hectares of land for oil palm cultivation by investors.

As demand for Brazilian soy soars, agribusinesses and farmland developers are seizing the opportunity to expand in the biodiverse Cerrado biome in western Bahia, Brazil.