Four new permits for palm oil expansion issued in Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia covering area almost the size of Singapore - major parts of which are comprised of high-density forest cover. One is given to Wilmar International key suppliers, Ganda group.

Groups express support for the French newspapers and NGOs accused of defamation for reporting on the mobilisation of villagers and farmers in West Africa who live near SOCFIN's plantations. The case opened in Paris on January 25.

One of the people most active in driving Chinese investment in Australian farmland, David Goodfellow, is switching camps to help build a $1 billion Canadian investment portfolio.

The chief investment officer for the University of Illinois Foundation is aiming to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio she oversees.

Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.

Nearly 200 square kilometers of forest have been cleared in Merauke, Indonesia's Papua region since 2014 for the plantation, with 10 square kilometers being opened up just since October.

Two farmers from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were shot inside oil palm plantation of PT. Bumi Sawit Kencana (BSK), a subsidiary of Wilmar Group. They were shot by police officer assigned to secure the plantation area.

In 2011, three village communities in eastern-central Côte d’Ivoire learned that a Belgian corporation called SIAT was about to move onto their land without their consent.

Property worth millions of shillings belonging to Dominion farms is set to be auctioned next week.

Thanks to the railway and other projects, former Soviet bloc countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan smell opportunity for boosting agricultural exports to China. So does Russia.

Backed by official encouragement, China’s largest pig farming companies and new entrants are racing to build vast hog farms in the north-eastern cornbelt.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved US$10 million equity investment in Phatisa Food Fund2 (PFF2) to boost agriculture and nutrition across Africa

Starting in September, holders of customary land rights in South Sorong Regency, West Papua province, have staged a "customary law blockade" to areas of PT Permata Putera Mandiri (PT PPM)oil palm plantation. The blockade leads to violence by special police brigade (Brimob) to the villagers.

Protesters in the Oromia Regional State burned down about 70ha of a corn farm that belongs to ELFORA Agro-Industries Plc- a company owned by Sheikh Al Amoudi, who is currently under arrest in Saudi Arabia.

Agreements between the State Government and Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment were reached this week, overing 7400ha at Goomig Farmlands, near Kununurra, as part of the Ord Stage 2 project

According to the latest Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land, Chinese ownership of Australian farmland has increased tenfold in the past year, to 14.4 million hectares.

The deal will also see the company, backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, acquire two certified organic properties owned by Arcadian covering over 30,000 ha.

The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo.

Across the continent, insecure rights to land are robbing millions of financial stability and long-term prosperity.

Chinese investment in Australian farmland has risen over the past year from about 1.5 million hectares to almost 14.5 million hectares.

Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday.

Nasako Besingi has been jailed after opposing a US-funded palm-oil plantation and supporters say this is linked to Cameroon’s ‘anglophone crisis’

Urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives.

One final straw for the German company which owns 70,000 ha of land in Oromia has put a definitive end to its Ethiopian adventure.

Le groupe allemand propriétaire de 70 000 hectares de terres en Oromia a vu un dernier événement mettre un point d'arrêt définitif à son aventure éthiopienne.

Locals in Bewani, West Sepik Province are paid poorly for their labour on oil palm plantations by logging companies.

An obscure company’s quest to rebuild a century-old business could lead to the British stock exchange.

In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc.

The group, backed by European development banks, revealed it had sold 90% of its Zampalm operation to the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia, a state-backed fund, for $16m

Women gathering in Sierra Leone from African communities affected by oil palm plantations say they want their lands and forests back so that they can have an agriculture that feeds their communities.