A group of farmers and pastoralists from Zindiwa Community in Nigeria's Bauchi State are suing the state government over the allocation of 10,000 hectares of farmland to Tiamin Rice limited.

The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.

Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.

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.

Entretien avec Bâ Adama Moussa, le maire de Boghé, sur le projet « Boghé ville Agro-écologique » et le rôle de African Agriculture Inc

The Trade Secretary of the Philippines invites Chinese investors to consider the Philippines as "an investment destination for plantations and processing facilities"

Une plateforme citoyenne tchadienne dénonce, une fois de plus, les menaces d’expropriation des populations par Olam/Arise

Arizona’s attorney general has called for an investigation into a 2015 deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department for desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value.

Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone

Para 2026, Brasil BioFuels quiere aumentar en un 60% la superficie dedicada a la producción de palma aceitera en Brasil, pasando de 200.000 a 320.000 hectáreas.

The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors

Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 millions d’hectares d’agropoles à Madagascar

L’agrégation agricole - une nouvelle forme d'accaparement des terres, inspiré de la politique agricole du Maroc - gagne du terrain à Madagascar

About a hundred farmers and indigenous peoples voiced out their opposition to the expansion of oil palm plantations in Philippines with nine companies from Malaysia and Indonesia, have signaled their intention to invest in Mindanao.

Más violencia por la empresa SOCAPALM y la fuerza policial contra el pueblo indígena Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) que intenta recuperar parte de sus tierras. Desde 2010 la filial del grupo europeo Socfin se ha adueñado de más del 90% de la tierra de la comunidad, 3700 hectáreas, transformadas en plantaciones de palma.

L'accumulation d'énormes quantités de terres par un petit groupe de propriétaires fonciers alimente les inégalités et la crise climatique, selon un nouveau rapport qui appelle à une redistribution des terres et à des réformes fiscales mondiales pour inverser la tendance

The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Obi has ordered all parties in a land dispute involving 21 Tiv communities, the Nasarawa State government, and the Nigerian Army to maintain the status quo and preserve the disputed 10,000 hectares of ancestral farmlands pending the determination of the suit.

A long-standing land dispute has recently escalated between a subsidiary of the European holding company Socfin and the Indigenous Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) community in Cameroon’s Littoral region.

Carbon Done Right Developments has dropped a 10,000 ha project in Ghana, put a 32,000 ha project in Sierra Leone on hold and is looking for new investors to expand its 25,000 ha rewilding project in Sierra Leone, after BP Carbon Trading did not exercise an option to pre-purchase carbon credits.

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

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.

Propuesta crea restricciones para la restitución de tierras a las comunidades indígena, cómo para el número de beneficiários, fijando un límite máximo del 5% para el aumento del número de miembros de la familia en 4 anõs, así como se mantiene la voluntariedad de los propietarios de tierras ponerlas a venta.

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.

Prima Wawona, the one-time largest peach producer in the world, financially rotted in the few years after private equity players took control. A former owner wants to know how.

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.

Al Dahra Group is interested in 180,000 acres. Selu Ltd, another private party has eyes on 20,000. Currently, NIA has 10,000 acres under irrigation with plans to add another 10,000 in the medium term.

Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.

Norway pledges US$15mn towards the implementation of the Flagship 7 (Agricultural Masters Plan), which focuses on creating an enabling environment for replicating the SAGCOT model in three additional Agricultural Growth Corridors, namely Mtwara, Central and Northern Corridors.