Ekiti State Government has appealed to communities protesting against alleged shoddy acquisition of 55,000 hectares of land designated as agricultural processing zone to eschew violence.

Under the terms of the MoU, Eni and Sonangol will jointly identify and assess opportunities in agro-industrial supply chains in Angola for the production of low carbon fuels.

L’interdiction pour les étrangers d’acquérir un terrain reste inchangée dans la loi, toutefois ils ont droit à un bail emphytéotique de 99 ans -- une vente déguisée, selon la société civile

Groups call on development banks and their governments to ensure that the mediation panel takes steps to rectify the situation.

Des organisations demandent aux banques de développement et à leurs gouvernements de veiller à ce que le groupe de médiation prenne des mesures pour rectifier la situation

The parties will explore opportunities to valorize residues from agro-industrial value chains to produce vegetable oils, which are not in competition with the food chain, for Eni’s biorefineries.

The 2000 hectares of agricultural land, along with buildings and related assets, is located within the Mkushi Farm Block of Zambia’s Region II agricultural zone.

The agreement between Mauritania and Al Dhafra Company includes 2,000 hectares of agricultural land in the state of Ataraza to cultivate grains, fruits and vegetables, as well as fodder crops.

Researchers say the construction of a dam and sugarcane plantations has dispossessed the Lower Omo’s peoples of their farming and grazing lands and irreversibly altered the natural cycles of the Omo River.

On the Canadian prairies, some worry about a future where two or three massive farms, or investors, control most of the land in a municipality.

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Big producers eye growth and China market, but must drill for water – to depths small farmers cannot reach.

The Development Bank of Japan annonces investment in fund that will pursue a diversified portfolio of high-quality food and agriculture investments in targeted regions across Australia and New Zealand.

After ten years, the Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil through is investments in TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture LLC.

Folium’s portfolio of sustainably managed forestry and ag assets are diversified across Australia, Brazil, Chile, Panama, Portugal, Spain, the U.S., and Uruguay.

Un informe de Global Witness dice que instituciones financian a sabiendas a comerciantes de carne vacuna acusados de tener vínculos con la deforestación en el Gran Chaco.

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.

Fund II invests on a global scale in production assets across a range of crop types including coffee, almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, and olive oil.

Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.

The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.

Ministry of Agriculture will finance state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production even as the government seeks to lease out more chunks of unutilised farms to the private sector.

Across the region, people have been harassed, threatened and criminally charged in retaliation for opposing land and water grabs linked to mining, dams and industrial agriculture, cementing the region’s ranking as one of the world’s most perilous for environmental and land rights defenders.

As Mennonite colonies continue to expand, so too are their massive crop fields, which are putting pressure on Santa Cruz’s Indigenous Territories and other protected areas.

In recent years, the Ethiopian government has been enthusiastically renting large swathes of its territory to both local and foreign investors, regardless of who is already living there.

Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.

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

The Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice is an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments address the interconnected issues of hunger, land and resource grabs, and the climate crisis.

African Agriculture (AAGR), a US company planning to grow alfalfa for livestock feed in Senegal, is set to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. But the land concession it holds used to be part of the Ndiaël nature reserve, a wetland that’s home to many threatened species and a key grazing ground for local herders.

Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali offered India 200 acres of land for exclusive cultivation and production of millets in honour of the United Nations declaring the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet