There is a common and well-known philosophy throughout Papua, which represents the strong bond between women and nature; “Land is Mama”. We might suspect that it sounds like a romantic attachment of the stereotype of domestic work to one gender. However, it is reflected in what these Indigenous women, who fight for their land are doing.

Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the funds go to companies like the European giant Socfin, not small Nigerian farmers

"Malgré les terres exploitables, les dizaines d’années d’expériences agricoles et les multiples avantages, Madagascar n’est pas encore le pays de l’agri-business," regrette l'Express de Madagascar

Indigenous people, peasants and indentured labour/migrant workers, forest dwellers, pastoralists and nomads, and fisherfolk are the canaries in the neo-colonial mine of capitalist accumulation.

Despite the fact that Indonesia’s deforestation rate reached a historic low in 2020, the social, cultural, and ecological wellbeing of people whose livelihoods depend on forests has continued to suffer greatly. The indigenous Marind people in Papua, for example, have seen 1.2 million hectares of their lands and forests targeted for oil palm and timber plantations as part of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate. This has led not only to food and water insecurity but also fundamental shifts in the food and eating habits of the Marind people. Why is this happening?

In Brazil, green land grabbing allows owners to legally deforest a higher percentage of their actual farmland by counting the illegally acquired land as their set-aside natural reserve.

In a letter laying out 6 clear demands, the groups call on TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025 and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.

More than 10 years since a surge in large-scale land acquisitions began, the Land Matrix Initiative has taken stock of the “global land rush” and its socio-economic and environmental impacts.

The Development Bank of Japan is the first in Japan to agree to invest in a food-focused private equity fund by backing a fund managed by Proterra Investment Advisors (Proterra Asia).

Jointly produced by UNIDROIT and IFAD, the guide is the second international instrument adopted in the area of private law and agricultural development, following the Legal Guide on Contract Farming.

An Auckland property developer is involved in a company linked to carrying out deforestation in Indonesia, where virgin rainforest is being bulldozed to grow palm oil plantations.

When palm companies arrived in Guatemala's northern lowlands, they did not evict people to plant palm, but did so strategically through "systematic dispossession".

The heavily forested Sangha region in the Republic of Congo is almost entirely occupied by three concessions, including one held by the palm oil company Eco-Oil Energie SA.

Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.

In Uganda, land grabbed by local land brokers are immediately handed over to foreign companies, which then often grow the same crops as the villagers were growing before they were evicted.

New food security alliances discussed during H.E Mariam Almheiri's visit to Ukraine following updates to legislation on foreign agricultural investment

In Liberia, a unit of the world’s second-largest palm oil company has admitted to destroying forests and violating the rights of indigenous people. Yet its parent is among the industry’s leaders in investor ratings for ESG policies.

With the pandemic striking higher in Uganda, poor families continue to be forced off their land by their government and investors despite several directives halting evictions during the COVID period.

An open letter has been sent to the AfDB and Nordic Development Fund, calling on them to take immediate action to address reprisals against a community in Uganda impacted by the Wadelai irrigation project.

Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance', including Witness-Radio, which has been defending several communities whose lands have been grabbed by foreign agribusinesses.

Research by Sarawak Report has revealed unreported ownership by the Sultan of Selangor of a key company behind the state’s hugely controversial decision to de-gazette a swathe of protected forest at Kuala Langat.

Exxess Group will invest US$14.2 million in large scale cassava farming and processing on 3,600 hectares of farmland in Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria.

Desde hace dos décadas, la Península de Yucatán se ha convertido en un lugar atractivo para inversiones públicas y privadas que han provocado cambios de uso de suelo y procesos de privatización de las tierras ejidales.

Nordic Aqua Partners has increased planned production at its land-based salmon farming facility in China to 20,000 tonnes.

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his government has allocated over 57,000 hectares of land to smallholders and large-scale oil palm plantation investors in four local government areas of the state.

Investment platform iPartners is pushing into the agricultural sector, launching a $20 million fund to acquire Australian farmland for protected koala habitat to generate returns through its use as a biodiversity offset.

New analysis from community exercises indicate palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia structurally fails to comply with obligations and commitments from the MOUs signed in 2014 with affected communities. T

In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.

In the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe,” agriculture has been dominated by oligarchs and multinational corporations since the privatization of state-owned land following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Will this change, now that a controversial law to create a land market entered into effect on July 1, 2021?

Farmland grabs by US companies and pension funds are being ignored as appropriators prioritise keeping Chinese interests in check, critics say