Worldwide farmland under management reversed upward trends in recent years, with assets falling 15.7% to $16.2 billion, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey.
The government of Sierra Leone has signed a $275M investment deal with the Turkish SALA Group, for the resumption of large-scale rice farm project, covering 54,000 ha in Torma Bum.
Residents of Yala swamp, in Kenya, have begun the process of registering the land to ward off cartels seeking to benefit from the process after the departure of Dominion Farms
Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.
The complaint was filed in March on behalf of more than 700 displaced Cambodian families by the U.S. organization IDI and the Cambodian organizations Equitable Cambodia and LICADHO
Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.
Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.
Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.
New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn.
A proposed land market model envisages that only Ukrainians and Ukrainian companies will have the right to buy and sell land, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
