Catholic bishops from Europe and Africa have issued a strong joint statement warning that Africa is once again becoming a “battleground for external interests” — particularly over land, resources and Europe’s climate agenda.

The Rohatyn Group , a private equity firm based in New York, is now the largest owner of agricultural land in the state of Michigan, making acquisitions through offshore companies registered in Singapore

Lao Red Loong Durian is leasing 500 hectares of land in Vientiane province, Laos and has completed the development of a first-phase 60-hectare pilot zone, planting over 7,000 Black Thorn durian trees.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is calling on the private sector to invest in the 336,000 hectares that the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority plans to complete to make the land suitable for agriculture.

The Lagos Aquaculture Centre for Excellence initiative – a joint venture between the Lagos State government and Dula Agro-Services Limited, located on 35 hectares of land in Igbonla, Epe, is designed to serve as production facility for fish fingerlings, processing, and as an off-take facility for all fish farmers in Lagos

The agreement, one of the largest single buyer agreements to date, will see Microsoft receive carbon credits from a pipeline of individual Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects worldwide.https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-to-purchase-18m-tons-of-carbon-credits-from-rubicon-carbon/

Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.

Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.

Company's response to an inquiry from Business and Human Rights Research Centre

Governor Alex Otti assures a delegation of an Israeli based agricultural investor that his government can provide land, adding that the provision of land could be the government’s own equity to the investment.

Corporate-backed farming groups from North America and the UK have emerged as key players in the nation’s farmland market in the past year.

Response to an inquiry from Business & Human Rights Research Centre

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

The bigger question—one Tasmania must answer soon—is how much of its food-bowl can be outsourced to balance sheets before community cohesion snaps.

Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.

The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.

La Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RDC) sta aumentando la coltivazione di olio di palma, con l'idea di diventare un Paese esportatore e di affacciarsi alla produzione di biocombustibili, rischiando però di mettere a repentaglio la sopravvivenza di intere comunità e di creare nuovi conflitti, in un Paese già ai primi posti delle classifiche mondiali per fame e insicurezza alimentare.

In Europe, the appropriation of agricultural land by other actors, such as investors and supermarkets, raises concerns by driving up prices and reducing access for future farmers, as well as threatening food security and the sustainability of the EU.

Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges.

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

Cameroonian villagers protesting on March 25 against plantation company Socapalm's replanting of oil palm trees on disputed land were dispersed with tear gas by local law enforcement.

On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton project, Uzbekistan. In 2019, a presidential decree allocating 50,000 hectares of land to Indorama Agro resulted in the arbitrary termination of thousands of farmers’ land leases without free, prior and informed consent.

Part asset manager, part farmland operator, The Land Group acquires property and manages it with a variety of regenerative practices for institutional, family office, and fund investors. The firm currently has 40,000 hectares under operation in Uruguay and Paraguay.

In Mbome Ngwandang, Cameroon, a decade-long struggle unfolds as a rural community fight to reclaim their ancestral land from agro-industrial grip.

The conflict between the European agro-industrial giant SOCAPALM and the community of Apouh à Ngog, in Cameroon, has taken a dark turn as 30 armed security forces fire tear gas against villagers determined to protect their land. Report from News Upfront.

The Ondo State Government has secured 10,000 hectares of land in the Southern Senatorial District for a $200 million agricultural project.