Chorng indigenous community, who live around Cardamom Mountain National Park in Koh Kong province, Cambodia, experienced difficulties obtaining forest products or practicing rotational farming near their village as they have been informed that those areas are in the REDD+ zone, although there was no clear boundary.

IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has acquired S.P.O. Zentrum, a Sicily-based producer of fruits and vegetables with 450 ha under management.

The company says, once again, that it will expand its current 300 hectares under cultivation to 20,000 hectares

Groups petition the World Bank, US and Netherlands to support an independent investigation into human rights abuses committed against dozens of vulnerable people in Kiryandongo District, western Uganda, by agribusiness company, Agilis Partners.

Longstanding grievances of workers at the Salala Rubber Coporation came to a head on 27 June 2024 when a violent protest broke out, leading to the destruction of housing and administration facilities. The plantation is now closed until further notice.

The market for the so-called Fiagros, investment funds focused on agricultural receivables such as interest, dividends and land-lease payments, is set to stall this year after a wave of farmer defaults sparked uncertainty.

The Luapula Council of Chiefs has joined other stakeholders in rejecting the proposed US$72 billion Vietnamese rice investment project spearheaded by VietZam Development Corporation Limited that is said to involve 6 million hectares of land.

Earthworm investigators told Mongabay they were shocked by some of their findings of sexual harassment and gender-based violence on Socfin's plantations. "If they don’t make progress on these issues, we would stop working with them, as that’s our mission as a foundation.”

Continental Farmers Group, owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, has started the first wave of harvesting winter crops on 89,500 hectares in Ukraine.

The president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has set a strategic objective to extend the cultivated area in the south to 500,000 hectares, including investments from Qatar for 117.,000 hectares and from Italy for 36,000 hectares, as well as national investments for 120,000 hectares.

On May 7, 2024, Lipton announced the sale of its Kenyan tea estates to LOLC Holdings PLC. The tea estates are on land that was violently seized from the Kipsigis and Talai clans by the British army in the early 20th century.

A new report has found that investors and agribusiness in Latin America are increasingly buying up small parcels of land with abundant water access, thus securing control over the vital resource.