Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.

The lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, filed on behalf of about 3,000 people, is the first class-action lawsuit filed in a Thai court by plaintiffs from another country against a Thai company operating outside Thailand.

The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.

New data on land fires in Bolivia indicates that the surge in illegal forest conversion for large-scale commercial agriculture and cattle ranching seen since 2012 is accelerating.

Setelah menanti keputusan selama lebih dari dua tahun, pada tanggal 1 Februari 2017, masyarakat Kapa menerima keputusan RSPO yang menyatakan bahwa Wilmar telah melanggar standar keberlanjutan RSPO, dan tidak memenuhi persyaratan hukum Indonesia.

Duncan Pruett reflects on the last 5 years at work advocating on the issues of land rights and foreign investments in agriculture.

Une société new-yorkaise chargée de la gestion de l'épargne-retraite des travailleurs en Suède, aux États-Unis et au Canada se soustrait aux lois brésiliennes sur les investissements étrangers pour acquérir des terres agricoles

"In a country like Liberia, it is not possible to do large-scale sustainable plantations". Silas Siakor explains the link between the Ebola epidemic and the ruthless exploitation of forest resources in the region.

As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.

Wilmar says it plans to expand its oil palm plantations holdings in West Africa and to start producing sugar in Burma.

If the Chinese government is to achieve its goal of accelerated urbanization, one issue it must deal with is food security. As China has developed more of its land, concerns have developed over whether enough arable land will be available to produce enough food to feed its massive population.

The Asian Peasant Coalition, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Danggayan dagiti Mannalon ti Isabela say that because of farmers’ militant actions a bio-ethanol plant was victoriously shut down in San Mariano, Isabela, northeastern Philippines

IMF/World Bank paper looks at how foreign investors are buying up farmland in developing countries.

Restrictive legislation on the selling of land will continue to be null and void so long as foreigners can rent farm land -- the ‘leasing loophole’.

To be brutally honest, mutual interest is the opposite of what investor countries are looking for

Cru, a small specialist fund management firm, recently launched a Malawi-based fund called Africa Invest. The fund has made an initial investment of £2m in 2,000 hectares of land that’s producing paprika for western supermarkets. With land prices starting at £800 per hectare (compared to £10,000 in the UK) it’s relatively easy to amass large farms that can be upgraded with new technology, mechanisation and better production methods. According to Cru, annual returns on capital should exceed 30 to 40 per cent.

Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges.

Une trentaine d’organisations accusent des banques de soutenir le Groupe Bolloré par leurs concours financiers et leur silence, face aux accusations de violations des droits humains dénoncés par le Conseil d’Éthique du Fonds de pension norvégien dans les plantations de sa filiale, la Société financière des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), au Cameroun.

A new report has found that investors and agribusiness in Latin America are increasingly buying up small parcels of land with abundant water access, thus securing control over the vital resource.

Possible plans to develop large-scale agriculture in Suriname have sparked backlash from Indigenous communities and others who are concerned about deforestation of the Amazon and the fate of ancestral territories.

After a delay of almost five years to the day, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has finally got around to addressing a complaint filed against a company linked to clearing Papuan rainforests.

Arizona’s attorney general has called for an investigation into a 2015 deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department for desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value.

Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness

A new report from the Oakland Institute, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.

Taking a look at the importance of securing Indigenous communities’ land rights and the global push for privatization that can deprive those communities of access to their land.

People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, GRAIN, and Ponlok Khmer urged the government of Cambodia to return disputed land from Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry to the Khmer and Indigenous Kuy communities. The groups expressed solidarity with the Indigenous Kuy people who continue to assert their legitimate land rights even amid the global health crisis.

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.

PSP Investments has been doubling down on capital commitments in Australia’s ag sector – and particularly in almonds and water recently.

Tep Vanny, an award-winning Cambodian land rights defender has been freed after spending two years in prison on charges many viewed as politically motivated.

In December 2008, the Indigenous Bunong Peoples of Bousra Commune in Cambodia awoke one morning to find that some 10,000 hectares of their forest and lands had been conceded by the government to the SOCFIN group