The Butler Valley leases terminated by Arizona's governor only amount to about one quarter of Fondomonte’s total farm holdings in Arizona prior to October. Besides the 3500 acres that the company leased from the state, it privately controls almost 10,000 acres more further south and closer to Vicksburg.

At COP28 in Dubai, Nigeria's National Council for Climate Change signed an agreement with France's aDryada for carbon investment projects with Osun State (reforestation of 20,000 ha) and Cross River State (57,000 ha of mangrove restoration).

The remaining land assets of what used to be PKB Corporation is being sold to a new company owned by the Serbian state

Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.

Desde Forest Peoples Programme, rechazamos enérgicamente la información difamatoria y falsa que ha sido difundida por la empresa de aceite de palma Ocho Sur y posteriormente por los medios de comunicación peruanos sobre nuestra organización y nuestra organización socia peruana, el Instituto de Defensa Legal.

Witness Radio has documented 181 cases of arbitrary arrests, detentions, imprisonments, disappearances, and other retaliatory attacks, highlighting a concerning trend in Uganda’s agricultural sector, which is marked by a significant increase in violent and retaliatory attacks and detentions.

In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

A company connected to Nigerian agribusiness Saro Africa has acquired Presco from long-time investor Siat N.V, based in Brussels, Belgium, which had held on to the company’s majority control for well over three decades until the start of this month.

Canada's public worker pension fund manager PSP Investments has made a significant stride in Australia's agricultural sector by acquiring a majority stake in Ellerslie Free Range Farms, a leading egg producer, for $180 million.

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.

Selon le journal Le Mbandja, la holding belge, qui était présentée comme une passerelle vers la diversification de l’économie gabonaise, n’a rien investi et ses différents champs sont actuellement investis par de hautes herbes.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

On Wednesday, the Luxembourg holding company Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) paid €142,000 to Cameroonian plaintiffs, a fine imposed by the French courts for failing to produce documents that could establish its links with the French company Bolloré.

Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.

A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.

Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.

Prisca Macaillat, la responsable de projets de la Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix de Pointe-Noire en République du Congo, évoque un rapport réalisé sur la compensation carbone au prix des droits humains.

A new study identifies around 18m hectares of land in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC that have been acquired in large-scale deals for logging, intensive agriculture, fossil-fuel extraction and mining.

Tumbling corn and soybean prices are sparking defaults, undermining returns for so-called Fiagros, the Brazilian investment funds backed by agricultural receivables such as interest, dividends and land-lease payments.

A Saudi dairy company that once pumped water through a lease on local farmland in far west Arizona has officially ceased operations.

Dans la province de Koh Kong, au Cambodge, des communautés locales luttent depuis 2006 contre l’accaparement de leurs terres. Après un long combat, un accord historique avec l’entreprise Tate & Lyle a permis la restitution d’une partie des terres et l’obtention d’une compensation financière

Fiagros are a new type of fund that can allow foreigners to circumvent legal restrictions and acquire land in Brazil.

La restauración del suelo es mucho menos costosa que la tala de bosques. Así el cultivo intensivo de soya crecen a través de la conversión de pasturas, los ganaderos monetizan un activo de bajo rendimiento, mientras la ganadería expandese gracias a la deforestación.

While top executives stand accused of multimillion dollar fraud, communities living near the plantations suffer from being deprived of their lands and violent harassment by PHC’s security forces.

En 2023, des groupes financiers ont acquis des exploitations espagnoles pour 2 milliards d’euros. Le principal syndicat des petits agriculteurs s’inquiète d’une ubérisation des campagnes, tandis que d’autres tentent de vendre au meilleur prix.

Con más de 37.000 casos agrarios pendientes, el país que concentra el 80% de la tierra en manos del 1% de las grandes explotaciones necesita algo más que jueces especializados para superar el desequilibrio de poder entre los contendientes.

Le nom de Socfin, la holding belgo-luxembourgeoise qui détient des dizaines de milliers d’hectares de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas, a été symboliquement saisi en France, dans le conflit qui oppose depuis des années les paysans africains et le groupe Bolloré.

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price

Le régime de retraite des fonctionnaires fédéraux canadiens a acheté une ancienne plantation de canne à sucre à Maui. Mais des habitants et des militants écologistes protestent contre cette présence étrangère qui accapare l’eau de l’île pour faire pousser des agrumes.