For decades, communities around the Socfin rubber and oil palm plantations have railed against the company's abusive practices, which range from land grabs to sexual violence. Now their complaints have been vindicated by a surprising source: Socfin's own paid consultants, who have concluded that most of the complaints are at least partially founded, and that the vast majority of the abuses are the responsibility of the corporation.

Several companies have already been allocated land on the farm, including Nyumba Group and Selu Farm Limited, each receiving 5,000 acres. Other partners include Bayer Crop Science, Yara, and Irrico International.

The Loudima agri-hub, with a capacity of 30,000 tons per year of vegetable oil, will be supplied by oil crops grown on degraded and underutilized land or through intercropping systems, as part of an innovative regenerative agriculture project developed in collaboration with local stakeholders.

During a field trip to the site on June 5, 2025, led by SYNAPARCAM, villagers expressed fear of not being able to feed their families or having a small place to build a house as all remaining lands are being occupied with palm trees.

Duxton Capital is the agriculture, wine and pubs empire founded by former Deutsche Asset Management heavyweight Ed Peter and backed by prominent investors including the billionaire Oatley family, hedge fund manager Richard Magides and Phil King’s Regal Partners.

Hundreds of Cambodian families took on Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol—supplier to global brands such as Nestlé, Mars and Coca-Cola—and reached a financial settlement after seventeen years of sustained advocacy and, ultimately, bringing a class action against the company in Southeast Asia’s first-ever transboundary human rights litigation.

U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military forces to suppress dissent, threatening more than 50,000 Indigenous people.

Les 1 700 ha mis en vente par le gouvernement centrafricain étaient des plantations agricoles

According to the government, this program, enabled by a presidential decree, makes 1,700 hectares — once agricultural plantations — available for concession via a blockchain platform.

Koalisi masyarakat sipil dan masyarakat adat yang terdampak Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke, Papua Selatan, menyanggah tanggapan pemerintah Indonesia terhadap sembilan Pelapor Khusus Perserikatan Bangsa-bangsa (UN Special Procedure Mechanism) ihwal pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) dan dampak lingkungan proyek tersebut.

A Riyadh private equity firm established by a Saudi royal is joining forces with Canadian asset manager Cordiant Group to set up two funds worth $5 billion for agricultural investments across the GCC and globally.

En un raro acuerdo, el gobierno cubano entrega el control de 1.000 hectáreas a una empresa extranjera. La empresa asiática Agri VMA cultivará arroz por tres años vendiendo su paquete tecnológico, como semillas híbridas y pesticidas, mientras Cuba obtiene ingresos por el alquiler de la tierra y la sustitución de importaciones.

Beijing AgriFam Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of China's CITIC Group, has formally committed USD $73 million towards the development of advanced feedlot infrastructure in Botswana.

In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

Sembilan pelapor khusus PBB telah mengirimkan surat kepada pemerintah Indonesia dan perusahaan PT Global Papua Abadi meminta tanggapan dari kedua pihak atas dugaan pelanggaran HAM dan lingkungan hidup dalam pengembangan perkebunan pangan dan energi skala luas melalui Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke. Lebih dari 630.000 ha akan diubah jadi lahan tebu, pengolahan gula dan produksi bioetanol dan lebih dari satu juta hektare akan dijadikan lahan sawah dan perkebunan tanaman lainnya.

The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) has raised an alarm over the alleged illegal occupation of 6,000 hectares of farmland in Ipao-Ekiti by the Agbeyewa Group of Companies, accusing the Ekiti State Government of fraudulently reallocating land that the association legally acquired.

La Synaparcam, une association de riverains des plantations Socapalm au Cameroun, réagit à une réponse de la Socfin publiée par la Business and Human Rights Research Centre.

El Boletín Nyéléni 60 llama la atención para una nueva oleada de «acaparamientos verdes» impulsada por los mercados del carbono y la biodiversidad - cerca del 20% de los acuerdos actuales de compraventa de tierras a gran escala están vinculados a la bioeconomía. También destaca el programa de FMI de privatización de tierras públicas en Siri Lanka.

A civil society group closely monitoring developments at the 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation welcomed the call for a temporary suspension of its activities.

Swiss-based Harvest Group SA, through its subsidiary Harvest Agro Holding, has announced an investment of half a billion dollars to develop as much as 300,000 hectares of pastureland across rural Kazakhstan into productive agricultural land

Officials of UK-based Rainforest Builder say they will restore 2,000 hectares of degraded forest—double what they planted last year.

Canarias negocia un acuerdo con la multinacional emiratí Al Dahra Agricultural Company, que según organizaciones "Se trata de un modelo que entrega tierras y agua, escasas y disputadas en un archipélago que ya depende de 90% de importaciones"

La lutte contre le changement climatique et les politiques de transition énergétique génèrent, paradoxalement, de nouvelles formes d’accaparement de terres.

Derrière des achats discrets, parfois opaques, se joue un bouleversement majeur du modèle agricole breton.

A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.

Groups say the agropole project is not in line with food sovereignty and call for it to be halted, for the memorandum of understanding with Israeli LR Group to be cancelled and for the law on agricultural aggregation to be repealed.

African Food Security, a New York-based agribusiness firm, has launched a large-scale farming initiative in Somaliland and says it has commenced feasibility studies and soil assessments.

Le gouvernement congolais a annoncé la fin du contrat emphytéotique de cession des terres agricoles au Rwanda qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. "L’accord ne concernait pas une société rwandaise, mais une société de droit congolais dont les actionnaires sont basés au Rwanda", un représentant du gouvernment a précisé

Le gouvernement malgache a signé un memorandum avec le groupe israélien LR Group prévoyant la création d’un agropole de 10.000 ha pour la culture de riz, de maïs et de soja. Des organisations de la société civile demandent son annulation, ainsi que l’abrogation de la loi sur l’agrégation agricole.