ESCR-Net has written to President Bio about the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and Users Association in connection with industrial scale palm oil operations by Société Financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin Group).

Today, certain legal arrangements are facilitating unsustainable resource extraction and shifting resource control in favour of commercial interests.

The Rwanda Development Board signs agreement with Israeli firm Netafim to develop irrigation for 5,600 ha agricultural project in Eastern Province.

Fruit processor Del Monte will have its land in Murang’a and Kiambu counties surveyed in in order to address the historical injustices committed against the area residents.

US fruit processor Del Monte will have its 8,900 ha of farmland surveyed in order to address historical injustices committed against the area residents.

“We need to work with affected communities to negotiate mutually beneficial land deals that genuinely offer win wins for communities, individual farmers and investors," says representative of UK’s Department for International Development.

A Saudi delegation met with South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture and "expressed a desire to lease land in South Africa to produce a wide range of agricultural commodities provided they can sign a lease of 99 years or more.”

Under a land reformation act, millions of farmers across Myanmar could be forced from land they have tilled for generations. In an open letter, a national grassroots coalition, called for the government to "abolish" the law and "enact a federal law that safeguards people's integrity, their lives and livelihoods."

The newly built Blue Plains Farm, the 4th constructed for the company Agrited, will be located near to Fiditi town, Oyo State on 112 ha of bushland.

The Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company has emerged as the likely buyer of Australia’s biggest single parcel of broadacre farming land, based in the Wheatbelt.

This article examines the emergence of this social movement and explains why anti-land grabs campaigns were successful in halting some projects, but not successful in others.

Norway’s US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has pulled out of more than 33 palm oil companies over deforestation risks over the last seven years