Durian farmers in Malaysia’s Pahang state are preparing for a legal fight to protect farmland they say is being seized by a newly-established company without proper authority.

Some villagers say they are being pressured to give up fertile land traditionally used for subsistence farming for a project called the Malipati Agrihub, with no clear benefit or consent from the broader community.

The World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman found that the IFC failed to follow its own safeguards, enabling widespread harm to land rights, community health, cultural heritage and women by the Salala Rubber Corporation.

The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Obi has ordered all parties in a land dispute involving 21 Tiv communities, the Nasarawa State government, and the Nigerian Army to maintain the status quo and preserve the disputed 10,000 hectares of ancestral farmlands pending the determination of the suit.

"Oman’s food-security programmes and water technology can link with East Africa’s arable land and examples are Kenya’s tea and coffee farms and Tanzania’s horticulture," the Chairman of East African Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture says

Les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle en Afrique ont comme effets collatéraux : la corruption en matière de gestion des ressources naturelles, des revendications contradictoires sur ces ressources, et la non-reconnaissance des régimes fonciers coutumiers.

According to an article in Reporterre, TotalEnergies has quietly abandoned the project, with only 12.5% of the proposed trees planted.

The project with Israeli firm LR Group will develop a large farming hub spread over 10,000 hectares to grow rice, maize, and soybeans using advanced tools and techniques.

A long-standing land dispute has recently escalated between a subsidiary of the European holding company Socfin and the Indigenous Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) community in Cameroon’s Littoral region.

During the exchange, the Qatari representatives expressed to the Algerian Investment Promotion Agency their strong interest in entering the Algerian market and affirmed their serious intent to launch a large-scale agricultural investment project.

Le Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Souveraineté alimentaire et le groupe israélien LR Group ont signé le 25 mai 2025 une convention de partenariat portant sur la mise en place d’un Agropole d’une superficie de 10 000 hectares sur le territoire malgache.

Le groupe Dangote va construire une nouvelle rizerie au Nigeria où il cherche à occuper tout l’écosystème, du champ à la transformation.

Cresud, con financiación de Santander, ha deforestado más de 170.000 hectáreas en Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia y Paraguay desde 2001, según informe de Global Witness.

Après une longue bataille judiciaire, les ONG et militant·es poursuivi·es diffamation ont été totalement acquittées. Le jugement rendu par la justice luxembourgeoise est très net : les accusations étaient infondées.

The Dutch-owned company that already holds 16,000 cows and more than 7,000 ha of cultivated land is planning the construction of a new 5,000-head cattle facility.