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Indigenous West Papuans claim Indonesian government is 'land grabbing'
- RNZ
- 16 May 2025
West Papuans in Merauke claim the Indonesian government is stealing land to build its global "food barn" and feed its population of 280 million.
Govt to acquire 200,000 hectares for cocoa revival – Ato Forson
- CNR
- 16 May 2025
Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says the government will acquire vast tracts of land to establish large-scale plantation farms and restore annual production to one million metric tonnes.
New Zealand: More than 95,000 hectares of farms sold to overseas buyers for forestry conversion
- Stuff
- 16 May 2025
"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”
Microsoft to purchase 18m tons of carbon credits from Rubicon Carbon
- DCD
- 16 May 2025
The agreement, one of the largest single buyer agreements to date, will see Microsoft receive carbon credits from a pipeline of individual Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects worldwide
Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitions
- Climate Home News
- 15 May 2025
Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.
Santander backed major South American deforester Cresud despite net zero pledge
- Global Witness
- 15 May 2025
Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.
A troubled agribusiness returns: African Food Security’s quiet expansion into Somaliland raises old alarms
- Geopolitics Africa TV
- 10 May 2025
Beneath the promises of food security and economic growth lie allegations of land grabbing, human rights violations, environmental damage, and financial mismanagement—particularly linked to the company’s operations in West and Central Africa.
Socfin's response on Mbonjo case
- BHRRC
- 07 May 2025
Company's response to an inquiry from Business and Human Rights Research Centre
Ondo Governor Aiyedatiwa responds to cocoa farmers’ protest, denies land grabbing allegations
- Sahara Reporters
- 07 May 2025
The government described the reports of protests by some cocoa farmers over farm settlements in the state as "misleading" and "emotionally distorted."
In brief: A pension’s journey from farmland to natural capital
- New Private Markets
- 07 May 2025
How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.
Africa’s richest man to more than double Ghana’s publicly irrigated farmland with new sugar project
- Forbes
- 06 May 2025
The Dangote Sugar Refinery, located in Kwame-Danso in Ghana’s Bono Region, will reportedly bring 25,000 hectares of farmland under irrigation to support industrial-scale sugarcane cultivation.
Landless peasants rally against evictions, ‘corporate land grabs’
- Dawn
- 06 May 2025
Participants strongly rejected the ongoing evictions of small farmers in the name of the Green Pakistan Initiative, military-backed agribusiness ventures, and the operations of companies such as Fongrow under the facilitation of the Special Investment Facilitation Council.