A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.

The Trade Secretary of the Philippines invites Chinese investors to consider the Philippines as "an investment destination for plantations and processing facilities"

In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.

The wait is over the implementation of mega farms following the releasing of K500 million to facilitate the rollout of the farms.

Waves of evictions and the criminalization of Q’eqchi’ Maya communities propel rural poverty and forced migration.

African Agriculture has agreed to a public-private partnership with the Government of Mauritania and the communities of Boghé on the Senegal River Valley for a phased commercial farming buildout up to $500mm of investment.

As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.

Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government has given companies like Olam access to large hectares of farmlands, a development some peasant farmers say has succeeded in relegating them to the background.

Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.

A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"

This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.

Last May, the Cameroonian government decided to allocate 95,000 hectares of land to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry to develop an agro-industrial facility aimed at reducing expensive Western food imports.

Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry

Más de 100 organizaciones denuncian a la RSPO durante su 19ª asamblea general por el lavadoverde de la destrucción del medio ambiente, los abusos de los derechos humanos y laborales y el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de la industria del aceite de palma

Plus de 100 organisations dénoncent la RSPO lors de sa 19ème assemblée générale pour avoir écoblanchi la destruction de l'environnement, les violations des droits humains et du travail et l'accaparement des terres par l'industrie de l’huile de palme.

Lebih dari 100 organisasi mengecam RSPO dalam sidang umum ke-19nya karena melakukan greenwashing terhadap perusakan lingkungan, pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan buruh, serta perampasan tanah oleh industri kelapa sawit.

Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone

The Competition Authority of Kenya has given a ray of hope to more than 3,000 workers of Karuturi Flowers (200 ha) after it approved its purchase by Shalimar Flowers Kenya Limited.

The five regional, mega agro-industrial parks "must become the horse on which the African Continental Free Trade Area must run".

For Minneapolis-based Proterra Investment Partners, the sale represents a second lucrative exit in its agricultural funds, after it sold a 22,386-hectare cropping portfolio in Victoria and South Australia last year.

Despite objections by numerous community organisations and representatives, Siaya Kenya's National Land Commission will provide Lake Agro Ltd 17,250 acres of land at the Yala Swamp for agricultural use in a 66 years lease agreement.

Compagnie Fruitier in Ghana hopes that issues of land allocation to local farmers would be expedited to avoid the problem of encroachment on lands already allocated.

Aliko Dangote has announced that the Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc is significantly scaling up its investment in the sugar sub-sector in line with the requirement of the Nigeria Sugar Master plan

Le gouvernement camerounais a décidé d’attribuer 95 000 hectares de terres – soit trois fois la superficie de Yaoundé la capitale camerounaise – à la société Tawfiq Agro Industry, pour le développement d’un complexe agro-industriel visant à réduire les importations massives de denrées alimentaires de l’Occident.

The Japanese insurer has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp

On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia

A mediation process is unlikely to address long-lasting tensions and tenure issues that arise when ‘development’ projects on public lands take over large tracts of ancestral land

At least eight states in the US considered implementing a new limit on foreign control of agricultural land, and one, Indiana, passed a new law limiting new investment by foreign companies

The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.