Tanzania has opened up opportunities for DRC investors to invest in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, manufacturing, mining and tourism

Pakistan General Headquarters of Lands Directorate has asked the Board of Revenue, Punjab to handover state lands of 45,267 acres to the Pakistan Army for corporate agriculture farming.

Danish investors from the Romania Farm Invest bought a farm of 1,370 hectares in Romania for EUR 10 million through one of their companies registered here – JD Agro Cocora.

Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.

Investigation reveals how SIAT Nigeria Limited is grabbing host communities' lands and paying them three times less then what local farmers typically pay to neighbouring villages to rent small plots of land for a season.

Em setembro de 2022 publicamos na prestigiosa revista Land Use Policy um trabalho intitulado “Grilagem de terras na Amazônia brasileira: Roubando terras públicas com aprovação do governo”. Esta série traz o conteúdo em português.

Fayus Nigeria Limited has commenced the development of a 3,000-hectare plantation in Ugbeturu Community, Owan West Local Council in Edo State, Nigeria

Small farmers in Brazil are giving up on food crops and risking debt, lured by the big business of soy export.

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.

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.

One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.

On Dec. 1, 2022, a French court ordered Socfin to share minutes from board meetings held over the last four years with the 145 Cameroonian plaintiffs, pointing out that the Bolloré group may have actual control over the firm

IDB Invest provided Agrovision, a US-based vertically-integrated producer and exporter of superfruits, a revolving credit line of up to $20 million to cover its blueberry production cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean, and support its growth in Peru and Mexico.

For the past 13 years, 47-year-old farmer Saturday Wilson has been embroiled in a battle with a foreign oil palm plantation company over his farmland. It has placed him behind bars three times, but he still owns the land.

The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.

Philippines' Board of Investments (BOI) announced it would invite global investors in agriculture and food production sectors to invest in Bukidnon’s 40-hectare Industrial zone.

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.

With attention centered on the civil war in the country over the last two years, the hunger and health crisis in the Omo Valley caused by the Gibe III Dam and the Kuraz Sugar Development Project has gone ignored.

Dix ans après la signature du premier bail, quelles étaient les réalités vécues par les riverains des plantations de la société JTF-Tozzi Green à Madagascar ?

A delegation of UAE government and business leaders, including Elite Agro, recently visited Mexico to discuss investments and commercial opportunities in the field of food security

PNG's Trade Minister says over 100,000 ha of lands can be made available for a rice farming project with investors from the Philippines in the areas of Brown River, Vanapa, Gabadi and Bereina.

A team of investors headed by the former Philippines Department of Agriculture Secretary has chosen Gabadi in the Kairuku District of Central Province as the ideal location for a large-scale rice farm.

« Nous exhortons les participants au Sommet de Dakar II à envisager des moyens d’arrêter les accaparements des terres des agriculteurs » martèlent 83 reseaux et organisations de la société civile

With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.

Bishops say they are witnessing a veritable avalanche of citizens from other countries in the African region and even from other parts of the world buying up land in the Central African Republic.

NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.

Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.

Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.

Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.

Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.