A step forward to resolve a long-standing land conflict with PHC, a subsidiary of Feronia Inc

A Mongabay Latam series on the oil palm industry in several Latin American countries has revealed that the advance of oil palm monocultures in Latin America since 2000 has resulted in illegalities, deforestation, environmental pressures, and conflicts with local communities.

India's Union Minister for Commerce & Industry says Saudi Arabia and UAE will be using India as a base for their food security.

Criminalization is now the strategy being used by the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sandabi Indah Lestari, which supplies Wilmar International, to grab lands.

A 1040-hectare oil palm farm has been given by Amokwe and Okai villages of Bende, Abia State, Nigeria to Dufil Prima Foods Plc, a company whose owners include Kellog's and PT Indofood, to enable it source its raw materials.

FarmCompany, a farmland investment company owned by investors from England, Hong Kong and the Netherlands, adds a 545 ha dairy farm to its portfolio of farms covering 1,605 ha across Denmark.

The loan to the Canadian company operating oil palm plantations in the DR Congo is provided by provided by the CDC Group plc, the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution and KN Agri LLC.

One of Australia’s largest pastoral empires has sold three properties in its portfolio spanning more than 740,00ha to a Vietnamese investment group in a deal understood to be worth $135 million.

Foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land rose more than two million hectares in the past year, with investors from the island nation of the Bahamas buying up 2,201,000 hectares.

US-headquartered Cargill has completed the acquisition of Polish food and fresh chicken firm Konspol, adding a feed mill, broiler farms, and processing plants to its Global Poultry network.

In the poor, hot region of Guatemala that was home to a seven-year-old migrant girl before she died in U.S. border custody last month, palm oil cultivation is taking over from subsistence farming, adding to pressure on people to leave.

Green Advocates and Inclusive Development International have developed new advocacy tools that would be used by local communities to hold oil palm growers accountable for environmental and human rights violations committed in Liberia.