President Irfaan Ali and his delegation wooed investors in the UAE to take advantage of opportunities in large-scale agriculture, including mega-farms, to support the UAE's food security agenda

A Madagascar, alors que beaucoup de citoyens vivent dans l’angoisse, une nouvelle version de la loi sur les investissements, autorisant les sociétés à capitaux majoritairement étrangers à acheter des terrains à Madagascar, serait en cours de finalisation.

À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à Rome, 280 groupes de 70 pays ont signé une lettre dénonçant leur financement de l'expansion de l'agriculture industrielle, de la destruction de l'environnement et du contrôle du système alimentaire par les entreprises.

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups from 70 countries sign letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture.

Cash-strapped Karuturi Flowers in Naivasha is back in court in a bid to stop receiver managers from auctioning its property over Sh1.8 billion debt

Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute, talks about the Western investors profiting off of oil palm plantations accused of human rights violations and environmental abuses.

The Hungarian government has officially canceled its plan to set up a EUR 400 million private equity fund to purchase farmland in the Central European region, including Slovakia, due to serious political tensions.

The EU is trying to move soya production from Brazil to eastern Europe where big conglomerates are buying up fertile land in the country, depleting soils, planting illegal GMOs and polluting fresh water sources.

The Indonesian government has stripped back rules protecting the environment to expedite a plan to ramp up food production through a “food estate” programme. A firm run by allies of the Minister of Defence has positioned itself to profit from the programme and is seeking $2 billion in investment.

More than a decade since the surge in large-scale land acquisitions worldwide, many land deals remain in limbo. They nonetheless have far-reaching consequences for those who depend on land as foundational to life.

The Italian firm Eni has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Congo to produce castor beans on 150,000 ha for biofuel

The Agricultural Products Industrial Park, Port and New City in Kilwa, Tanzania involves 80,000 acres of land, and the companies have obtained a land use certificate from the Tanzania government.

Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the funds go to companies like the European giant Socfin, not small Nigerian farmers

The Development Bank of Japan is the first in Japan to agree to invest in a food-focused private equity fund by backing a fund managed by Proterra Investment Advisors (Proterra Asia).

An Auckland property developer is involved in a company linked to carrying out deforestation in Indonesia, where virgin rainforest is being bulldozed to grow palm oil plantations.

When palm companies arrived in Guatemala's northern lowlands, they did not evict people to plant palm, but did so strategically through "systematic dispossession".

An open letter has been sent to the AfDB and Nordic Development Fund, calling on them to take immediate action to address reprisals against a community in Uganda impacted by the Wadelai irrigation project.

Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance', including Witness-Radio, which has been defending several communities whose lands have been grabbed by foreign agribusinesses.

Nigerian grassroots defender Ajele Sunday wanted dead for helping communities fight for their land against SOCFIN's subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State.

Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson Grains portfolio comprising 105,000 hectares of crop land in NSW and Western Australia to Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation.

Research by Sarawak Report has revealed unreported ownership by the Sultan of Selangor of a key company behind the state’s hugely controversial decision to de-gazette a swathe of protected forest at Kuala Langat.

Calls are mounting from within the government and civil society for Indonesia’s ban on new oil palm plantations, in force since 2018 and set to expire this September, to be extended.

In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.

Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and armed groups that have tried to take over the land where rural communities and Indigenous people live in the Colombian plains, including the US corporation Cargill.

In the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe,” agriculture has been dominated by oligarchs and multinational corporations since the privatization of state-owned land following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Will this change, now that a controversial law to create a land market entered into effect on July 1, 2021?

Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. pension funds and an Argentine agribusiness giant may be linked to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.

Elara India Opportunities Fund, which Indian lawmakers suspect may be linked to Gautami Adani, was the largest foreign shareholder in Karuturi Global Ltd, owning 3.25% of the company in 2018.

Banks receive nod to auction Karuturi assets in Kenya

Dairy giant Fonterra has sold two joint venture farms in China to Singapore-based AustAsia Investment Holdings for US$115.5m.

Korean palm oil giant, Korindo has been rejected from the world's green certification body in the wake of a BBC investigation. Korindo controls more land in Papua than any other conglomerate. The company has cleared nearly 60,000 hectares of forests inside its concessions - an area the size of Chicago or Seoul.