Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South under a compromise arrangement backed by Zimbabawe government.

For more than a decade, some Bunong villagers have been trying to reclaim and gain legal recognition for their customary land that have been acquired by Luxembourg-based Socfin Group’s subsidiaries since 2007. Some details of the settlement were released this September, in a joint statement issued by the firms and community representatives who negotiated on behalf of 210 families in five villages.

Paine Schwartz has increased its stake in Australia’s top grower, packer, and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables and owner of several blueberry farms in China and Morocco.

As soon as the rice is harvested, the corn is seeded; three months later it’s watermelons then bananas, cash crops grown year round on farms in Laos rented by Chinese investors to feed China’s insatiable appetite for fresh produce.

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.

« Ils sont les pionniers de l’accaparement des terres »

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.

In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.

The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government declared its readiness to utilise over 800,000 hectares of virgin land located for agricultural purposes at the 7th Kaduna Investment Summit.

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.

Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.

The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!

IMC specializes in the cultivation of cereals, oilseeds and milk production on about 123,300 hectares of land in Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine.

Olam says 4,000 ha of its large rice farm in Nigeria were submerged and that damages could be worth as much as $15 million.

Large-scale land acquisitions repeatedly fall short of their acclaimed socioeconomic benefits. In Laos, the government has started to question its own “Turning Land into Capital” policy, and reviews land acquisitions or concessions with regard to their socioeconomic impacts.

The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.

A potential large-scale rice farming company in the Philippines will be sending a delegation to Papua New Guinea in November this year to evaluate the country’s potential for large-scale rice farming in Central Province.

Many studies on SEZs focus on their economic performance. Less attention has been paid to how they affect land rights, or broader questions they raise about territorial governance, legislation and economic development models.

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

What if foreign investors, US corporation funds, pension funds, land development companies, and wealthy investors continue to buy more US farmland?

The corn will be grown in Makabana in the Republic of Congo on 4,981 hectares of Bio Agro land, under contract by ATG, and there are an additional 2,000 hectares available to ATG under the agreement.

Protestors accused the Chinese company PT Julong Group Indonesia of taking over local land illegally for palm oil cultivation.

Royal Group of China has established a laboratory in Pakistan to develop buffalo embryos of elite animals and plans to set up a buffalo dairy farm of 8,000 heads.

The Chiefs and Landowners of Torgorme in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, Ghana want lands back that were taken under an irrigation Project of the Ghana-Millennium Development Agency.

The partnership is expected to remove bureaucratic obstacles that hinder easy access to lands for agricultural and industrial investments.

Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda

Morocco is seeking investors for a $213 million agriculture project in Western Sahara that will establish farms on 5,200 ha for growing fruit, vegetables and animal feed.

A tycoon once named one of Indonesia’s richest has gone on trial for alleged corruption estimated to have cost the state the equivalent of US$5.25 billion and caused major environmental damage from the destruction of vast amounts of virgin forest for oil palm plantations.