A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in

In April 2022, Socfin’s Swiss subsidiary Socfinco FR announced it will stop providing managerial assistance to the state-owned Guinean rubber and oil palm company Soguipah by the end of 2022. A commentary.

Resulta contradictoria la política de tierras del PCCh, dado que con las grandes falencias en el manejo de las tierras agrícolas del país a su cargo se haya volcado a comprar tierras en el extranjero.

Okomu Oil, one of the two commercial palm oil producers listed on the Nigeria's stock exchange, is reaping record profits from current rise in the price of palm oil.

Participants of Liberia's Civil Society Organizations Oil Palm Working Group, through the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), have agreed on several strategies to work within making the sector better.

When the ABC's Vote Compass asked whether the federal government should further restrict foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land, 88 per cent of voters said they "somewhat" or "strongly" agreed that it should.

Film by Reunion of Episcopal Conferences in West Africa shows how land grabbing and extractivism are depriving communities of their livelihood and making the fight for social justice increasingly urgent.

Report prepared by MUDEV on the case of Plantations et Huileries du Congo.

The 16 ha greenhouse is a joint venture between the Israeli company, Inosselia Agro, and the government of Malawi established in 2019 that supplies vegetables to supermarkets.

The Indonesia government's Food Estates programme could could lead to corruption, where corporate and state actors and their family and friends – not West Papuans – benefit from the allocation of land for Food Estates.

Socfin says the result of clauses limiting lease agreements to an initial max of 5000 hectares, and for a period not exceeding 21 years for non-citizens, would be no more investment in rubber, forestry, palm oil or other plantation crops

On 21 April 2022, the Court of Appeal of Zambia handed down judgment in the case of Molosoni Chipabwamba and 12 Other displaced village owners v Yssel Enterprises Ltd and 7 Others. It cancelled the Certificate of Title issued to Bills Farm Limited (4th Respondent) following an unlawful conversion of customary land to State land, and ordered that the land already converted to State land reverts to customary tenure.

Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.

African Agriculture Inc’s vision, according to Gora Seck, President of the Board, LFT Senegal, is to create 5,000 jobs, sow over 20,000 hectares and develop exports of alfalfa to other countries.

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.

The company will make investments worth 25 million euro in Serbia this year, including 9 million euro in the modernisation of farming machinery in Serbia, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.

Para corporaciones e inversionistas, el acceso a informaciones actualizadas de un “perfil digital de tierras” permite localizar, cuantificar la oferta y la demanda y fijar precios sobre las tierras, la producción y los recursos naturales, así como los créditos de carbono.

US-based African Agriculture Inc., which wholly owns the 20,000 ha Les Fermes de la Teranga in northern Senegal, is going to do an IPO to raise funds for its first 10,000 ha planting.

Launch of the report and debate between the authors and international experts on development finance

The complaint to the OECD lodged by Friends of the Earth was supposed to deal with adverse impacts of three of the bank’s palm oil clients, ranging from human rights and labour rights violations to deforestation

In the yesteryears, international investors trooped to the Kenyan lakeside town in search of land to grow flowers but it is no longer the case.

Hundreds of indigenous people began gathering in the Brazilian capital for a 10-day protest camp to oppose a government bill in Congress that would open their protected lands to commercial agriculture.

Governor Sani Bello told the UAE investors that Niger State has the highest landmass in Nigeria and has 21 grazing reserves, part of which could be used for massive production of Rhode Grass for export.

For Elite Agro LLC, a UAE-based agriculture company with large-scale farming operations in Africa, Europe and Asia, Fiji offers a "strategic position" to allow the company to "grow its position in the Southern Hemisphere”

A massive pig breeding and farming operation in Vietnam is set to expand, aided by $26 million in funding recently granted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Un appel à manifestation d’intérêt a été lancé par le ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Élevage en partenariat avec l’EDBM (Economic Development Board of Madagascar), en vue d’attirer des opérateurs économiques à investir dans l’agri-business.

Le gouvernement malgache vient de lancer un appel aux investisseurs à manifester leur intérêt pour la mise en œuvre des projets d’agribusiness dans les terrains pouvant aller de 100 à plus de 2 000 ha. Des OSC s'indigent.

Colonial and anti-colonial movements’ have deeply shaped the patterns and impacts of concessions in Southeast Asia. In some cases, communities have experienced dispossession through land grabs dressed as concessions. In others, concessions are part of a re-concentration of land holding.