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.

The five villages signed formal agreements with Soils for the Future (Tanzania) Ltd to execute the project on 71,656.30 hectares, which is the total amount of communal grazing areas allocated by the residents of all five villages.

The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.

The alleged plan for the sale of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) by its parent company Socfin, has raised concerns among civil society organizations and communities affected by the operations of the company amid the ongoing lawsuit for forcefully taking local community land to extend their rubber plantations.

The new Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT) will follow a similar approach to the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).

For Israeli businessman Benny Steinmetz, a dispute over a land deal he made in Romania has been the source of many of his recent legal woes, including arrests in Israel, Greece and, most recently, Cyprus.

This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation to produce bioethanol. But Indigenous communities and environmentalists worry that the project in South Papua’s Merauke regency will lead to land grabs, ecological damage, and the destruction of traditional livelihoods.