A strong set of guidelines for land acquisitions abroad could take years, but is necessary for protecting the interests of small farmers, political leaders said.

Arab agricultural ministers decided to urge government-owned and private companies, as well as Arab financiers and industrialists, to invest in common agricultural projects in qualified countries. The future belongs to those who produce their own food.

Al Qudra Holding, the Abu Dhabi-based investment company, plans to acquire roughly 400,000 hectares of land in the Middle East, East Africa and Far East by the end of the first quarter of next year in a major expansion of its agricultural operations.

Buyers from the UAE have expressed interest in investing in the local agriculture sector, taking advantage of favourable climate, vast tracts of fertile land and the availability of numerous water bodies.

Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.

In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

The strategy for Lombard Odier is to create nature-based investment assets by deploying capital into monoculture coffee plantations near forests and to re-forest them, creating shaded, biodiverse agroforests.

The Afrise women's association launched an international petition to stop the replanting of oil palm monocultures around their homes and over the grave sites of their ancestors.

A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

The increased use of land as a commodity and the increasing demand for land has resulted in more forced land evictions.

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.

Carbon credit schemes are not just flawed as climate solutions; they have perpetrated devastating human rights abuses and land grabs.

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.

Water Asset Management has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated land across Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada as well as pending deals in New Mexico and Texas.

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

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.

In 2014, over 700 Cambodian villagers filed a complaint with the Thai Human Rights Commission against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol, accused of forced displacement, property destruction and land grabbing.The trial on the substance of the case is expected to start in April 2023, with a verdict at the end of next year.

We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.

New podcast, in English, featuring Ardo Sow from the Collectif pour la Défense du Ndiaël

As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

Film maker Gabriela Cowperthwaite uncovers a massive global scheme to gobble up resources, pairing with the Center for Investigative Reporting to bring these shadowy operations to light.

Voters will decide whether to create a new government entity to take back control of water held by one of Hawaii’s most powerful agribusiness corporations and a Canadian pension fund.

SAO Agro Services Ltd aided by eight vehicles loaded with security corps and officers of the Nigerian Army invaded Ofosu area with a bulldozer to begin the destruction of farmlands of over 20,000 farmers.

Host communities of Okomu Oil Palm Company PLC in Edo State, yesterday, staged a protest over alleged blockade, digging of trench on the road leading to their communities by the company.

The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.

Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.

Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible tropical agriculture.” But over the past decade, the company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of Nigerian soldiers as a de facto security force for its plantations.