There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness.

Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia

Africa, where one in three people is malnourished, is now growing tomatoes and butter lettuce for export.

Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.

Tanzania may find itself on similar a pathway like Zimbabwe where 4,500 commercial farmers own over 90 per cent of arable land including some so-called absent landlords living luxurious lives in London.

Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.

Chinese businessman Lu Xianfeng said he wants to increase production, to meet a booming Chinese demand.

New report from Greenpeace International‘Licence to Clear’ shows systematic violations of permitting regulations as plantations were pushed into forest areas. Since 2000, forest estate land released for plantations in Papua Province has totalled almost a million hectares.

In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land

A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action

Government of Philippines offers Indonesian state-owned plantations company BUMN to develop palm oil plantations in Mindanao on an area of 120,000 ha.

An Australian management fund has nabbed another slice of historic Tasmanian farmland from billionaire Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu and his troubled dairy company.

Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them

As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.

ESCR-Net members have been engaged in several actions in opposition to Luxembourg registered agri-business Socfin Group and its operations in several Western African countries.

In spite of its lofty ideals, FPIC (free and priori informed consent) has one failing — it has no legal backing.

Terra Firma, founded by British multi-millionaire Guy Hands, has owned CPC since 2009 when it paid James Packer and partners about $425m for what was then a 5.6m hectare estate.

Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.

Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim

The West African nation of Liberia is rich is oil, diamonds and timber, but these natural resources have been both a blessing and a challenge for the fledgling democracy.

Oxfam concerned that land grabbing not being addressed adequately and with enough of a sense of urgency.

Carbon credit schemes are not just flawed as climate solutions; they have perpetrated devastating human rights abuses and land grabs.

A call against land grabbing and exploitation and for democracy, fair land distribution and an ecology of radical care.

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.

Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect Chinese sugar plantations.

Today, certain legal arrangements are facilitating unsustainable resource extraction and shifting resource control in favour of commercial interests.

Fourteen indigenous leaders and human rights defenders from forest countries called upon Dutch policy makers to take action against human rights abuses, land grabbing and deforestation in relation to large scale agriculture, timber logging and mining

Bain & Company analysis has identiied four approaches that public companies are taking to invest in agriculture.