The Sierra Leone Agriculture signed a 50-year lease for 41,582 hectares of land for the development of palm oil, displacing over 30,000 residents and farmers, mostly women, in the Northwest district of Sierra Leone

The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.

Agrinurture Inc. is in talks with the Department of Justice through the Bureau of Corrections over the development of about 2,000 hectares of property into an integrated agri-tourism corn plantation in Palawan, Philippines.

The loan to the Canadian palm oil company operating in the DR Congo is provided by CDC Group plc, the UK Government’s development finance institution, and follows another $5 million facility announced on October 28, 2019

Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.

Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region.

Bonduelle, a French firm which operates 10,000 hectares of farmland to supply its production facilities, continues its development in Russia with the acquisition of a frozen vegetables plant

As announced as part of Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to Africa, the Department for International Development will provide a further £55m to support AgDevCo's mission to create jobs, improve food security and boost prosperity in Africa.

Located in Yunnan in the southwest of the country, the farming project will operate under the business name, Yunnan Avocado Agriculture Development Limited, and with an eventual goal of building out a fully integrated supply chain.

The FAO's analysis of a number of these land deals in Africa suggests that objectives of enhancing food security and stimulating socio-economic development.are usually not attained and that their sustainability is uncertain.

Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture invites potential national and international investors to finance irrigation projects of 200,000 hectares for food production, including the controversial ProSavana programme and Lurio River Valley Development Project.

The Mozambican and Japanese governments will take advantage of President Filipe Nyusi's visit to Japan this week to reactivate the agricultural development project, Pro-Savana.

By far the largest current risk to this uniquely valuable ecosystem in the Congo is a giant concession issued to Malaysian firm Atama Plantation for the development of palm oil.

Conflicts over land are likely to increase following a peace deal as once no-go areas open up for business and development projects, experts say

In March the World Bank board granted a waiver of its current safeguard policy for indigenous peoples in relation to a loan to the government of Tanzania for SAGCOT, a multi-million dollar public-private partnership agribusiness development project.

Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.

Cables obtained by the non-profit Oakland Institute through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that U.S. government officials pushed Cameroon to approve a deeply controversial oil palm development owned by Herakles Farms.

A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., has concluded plans to set up a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State, Nigeria.

Sino-Russian fund of agricultural development is exploring the possibility of financing 17 agricultural enterprises in Russia’s Far East, with a decision to provide four projects with $480 million in funds soon to be taken.

Impactos sociais do projecto da sociedade Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited no Regadio do Baixo Limpopo.

Ugandan farmers want the United Nations Development Programme to cut ties with Kenya’s Bidco and investigate it for alleged malpractices against Ugandan, Kenyan and Tanzanian growers.

Kurt Langbein, director of a documentary film, “Land Grabbing“ visits the scenes of land grabs and talks to farmers, local communities and to the investors behind the schemes. The injustice of this destructive “development” model could not be clearer.

The representative of the African Development Bank, Septime Martin, announced Wednesday in Malange, the funding of several public and private projects in the field of agro-industry in Angola.

Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.

Over the past couple of decades, China has embraced trade agreements that oblige it to import foods and implemented policies that favour the development of larger farms and massive agribusiness and food corporations.

The collaboration of the two companies is part of the overall development of Amatheon’s already 40 000 hectares titled farm block.

South Africa's Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform tried to alleviate jitters that the prohibition of land ownership by foreign nationals would drive away investors.

Kuwait's Al-Badel International Development Company said it will launch a US$1.5 billion project to grow sugar cane in southern Mozambican province of Gaza within the next three months.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €4 million loan to Spanish-owned Sanlucar Flor’alia, the first large-scale raspberry plantation ever established in Tunisia.

The Coca-Cola Co has made a good start in axing land grabs from its supply chain, but it must work harder in proving that its bottlers and sugar suppliers do not violate land rights, development experts told the company.