The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a fourth major Aussie cropping aggregation.

The Ekiti State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has pledged to enhance its collaboration with Cavista Holdings and Agbeyewa Farms to fulfill its core mandate of securing critical national assets and infrastructure, including farmland security through the Agro Rangers Squad.

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

A Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of sustainable and modern agriculture projects in Ghana was signed at the Residence of the Italian Ambassador in Accra, by the Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Republic of Ghana, Eric Opoku, the Managing Director of BF International Best Fields Best Food Limited, Federico Vecchioni, and the President of BF Ghana Ltd, Georges Mikhael.

Au Sénégal, le groupe agro-industriel italien Bonifiche Ferraresi, a signé un protocole d’accord avec le maire de la commune de Kaour pour la mise en œuvre d’un projet agroindustriel sur 10 000 hectares

Droit de réponse à la suite du point presse du Préfet de la Sanaga Maritime

Peasant unions, including the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), have announced a nationwide protest on April 13 to oppose the so-called Green Pakistan Initiative, which they claim is a front to open up the country’s agriculture sector to corporate farming.

Selon une déclaration officielle transmise à Camer Press Agency, l’entreprise se dit « attachée à un dialogue constructif avec les communautés riveraines et les autorités locales, dans le respect du cadre légal et des droits de chacun »

La principale revendication porte sur la restitution d’un espace vital estimé à environ 3000 hectares.

The joint initiative with UK-based Valor Carbon aims to plant over 10 million trees across 25,000 hectares in the Issyk-Kul region, with the potential to attract up to $180 million in climate financing.

Authorities in Attapeu province have awarded concessions to three Lao companies, enabling them to grow durian on hundreds of hectares of land as part of the government’s broader effort to boost the cultivation of fruit on a commercial basis.

Witness Radio has petitioned the Buganda Land Board (BLB) to investigate and address concerns regarding forced land evictions of Kabaka’s subjects and tenants of BLB, whose land is targeted for oil palm expansion in Buvuma district.

The Liberian government has taken legal action against former union leaders of the Salala Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia following violent protests at the Salala Rubber Corporation in Margibi County on June 27, 2024.

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.

The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”

A venture backed by Canada’s PSP Investments has bought out its co-investors in the Kooba aggregation in New South Wales, which has 30,000 hectares of cotton, crops and livestock and 1,400 hectares of almond orchards.

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.

Cameroonian villagers protesting on March 25 against plantation company Socapalm's replanting of oil palm trees on disputed land were dispersed with tear gas by local law enforcement.

En République du Congo, le groupe agro-industriel italien Bonifiche Ferraresi vient de conclure un accord avec le gouvernement pour le développement d’un domaine agricole de 10 000 hectares basé à Dolisie.

Le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime accuse M. Ditope Mercure, chef de 3e degré du village Apouh, d’être à l’origine de la contestation et de bloquer volontairement le dialogue. Sa Majesté Ditope rejète ces accusations.

On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton project, Uzbekistan. In 2019, a presidential decree allocating 50,000 hectares of land to Indorama Agro resulted in the arbitrary termination of thousands of farmers’ land leases without free, prior and informed consent.

Advocates for 22 communities affected by the problems told ICIJ the sale allowed Socfin and the IFC to minimize their responsibility for addressing harm done to workers and plantation residents, adding to longstanding criticisms of the World Bank's handling of damages caused by projects it finances.

More than 2,000 farmers from Obi and Awe Local Government Areas in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, have staged a peaceful protest against the alleged seizure of their farmlands by a traditional ruler for a government-backed rice project.

Témoignage d'un petit agriculteur sur le conflit qui oppose des villageois d'Apouh À Ngog, qui réclament un espace vital, à la Socapalm

On March 25, 2025, the people living in Apouh A Ngog village in the Litoral Region of Cameroon witnessed a brutal and traumatising act of intimidation : heavily armed government forces, including heavily armed soldiers and gendarmes arriving to supervise the replanting of oil palms by staff of SOCAPALM, part of the multinational corporation Socfin Bolloré.

Le 25 mars 2025, les habitants du village Apouh À Ngog, dans la région du Littoral au Cameroun, ont été témoin d'un acte brutal et traumatisant: des forces gouvernementales composées de militaires, de gendarmes lourdement armées ont investi le village pour encadrer le replanting du palmier à huile par le personnel de la SOCAPALM, partie de la multinational Socfin Bolloré.

El periodista Jack Thompson investiga el caso del fallido proyecto agrícola de African Agriculture en Niéti Yone, Senegal, una historia que comienza con ambición, promesas de empleo y desarrollo... y acaba con deudas, tierras improductivas y una comunidad fracturada.

The UAE-supported project aims to grow a specially bred sugarcane variety for aviation biofuel on 70,000 hectares of farmland in Brazil

Italian agro-industrial group BF Spa and the Government of the Republic of Congo have signed a framework agreement that provides for the creation of an agro-industrial project on a surface of 10 thousand hectares in the Dolisie area, specifically in Malolo.

Part asset manager, part farmland operator, The Land Group acquires property and manages it with a variety of regenerative practices for institutional, family office, and fund investors. The firm currently has 40,000 hectares under operation in Uruguay and Paraguay.