How secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture spell disaster for the Congo Basin’s rainforests.

Billionaire French industrialist Vincent Bollore, who is a major shareholder in the plantation company SOCFIN, is being questioned in Paris over allegations that his conglomerate used corrupt connections in Africa to win port contracts.

The Harvard Management Company, which handles Harvard University's $37 billion endowment, has recently been linked to an agribusiness that may have been involved in deforestation and fraudulent land titles.

Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.

Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.

“The goal for the palm oil industry is to have not less than 200,000 hectares of organised oil palm plantation by the end of my administration," Edo State Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki said.

A mass board resignation at the Chinese firm that bought Australia’s largest dairy farm has fuelled concerns it may not fulfil its promises of local investment and environmental protection.

The birds are said to have migrated from Dominion Farms in the neighbouring Siaya County after the proprietor shifted from rice to sugarcane farming.

The board of Oromia Investment Commission has approved 167 investment projects worth 5.37 billion Br. Over 81pc of them are in agriculture and agro-processing sectors.

The prosecutor’s office in the state of Bahia said it’s reviewing allegations that a company linked to Harvard’s endowment isn’t the rightful owner of land in the region, and it’s determining whether to sue to reclaim the titles.

Karuturi Agro Products PLC says it is about to recommence the troubled commercial farms it was forced to abandon in Ethiopia, last year, with a new 25,000 hectare lease.

Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.