On 13 October 2023, ActionAid Italy, the collective for the defense of Malagasy lands - TANY and BMTT filed a complaint at the Italian NCP against the Italian renewable energy company JTF Tozzi Green. The complainants allege that the leases and usage of land in Madagascar by JTF Tozzy Green’s subsidiary JTF Madagascar infringe on the human rights of the people living in the Ihorombe region.

Colombia's government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as part of a bid to increase agricultural output and boost peace efforts.

Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.

A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.

Une poignée d’investisseurs et d’entreprises agricoles auraient acquis plusieurs terres agricoles dans La Mitis sans pour autant les exploiter

Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.

Des gros producteurs de légumes étendent leurs domaines en Loire-Atlantique. Ce faisant, ils détériorent en profondeur les paysages et les écosystèmes, dénoncent élus, riverains, petits maraîchers et associations

Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo.

The Special Investment Facilitation Center has asked the Ministry of National Food Security and Research for an update on the invitation sent to the Almarai company of Saudi Arabia to invest in farming in Pakistan.

A video produced by War on Want shows how the villagers of Udugama are under threat as the oil palm plantation company Watawata Plantations destroys their forests and access to water.

farming communities from across Latin America to Suriname with the plan of starting a series of agriculture projects.

In the US, the National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year.

A statement by women from several counties in Liberia denounces mining and agricultural companies like Golden Veroleum for depriving women of their lands for farming.

The Supreme Court of India has cancelled anticipatory bail granted to Ram Karuturi who is accused of defaulting on a US$6.5 million loan taken in 2011 from the government of Djibouti to develop 15,000 ha of agricultural land

Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.

Une victoire d'étape pour les 145 plaignants camerounais dans leur action en justice contre la Socapalm (Société camerounaise de palmeraies) et sa société-mère Socfin. Avec en toile de fond, la question du rôle du groupe français Bolloré.

An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry for carbon credits has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.

Un tribunal français a condamné le groupe de plantation belgo-luxembourgeois Socfin à une amende de 140 000 euros et à une astreinte.

French logistics giant Bolloré SE has been deemed an unethical investment by some of Switzerland’s most powerful pension funds.

Local communities near Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) in Margibi County are seemingly winning a case of ‘land grab’ and ‘gross human rights violations’ brought against SRC; as its parent company, Bollore Group has been blacklisted by Switzerland’s largest public pension funds.

Pour cette organisation composée d’agriculteurs et planteurs des villages où sont situées les plantations de la filiale de Socfin au Cameroun, il faut sensibiliser les riverains sur la nécessité de préserver leur territoire.

Colombia está demorada en tener un marco regulatorio estatal de la extranjerización y acaparamiento de tierras, indicó la ministra de Agricultura, Jhenifer Mojica

More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for the cost of “land preparation” and other fees.

La députée de Verdun et responsable de Québec solidaire en matière d’Agriculture a présenté le projet de loi 495 afin de lutter contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles et mieux protéger la relève agricole.

On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs in organizing an International Conference on Global Land Grabbing on 19-21 March 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.

Pakistan's army is taking over vast swaths of government-owned land to grow food but the moves are fanning concerns about the powerful military's pervasive presence in a country facing economic collapse.

A decade after transnational palm oil company Wilmar took control of a derelict oil palm plantation, local residents continue to fight for the farmlands, forests and rivers they use.

The board of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company, Costa Group, has agreed to a cut-price $1.5 billion takeover offer from a consortium headed by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.

Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.

A través de un proyecto de ley, el Gobierno boliviano apunta a regular las tierras en manos de extranjeros y limitarles la tenencia hasta un máximo de dos mil hectáreas.