Aggrieved farmers in Ondo State protested over the alleged forceful takeover and destruction of their farmlands by SAO Agro-Allied Services Limited, a company owned by the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, in collaboration with the state government.

Tension is brewing in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State as Tiv farmers have issued a stern warning to Governor Abdullahi Sule over alleged forceful seizure of their ancestral farmlands by the state government for a large-scale rice farm.

Cryptocurrency company Tether announces the acquisition of a 70% controlling stake in Adecoagro S.A. , a farming company that owns over 210,000 hectares in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Governor Alex Otti assures a delegation of an Israeli based agricultural investor that his government can provide land, adding that the provision of land could be the government’s own equity to the investment.

The first Young Africans' Forum on Land was held in in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire to address concerns about the lack of land security for small farmers in Africa.

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Benue State has secured funding for a 1000-hectare fodder project which is for export to the United Arab Emirates, and they plan to increase that to 6,000 hectares within the next 2 to 3 years.

With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

Farmers in Uzbekistan say the government is forcing them to surrender land to Chinese businesses under the guise of state-backed development, taking thousands of hectares of fertile cotton and wheat fields out of the hands of locals.

Agricultural ventures feature prominently, with Shandong Jialejia Agriculture committing Sh3.9 billion to a 500,000-hen egg farm in Kajiado, Zonken Group investing Sh41.6 billion in a 300-acre aloe vera processing plant in Baringo and Sh10.4 billion for a 72-acre grape vineyard.

The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.

La Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RDC) sta aumentando la coltivazione di olio di palma, con l'idea di diventare un Paese esportatore e di affacciarsi alla produzione di biocombustibili, rischiando però di mettere a repentaglio la sopravvivenza di intere comunità e di creare nuovi conflitti, in un Paese già ai primi posti delle classifiche mondiali per fame e insicurezza alimentare.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

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

The Ekiti State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has pledged to enhance its collaboration with Cavista Holdings and Agbeyewa Farms to fulfill its core mandate of securing critical national assets and infrastructure, including farmland security through the Agro Rangers Squad.

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

Peasant unions, including the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), have announced a nationwide protest on April 13 to oppose the so-called Green Pakistan Initiative, which they claim is a front to open up the country’s agriculture sector to corporate farming.

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.

The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.

On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton project, Uzbekistan. In 2019, a presidential decree allocating 50,000 hectares of land to Indorama Agro resulted in the arbitrary termination of thousands of farmers’ land leases without free, prior and informed consent.

Advocates for 22 communities affected by the problems told ICIJ the sale allowed Socfin and the IFC to minimize their responsibility for addressing harm done to workers and plantation residents, adding to longstanding criticisms of the World Bank's handling of damages caused by projects it finances.

On March 25, 2025, the people living in Apouh A Ngog village in the Litoral Region of Cameroon witnessed a brutal and traumatising act of intimidation : heavily armed government forces, including heavily armed soldiers and gendarmes arriving to supervise the replanting of oil palms by staff of SOCAPALM, part of the multinational corporation Socfin Bolloré.

Le 25 mars 2025, les habitants du village Apouh À Ngog, dans la région du Littoral au Cameroun, ont été témoin d'un acte brutal et traumatisant: des forces gouvernementales composées de militaires, de gendarmes lourdement armées ont investi le village pour encadrer le replanting du palmier à huile par le personnel de la SOCAPALM, partie de la multinational Socfin Bolloré.

The UAE-supported project aims to grow a specially bred sugarcane variety for aviation biofuel on 70,000 hectares of farmland in Brazil

The conflict between the European agro-industrial giant SOCAPALM and the community of Apouh à Ngog, in Cameroon, has taken a dark turn as 30 armed security forces fire tear gas against villagers determined to protect their land. Report from News Upfront.

The Ondo State Government has secured 10,000 hectares of land in the Southern Senatorial District for a $200 million agricultural project.