A new report from the Oakland Institute, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.

But more than four years after signing a deal, five communities allege they were cheated. They say the company still owes them, and they demand retroactive payment.

Grand Cape Mount County Senator Varney Sherman says Mano Palm is reneging on the US$12M transferred for Sime Darby’s social obligations to Grand Cape Mount

Villagers in Chilonga in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province are being kicked off their land, paving way for growing lucerne grass

Producers say their supply chains are green and sustainable, but prosecutors cite a long record of land grabbing, deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations.

The deal size reflects the growing demand for farmland investments, as investors seek alternative assets amid heightened market volatility, fears of inflation, an emphasis on sustainability, and more.

A group of Civil society groups in Zimbabwe has told the government to immediately withdraw the Statutory Instrument that legalises the eviction of Chilonga people in Chiredzi to grow feed for a dairy company.

Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of palm oil and Papua is the new frontier. Kinggo indigenous group that owns the customary forest in Boven Digul Regency, Papua is fighting to protect their land against subsidiary of Korean palm oil giant, the Korindo Group.

Grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land.

The joint venture by Wilmar, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Africa Ltd is establishing its second palm oil project on Buvuma Island and targets to have 1,000ha under trees this year and 5,000ha in four years

Walter Global Asset Management says farmland is increasingly attractive to institutional and private investors, which puts Bonnefield in a strong position when it comes to growing its portfolio of Canadian farmland

An educational resource from Oakland Institute debunks myths used for privatizing land around the world, while providing facts on how customary tenure systems are critical to livelihoods and ensuring sustainable development.

One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.

Laos reveals Chinese investor requests 3,200-4,800 ha of land concessions to grow durian for export to the China.

The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.

The company is also found to have violated the land and cultural rights of local communities, including the right to free prior and informed consent and social requirements on basic needs and grievance and remedy.

Land conflicts in Indonesia escalated in 2020, with palm oil and pulpwood companies taking advantage of movement restrictions to expand aggressively, according to a new report.

The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.

Leader of the Indigenous community Uruwaarige Wannila Aththo filed a writ application with the Court of Appeal seeking an order to prevent the allocation of indigenous community lands for maize cultivation for leading companies.

CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 to invest in agribusiness across Sub-Saharan Africa.

CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO invest in Phatisa's second African agribusiness fund, even as Phatisa's first DFI-supported fund, the African Agriculture Fund, remains embroiled in land conflicts.

AgriNurture Inc has secured a partnership with Unified Bagobo-Tagabawa Tribe to plant rice and corn in up to 38,000 hectares of ancestral lands in Davao, the Philippines

Rural sociologist Saker El Nour discusses the complex power dynamics between main actors within land reclamation projects in Egypt.

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 created more unfavorable conditions for defenders of the land and territory due to the creation of emergency decrees and the increased isolation of communities from society.

About 66 per cent of conflicts related to palm oil in West Kalimantan in the last two decades have yet to be resolved, according to a report recently issued by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).

A study published by FIAN International ‘Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights’ reveals how digital technologies have become new tools for land grabs and sources of profits.

A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.

Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.

Members of the Auyu tribe of Papua, Indonesia, are demanding a halt to the operations of palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari (IAL), which appears to be gearing up to clear their ancestral forests. IAL’s concession is part of the Tanah Merah megaproject that is already dogged by allegations that key operating permits have been falsified.

A fund that supports Saudi agriculture investments abroad on the condition that at least 50 per cent of the project’s crops be exported to the Kingdom has tripled the value of its loans since 2016.