The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rabobank announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos to anchor the $1 billion sustainable agriculture and forestry initiative with matching cornerstone investments of $40 million each.

Sime Darby has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc through completion of its sale to the Liberian company Mano Palm Oil Industries Ltd.

CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.

A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed company Equatorial Palm Oil violated local townspeople’s right to their land in Liberia and are pushing them further into poverty.

WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, with operations in all major growing regions including southern Africa, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the state of California.

This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms to agriculture in illegal settlements on Palestinian and Syrian lands and examines their role in the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.

Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.

The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.

Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy government to farm 60 000 ha in the Lower Mangoky region of southwest Madagascar, for the local market and for export

With the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by the South Sudan nationals is violently and forcefully evicting hundreds of native families off their land.

The document says that only individuals who are citizens of Ukraine, legal entities established by citizens of Ukraine, the state, and local communities can be players on the farmland market.