Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.

How did Brazil become a laboratory for agroinvestment? Through an alliance between big finance and agribusiness. Now, ordinary people are being pulled into financing land- and watergrabbers themselves.

An investigation into a large-scale tree plantation project by Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER and four Sierra Leone NGOs reveals that numerous farming families who own the land have apparently not agreed to the project in the manner prescribed by law.

Environmental rights defenders were arrested, and an environmental journalist was abducted after displaying three banners denouncing the mistreatment by the PHC company in Kinshasa.

Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.

Residents of Pader Sub-county are protesting the allocation of 2,611 acres to Panacea Agribusiness Ltd, saying that more than 3,000 farmers in the area will have nowhere to grow their crops.

The farmland in Portugal will be acquired from Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, one of the largest nut processing companies in Spain.

Nigeria's Edo State Government has signed an agreement with two major fossil fuel companies providing them with 6,000 hectares of land from the state's protected forest reserves for large-scale tree planting to produce carbon credits

Qantas Super plans to generate a higher proportion of returns from the agricultural sector after committing $200 million to the development of high-yielding horticultural crops on properties managed by farmland investor goFARM.

Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

The joint venture project between Qatar's Baladna and the Algeria's National Investment Fund will develop a vertically integrated dairy operation in Algeria, spanning 117,000 ha.

Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.