Uganda still grapples with mass forced evictions being aided by international development financiers that are hosted and protected by big nations.

The United Arab Emirates has expressed interest in investing in Indonesia's farming sector, specifically sugarcane plantations, says the secretary general of the Agriculture Ministry.

Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. pension funds and an Argentine agribusiness giant may be linked to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.

Villagers in Kilwa were encouraged to give up their lands for an investment in large-scale farms to produce cassava for export, but as time passed on, they realised the much touted investor was but a ghost.

New factsheet from ActNowPNG breaks down 6 myths used to justify the privatisation of customary land, showing how it's not about development but about profits for corporations

Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.

Why do peasant farmers lose out when they produce for the palm oil industry? A publication based on experiences from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

In Japan, concerns are growing that emerging and developing countries, as sources of supply for food and natural resources, will fall under China's sway.

Investigation into the controversial palm oil sector in Liberia, the role of Dutch finance and impacts on local communities

The Louisiana State University's AgCenter has signed a collaborative agreement with African Agriculture Inc. to work at the NY-based company's 62,000-acre "farming complex" in St. Louis, Senegal

In this short paper, we discuss the various ways in which scholars and activists of the global food economy/regime/system examine the relationships among producers, the state and capital.

While the governments chant the mantra of "leaving no one behind", it is ironic that they are abetting corporate grabbing of land and resources, which is pushing farmers out of agriculture.

Flooded farms, land grabs, and production costs are driving Lao villagers from their land to seek work in the cities.

Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited has undertaken to invest US$35 million in the next 10 years into a 2 700 hectare citrus plantation as it seeks to increase production and valued addition at its Beitbridge Juice Processing Plant.

Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil certificate awarded to Socfin’s subsidiary company SAFACAM in Cameroon on 30 December 2020

New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone

The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits

For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.

After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.

Located in Kaduna State, the 200-hectare farm, scheduled to open in 2022, will have housing for 400 dairy cows, modern milking parlors and technology, grass lands and living facilities for 25 employees.

Two-thirds of polled Ukrainians are against opening up the country's farmland to foreigners

Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek calls for an end to neoliberal agricultural laws and corporate control of the food and agriculture sector, including an end to local and foreign private investments in the dairy and livestock sector.

Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.

Local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province has revoked permits for 12 oil palm concessions that cover an area twice the size of Los Angeles after a recent audit of palm oil concession holders found widespread administrative and legal violations. Activists have called on the government to follow up on the revocation by granting Indigenous peoples access to the rescinded concessions instead of granting new licenses to other investors.

“GVL came here and told our people to give it land so it can provide citizens with jobs and development. Now, we have given GVL land and the jobs have been taken away from us"

The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The UN pays Bolloré over US$50 million every year for logistics and other services. While Bolloré Group through SOCFIN has been accused of land grabbing and widespread human rights violations for years.

Rural 'vulture' funds have been attracted by rising profits in land where prices rose by 15% last year, and the biggest losers in this game of investment chess are young and active farmers looking for more land.

Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.

New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.