Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.

TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents show they ignored a litany of red flags when buying farms in a region long known for land grabbing.

Une étude sur les observatoires fonciers en Afrique

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.

Le plaidoyer des communautés soutenues par des organisations de la société civile a contraint l’entreprise à ne céder que trois sites sur les cinq escomptés, pour une superficie totale d’environ trois hectares, alors que les communautés en espéraient 30 hectares.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

African Agriculture, une entreprise américaine qui prévoit de cultiver de la luzerne pour nourrir le bétail au Sénégal, s'apprête à lancer une première offre publique de vente sur le Nasdaq

À la une de la presse, ce mardi 4 avril, le combat de citoyens, éleveurs et paysans tchadiens contre les méthodes d’un des plus grands groupes agro-alimentaires mondiaux, accusé de chercher à accaparer leurs terres.

Dans le sud du Tchad, citoyens, éleveurs et paysans se battent contre les méthodes de cette multinationale présente dans onze pays africains. L'Humanité a enquêté.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.

Forests in Cambodia have seen large-scale deforestation with rubber and cassava plantations, illegal logging and other economic interests, but despite the criminalisation, communities are fighting back

PT Kenertec Power Systems, a company belonging to the Korindo group has agreed to end a long-running lawsuit intended to silence a civil society campaign to protect rainforest, in Indonesia’s Papua province, threatened by Korindo’s extensive palm oil operations after a judge in Germany set to dismiss the case.

The war in Ukraine could stimulate a new global land race that could affect the world's agricultural system, says a new study by researchers at the Politecnico di Milano.

Des centaines d’agriculteurs ne peuvent plus cultiver leurs champs dans la localité de Ngo, située dans le département des Plateaux Batéké, à 250 kilomètres au nord de Brazzaville, en République du Congo. La raison de leur expulsion : le groupe pétrolier TotalEnergies veut y créer une plantation d'acacias et ainsi obtenir une compensation carbone.

Mission Produce is vertically integrated in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and South Africa, and manages over 5,500 hectares of avocados.

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

The Competition Authority of Kenya has given a ray of hope to more than 3,000 workers of Karuturi Flowers (200 ha) after it approved its purchase by Shalimar Flowers Kenya Limited.

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.

Vincent Bolloré, son groupe et ses divers porte-parole restent extrêmement chatouilleux au sujet des plantations africaines et asiatiques. Au point de multiplier les procès en diffamation sur le sujet, et de se voir accusés de mener des poursuites-bâillons destinées à faire taire leurs adversaires parlant un peu trop fort sur ce thème.

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

Food and agribusiness investor Arable Capital Partners has expanded its footprint in the fresh fruit segment through a new partnership with BlazerWilkinsonGee, a grower, packer, and shipper of strawberries in North America.

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 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.

The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.

Communities protest grabbing, bulldozing and replacing of their biodiversity with monocrop oil palms by Fayus Nigeria Ltd and several other of the Edo State governor's business friends and multinational companies.

The Anti-Corporate Farming Law was created in 1932 to keep corporations out of North Dakota by preventing them from owning North Dakota farmland. This was to protect local, family farms.

Federal Law n° 14,130/2021: Investment Funds in Agro-industrial Production Chains allows foreign investors to participate in the land market without having property or domain over rural lands.