At least eight states in the US considered implementing a new limit on foreign control of agricultural land, and one, Indiana, passed a new law limiting new investment by foreign companies

In September 2022, two large contingents of national police and military were dispatched to oil palm plantation concession areas of the Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) in Lokutu and Boteka.

En septembre 2022, deux contingents de la police nationale et de l'armée ont été envoyés dans les zones de concession des plantations de palmiers à huile de la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) à Lokutu et Boteka.

The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.

Tandis que la COP 27 bat son plein en Égypte, et que tous les regards sont à nouveau tournés vers cette conférence climatique devenue le grand carnaval des promesses qui ne seront jamais tenues, une question hante sûrement de nombreux Nigériens et Nigériennes : la vente de crédits carbone, va-t-elle procurer le moindre bénéfice pour les communautés et le climat ?

Les plaignants demandent, sur la base des résultats de la mission de vérification, que les certifications RSPO de Socfin soient annulées au Cameroun, mais aussi en Sierra Leone, au Nigeria et en Côte d’Ivoire

Le ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’élevage compte aménager 222 000 hectares de terrains domaniaux en "Zone d’émergence agricole" et valoriser 68 945 hectares de terrains privés pour devenir le grenier de l’océan Indien en 2028

Un protocole d'accord a été signé entre le groupe "Agrodiv" et la société émiratie "Elite Agro LLC", en vue de développer des fermes pilotes pour la production de céréales, de fourrages et de fruits et légumes.

La délégation s’est entretenue avec les autorités locales, élus et les coopératives agricoles autour des questions foncières, sujet important dans le processus d’investissement.

We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.

L’achat de terres agricoles américaines par une société agricole chinoise, Fufeng Group, à proximité d’une base de l’US Air Force, a alarmé les sénateurs américains, qui ont écrit une lettre au Government Accountability Office soulignant les ramifications de sécurité de telles acquisitions.

These assets will be added to Manulife’s existing portfolio of 400,000 acres of managed farmland across agricultural regions in Chile, the U.S., Canada, and Australia

The Government of Liberia through its relevant agencies and ministries, has failed in its effort to amicably resolve the disagreement between the Mano Oil Palm Company and aggrieved residents of Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties.

The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs

In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.

The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.

Le projet d'exploitation de 60 000 ha est "suspendu" jusqu'à ce que l'Etat malgache fassent des aménagements exigés par l'investisseur. Analyse du Collectif TANY.

Le Collectif contre l’accaparement des Terres du Walo a fait face à la presse ce samedi pour décrier un « harcèlement » de la part de l’administration locale « avec à sa tête leur maire« .

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.

Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.

The CEO of the Mano Palm Oil Plantation has been caught on tape instructing the head of his company’s private security to stage a protest against against the residents of the communities where his company operates.

The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.

The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!

The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.

Many studies on SEZs focus on their economic performance. Less attention has been paid to how they affect land rights, or broader questions they raise about territorial governance, legislation and economic development models.

What if foreign investors, US corporation funds, pension funds, land development companies, and wealthy investors continue to buy more US farmland?

Protestors accused the Chinese company PT Julong Group Indonesia of taking over local land illegally for palm oil cultivation.

Royal Group of China has established a laboratory in Pakistan to develop buffalo embryos of elite animals and plans to set up a buffalo dairy farm of 8,000 heads.

Letter from Indigenous Peoples, civil society, and community-based organisations to household consumer goods companies demanding they immediately suspend Indonesia’s second largest palm oil company from their supply chains.