International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil in Honduras on 6th-8th August
Al Dahra Agriculture, a private-sector partner of the UAE Government in securing key food staples, is targeting investments in coffee and sugar plantations in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, said the company's vice chairman.
As well as plans to build silos to store key commodities, the Government's approach includes partnering private sector players such as Al Dahra Agriculture to secure overseas land.
Slideshow about controversies around Karuturi's flower farm operations in Ethiopia
Ukraine’s State Food and Grain Corporation and China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have signed a memorandum on cooperation in supporting priority projects in agriculture. Chinese investment in Ukraine’s agricultural sector will reach more than $2.6 billion.
Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma, by Forest Peoples Programme
Your help is needed now for communities across Papua New Guinea who are still waiting for justice in one of our planets largest illegal land grabs.
The Rockefeller Foundation says the 10,000 ha rice farm and outgrower scheme that Olam is constructing in Nigeria is a win-win land project.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has taken Sierra Leone farmland investor Capital Alternatives to the High Court for “promoting and/or operating collective investment schemes (CISs) in the UK illegally and without our authorisation”.
Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.
More than 30 civil society organisations and peasant groups have decided to unite their forces in a national campaign against the privatisation of land, with the Prosavana project at the top of their list.
Trading giant Louis Dreyfus plans to invest in assets ranging from orange groves to sugar refiners, it said in the first glimpse of its strategy following the departure of its long-serving CEO in June.
