With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.

A push to ban foreign companies from owning farmland in the US state of Missouri is facing pushback from major industry groups.

Au Tchad, la création d’une zone économique spéciale dans la province du Logone Occidental alimente la controverse.

NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.

Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.

PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.

Dans une déclaration commune, les représentants du Réseau des acteurs du changement des deux Logones, au Tchad, demandent la suspension des travaux de bornage pour une Zone économique spéciale et la réalisation des études d’impact environnemental et social avant la mise en œuvre de ce projet.

Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.

RIAO-RDC exige la libération des plusieurs autochtones, habitants des villages dans le groupement Mokoso, territoire d'Ingende pour la plantation de Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC).

Wisconsin Farmers Union says that it's very difficult to find out who owns the investment firms that have been acquiring farmland in the state.

A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.

Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.

In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.

Amnesty International Sénégal et la population du village de Ndingler, ont marché ce vendredi 23 décembre, pour «sensibiliser l’Etat et l'opinion nationale sur les conséquences dramatiques de l’attribution des terres agricoles» à Babacar Ngom de Sedima

Waves of evictions and the criminalization of Q’eqchi’ Maya communities propel rural poverty and forced migration.

African Agriculture has agreed to a public-private partnership with the Government of Mauritania and the communities of Boghé on the Senegal River Valley for a phased commercial farming buildout up to $500mm of investment.

Sudan signed an agreement with a group led by the UAE's AD Ports Group and Invictus Investment to build and operate the Abu Amama port and economic zone on the Red Sea - including a 168,000 ha agriculture zone - with a $6-billion investment.

Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields

Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.

A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"

This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.

Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry

Más de 100 organizaciones denuncian a la RSPO durante su 19ª asamblea general por el lavadoverde de la destrucción del medio ambiente, los abusos de los derechos humanos y laborales y el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de la industria del aceite de palma

Plus de 100 organisations dénoncent la RSPO lors de sa 19ème assemblée générale pour avoir écoblanchi la destruction de l'environnement, les violations des droits humains et du travail et l'accaparement des terres par l'industrie de l’huile de palme.

Lebih dari 100 organisasi mengecam RSPO dalam sidang umum ke-19nya karena melakukan greenwashing terhadap perusakan lingkungan, pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan buruh, serta perampasan tanah oleh industri kelapa sawit.

Despite objections by numerous community organisations and representatives, Siaya Kenya's National Land Commission will provide Lake Agro Ltd 17,250 acres of land at the Yala Swamp for agricultural use in a 66 years lease agreement.

Poor planning and ignoring advice of indigenous groups resulted in flooding, failed crops and left behind arid, barren land that could exacerbate the climate crisis

Le gouvernement camerounais a décidé d’attribuer 95 000 hectares de terres – soit trois fois la superficie de Yaoundé la capitale camerounaise – à la société Tawfiq Agro Industry, pour le développement d’un complexe agro-industriel visant à réduire les importations massives de denrées alimentaires de l’Occident.

On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia

Small farmers in the US are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers.