Peasant families are threatened with eviction by Brasil Bio Fuels oil palm plantation company, with the complicity of the state governmen.

Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up

A new World Bank report on land in Africa acknowledges the failures of large land deals but still promotes large-scale land investments.

Villagers in Madagascar are suffering intimidation and heavy pressure from the Italian company Tozzi Green, which now wants to produce carbon credits on 11,000 hectares of farmland in the Ihorombe region, say farmers organisations and NGOs

Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.

A comprehensive study of thousands of agribusiness and other projects funded by the World Bank’s IFC from 1994-2022 finds that the average project "causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced”.

Local herders and pastoralists communities are contesting the ownership of at least 20,000 hectares located at AAGR’s Les Fermes de la Teranga (LFT) farm in Senegal

For almost ten years, AP Pension has bought farms for DKK 700m (EUR 94m). Now, private equity fund Erhvervsinvest will take over the administration and ”develop” the portfolio.

For almost ten years, AP Pension has bought farms for DKK 700 million. Now the private equity fund Erhvervsinvest will take over the administration and "develop" the portfolio.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks.

The new law gives foreign investors equal rights to land as ordinary Malagasy, some who are still demanding the return of ancestral lands seized by the French in the 19th century.

The Nubian Desert in north-eastern Sudan might not be anyone’s idea of promising farmland, but the Agriculture Investment Holding Company (Ethmar) Ltd, a joint venture between Royal Group of Abu Dhabi and DAL Group, Sudan’s biggest conglomerate, is investing $225m to change all that on over 105,000 hectares.

The UN counted 355 SLAPPs from the business community between 2015 and 2022. Individuals and organisations that expose human rights violations, abuses in mining, agriculture and forestry and on palm oil plantations are most often affected.

Groups call on European governments to honour their responsibilities to the communities affected by their investments in a DR Congo palm oil plantation by taking action to stop the violence surrounding the mediation process.

Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.

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

Oil palm plantations are expanding rapidly in Brazil, mainly in the Amazonian state of Pará. BBF (Brasil BioFuels), the largest oil palm company in Brazil, stands accused of environmental crimes and violence against indigenous, quilombola and peasant communities such as Virgílio Serrão Sacramento, a community linked to the Small Farmers’ Movement (MPA).

Brasil Bio Fuels, the largest oil palm company in Brazil, stands accused of environmental crimes and violence against indigenous, quilombola and peasant communities such as Virgílio Serrão Sacramento.

Open Letter to the RSPO Board of Governors, RSPO Secretariat, Investigation and Monitoring Unit, Human Rights Working Group

New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.

Did Indonesia just save a forest the size of Belgium? Or open the floodgates for its destruction? One giant, controversial palm plantation development, whose permits were among those cancelled, will be a crucial test.

Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.

In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.

The heavily forested Sangha region in the Republic of Congo is almost entirely occupied by three concessions, including one held by the palm oil company Eco-Oil Energie SA.

In Uganda, land grabbed by local land brokers are immediately handed over to foreign companies, which then often grow the same crops as the villagers were growing before they were evicted.

Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the largest farmland owner in the US as part of his broader strategy to save the climate.

Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.

The industry boom in the demand for palm oil has come at the high price of rainforest destruction, labour exploitation, and brutal land and water grabbing. The pressure from oil palm plantations has pushed communities in West Borneo on a common struggle to access clean water and continue producing food.

Nicaragua has ramped up export production to the US amid the pandemic. But this has come at a high cost for Indigenous communities, who are being run off their land to make way for cattle ranches.