How can it be that finance centers in New York or Stockholm exercise control over lands in Northeastern Brazil?

According to its latest investment report, the Jaguar Pension Plan placed $16.5m in an agriculture fund managed by Boston-based Folium Capital

OKOMU Oil Palm Company Plc has warned Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to desist from spreading spurious and libellous allegations that the company has been parading an RSPO certificate which it does not possess

The Swaziland Justice Forum has accused the Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation of being complicit in the illegal eviction of sugar cane farmers and their families from what should have been by now their freehold land.

Investors from the Middle East have been tempted by African agribusiness for years, and a report on Monday by real estate consultancy Knight Frank suggests demand is growing.

We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector.

MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda for large-scale agricultural development and another with Al Dahra Holding for collaboration on the implementation of the National Strategy for Future Food Security.

With a massive Chinese rice plantation project floundering, the Tsakane farmers of Xai-Xai offer a vivid demonstration that perhaps the best way to grow more food is to give poor food producers more land.

The Cerrado savanna is an area in Brazil the same size as Western Europe. It's one of the most biodiverse places in world that's being destroyed for large soybean production.

Environmental rules and tighter restrictions on foreign ownership are denting dairy farm prices which have fallen more than 18 per cent.

Serbian farmlands that were recently cultivated, used and improved by 80 farming families are now being leased to UAE-based companies.

In order to facilitate private sector investment in agriculture, the Government of Zimbabwe will expedite issuance of bankable 99 year leases to allow farmers access to funding from financial institutions.