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What if foreign investors, US corporation funds, pension funds, land development companies, and wealthy investors continue to buy more US farmland?

Royal Group of China has established a laboratory in Pakistan to develop buffalo embryos of elite animals and plans to set up a buffalo dairy farm of 8,000 heads.

The Chiefs and Landowners of Torgorme in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, Ghana want lands back that were taken under an irrigation Project of the Ghana-Millennium Development Agency.

Letter from Indigenous Peoples, civil society, and community-based organisations to household consumer goods companies demanding they immediately suspend Indonesia’s second largest palm oil company from their supply chains.

The partnership is expected to remove bureaucratic obstacles that hinder easy access to lands for agricultural and industrial investments.

The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.

Intl Farming Investment Management is seeking to raise £200m as it lists a US farmland investment trust on the London Stock Exchange

Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five multinational corporations, and could continue expansion. Plantations take up large tracts of land and water. The current water crisis in these territories would not exist if corporations had not grabbed the land from communities.

There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic.

As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.