As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.

Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields

Deforestation by land grabbers in southern Piauí intensified in the second half of 2022. Community leaders suspect that the action of land grabbers is aimed at displacing them from their territories.

Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government has given companies like Olam access to large hectares of farmlands, a development some peasant farmers say has succeeded in relegating them to the background.

BNP Paribas Asset Management has bought a majority stake in a Danish firm specialising in woodland and agricultural investments.

Between 2017 and 2021, Mennonite colonies deforested about 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of Peruvian forests and encroached into the Native land of the Indigenous communities of Buenos Aires and Caimito.

Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.

Alexander Tkachev, a former Russian agriculture minister, heads a family company that Ukrainian grain growers say has taken control of hundreds of thousands of acres of their land.

A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"

This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.

Last May, the Cameroonian government decided to allocate 95,000 hectares of land to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry to develop an agro-industrial facility aimed at reducing expensive Western food imports.