Civil society organisations launching a new campaign calling British government for an effective law to require companies and investors to take action to prevent human rights abuses, worker exploitation and environmental harm in their global operations, activities, products, services, investments and supply chains.

In 2011, the plantation management company, Socfin opened a new palm oil plantation in Malen, in south east Sierra Leone. The subsequent eight years have seen a grave property conflict emerge between a number of local residents and the company.

The collapse of the Bukanga Lonzo agro-industrial park pilot makes it clear that agro-industrial parks are a false solution to the challenges faced by DRC and Africa when it comes to food, agriculture, and poverty alleviation.

An independent investigation by witnessradio.org indicates that the foreign-owned agribusiness company Agilis Partners wants to use the 2100 hectares to grow soybeans and other crops.

World Bank is launching an unprecedented attack on the commons by pushing privatisation of customary and public land and its sale by auction to the highest bidder. The land indicator’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture rankings prescribes policy reforms to ease access to land for agribusiness.

Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.

An internal audit conducted by Wilmar International on its subsidiary company, Oil Palm Uganda Limited (OPUL) has revealed a US$1.4 million fraud within the company’s finance department.

29 March is Day of the Landless, it marks the founding anniversary of Asian Peasant Coalition and the launching of No Land, No Life! campaign. 126 organizations from 24 countries are issuing the following statement to commemorate the struggle of rural communities around the world for land and resources.

The Addax Bioenergy project continues to pose challenges to communities in Sierra Leone nine years after its start. In a new turn of events, the whole community of Tonka community has been informed it will be relocated.

Kilombero Plantation Ltd, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd. and “best in class” player in the field of socially responsible ag investments in Africa, is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions.

Communities also file second complaint against the World Bank for new financial ties to HAGL

The Australian Government's long-awaited foreign ownership of water entitlement register reveals one in 10 water entitlements is foreign-owned at 10.4 per cent.

Tensions between local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months following a complaint presented last year to the company’s international financial backers.

Ambitions for venture capital in African agriculture – once the Next Big Thing – are foundering, as is the case with the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers within the Lokutu oil palm plantation concession area of the Canadian company Feronia Inc, following weeks of growing tension between communities and the company.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says that all the states in the South-South and South-East regions have agreed to provide at least 100,000 ha for investors in oil palm plantations.

European investors will now need to disclose the steps they have taken to address the adverse impact of their investment decisions, such as land grabbing

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired Broetje Orchards, one of the largest privately-owned apple orchard operations in the U.S.

Sime Darby, the world’s biggest oil palm planter by land holdings, is considering exiting its palm and rubber operations in Liberia

Elite Foods CEO says his South African company wishes to take advantage of the Northern Province's huge expanse of water and land.

Students gathered in front of Harvard’s central administration to urge Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow to divest the University’s $39.2 billion endowment from farmland holdings around the world.

Two of Washington’s largest tree fruit orchards have been taken over by financial companies, as operators reportedly began to realize the operations would need large capital infusions to renew older orchards and remain competitive.

According to the USDA, the following countries are home to the largest holders of US cropland: Canada, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.

Golden Agri-Resources’ operations in Indonesia and Liberia have generated years of controversy, including consistent and well-documented allegations of deforestation, land grabbing and human rights violations.

New Jersey’s $70 billion public-employee pension manager, the New Jersey State Investment Council, has agreed to commit $100 million in Homestead Capital’s third farmland fund.

Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide

Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.

One of Canada’s largest pension funds acquires majority stake in Australian company that owns 44,167 ha of arable land, as well as significant grain storage, fertilizer, agronomy, livestock, farming and logistics businesses.

The loan to the Canadian company operating oil palm plantations in the DR Congo is provided by provided by the CDC Group plc, the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution and KN Agri LLC.

US-headquartered Cargill has completed the acquisition of Polish food and fresh chicken firm Konspol, adding a feed mill, broiler farms, and processing plants to its Global Poultry network.