Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber Corporation (Socfin group) and the Liberian government.

Activist groups and nearly 300 pension plan clients accuse TIAA of “systematic land acquisitions and land management linked to deforestation, illegality and human rights violations, including in the Brazilian Cerrado.”

These assets will be added to Manulife’s existing portfolio of 400,000 acres of managed farmland across agricultural regions in Chile, the U.S., Canada, and Australia

The Kogi State House of Assembly, in Nigeria, had directed the group to appear before it, insisting no payment has been made to consummate the 2012 transaction.

The Government of Liberia through its relevant agencies and ministries, has failed in its effort to amicably resolve the disagreement between the Mano Oil Palm Company and aggrieved residents of Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties.

The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs

In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.

The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.

Zambia plans on attracting overseas investment in export agriculture by opening up 100,000 ha and by using a $300 million World Bank loan to improve roads, electricity and dams.

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government declared its readiness to utilise over 800,000 hectares of virgin land located for agricultural purposes at the 7th Kaduna Investment Summit.

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

The CEO of the Mano Palm Oil Plantation has been caught on tape instructing the head of his company’s private security to stage a protest against against the residents of the communities where his company operates.