The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.

« En lieu et place des investissements annoncés, tout ce qu’ils ont mis, ce sont des barbelés qui tuent nos animaux. Nous demandons aux nouvelles autorités de s’intéresser à ces terres, comme elles s’intéressent aux terres de Dakar ou de Thiès », s'insurge El Hadji Samba Sow, président du Collectif pour la Défense de Ndiael

A SLC Agrícola anunciou a aquisição da Sierentz – outra produtora agrícola – por US$ 135 milhões, aprofundando sua estratégia asset light e chegando a dois terços de terras arrendadas.

In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.

The project, spanning 20,000 hectares in Madhya Pradesh State, will see up to 11.6 million mixed native trees planted across farmer and community land.

El Gobierno cubano contempla otorgar tierras en usufructo a empresas y personas físicas extranjeras con residencia permanente en la isla, en una nueva medida para tratar de incrementar la producción agrícola, que atraviesa una profunda crisis, según EFE

Indigenous community members in Preah Vihear province sought intervention for their communal land, which has been allegedly cleared by a company, Santana Agro Product Co Ltd., said to belong to a senior provincial official — a claim that has been denied by another official on the basis that it involves individual developers instead.

Du nouveau pour le mégaprojet de la société italienne Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) en Algérie. L’entreprise a obtenu ce jeudi le contrat de concession de 36 000 hectares

The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by English financier Guy Hands, has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.

Private entities may soon be granted access to 60-year concessions of up to 10,000 ha of degraded forests in Madhya Pradesh for carbon credit tree planting projects

Already in conflict with local communities over land grabbing, Plantation et Huilerie du Congo (PHC) has just acquired new concessions to expand its palm oil plantations in Boteka. This deprived local communities of nearly 2,500 hectares of arable land.

Australia-based Costa Group has launched a new blueberry farming project on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos, starting with 17 hectares of crops at Paksong.

The project, funded by the government's Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund, will initially support Tiamin Rice in cultivating approximately 30,000 hectares of land in Gamawa.

Quatre ans après l'éclatement médiatique du conflit entre villageois et l'industriel Babacar Ngom, la situation reste figée. Les terres contestées sont en jachère, inaccessibles aux agriculteurs depuis un arrêté préfectoral pris après des affrontements.

Australian agricultural asset manager Warakirri has announced it is targeting a $500m-plus expansion into the dairy farming sector via a new trans-Tasman investment fund.