Japan will bar foreigners from acquiring farmland if their visas are set to expire soon, in a bid to prevent misuse of such land amid high prices for rice and other food items, the farm ministry said.

In Mbome Ngwandang, Cameroon, a decade-long struggle unfolds as a rural community fight to reclaim their ancestral land from agro-industrial grip.

The conflict between the European agro-industrial giant SOCAPALM and the community of Apouh à Ngog, in Cameroon, has taken a dark turn as 30 armed security forces fire tear gas against villagers determined to protect their land. Report from News Upfront.

Le programme de relance du replanting par la Socapalm, filiale camerounaise du groupe Socfin, a provoqué l’ire des villageois qui dénoncent une occupation illégitime de leurs terres. Entre mémoire coloniale, inertie administrative et luttes sociales, Apouh cristallise les tensions d’un héritage foncier jamais résolu.

The Ondo State Government has secured 10,000 hectares of land in the Southern Senatorial District for a $200 million agricultural project.

Adecoagro, which farms 210,400 hectares in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay for sugar, dairy and ethanol production, has entered into a transaction agreement with Tether Investments, part of the Tether Group, which runs the world’s largest stablecoin.

El Grupo Tether se quedará con el control de Adecoagro, la empresa agroalimenticia argentina que también opera en Brasil y Uruguay, mientras está acumulando acciones de Bioceres

Dama Jean Dare Ratolonjanahary, community activist and co-founder of the Comite de Defense des Terres, told New Lines that, “Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money”.

Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to government projects that have seized their lands, fueled violence, and stripped them of their rights.

New Agriculture manages the Lawson Grains portfolio on behalf of its investor, Canadian pension fund Alberta Investment Management Corporation, or AIMCo.

AgDevCo has officially exited its investment in Saise Farming Enterprises Limited, Zambia’s leading commercial seed potato producer.

« Pendant que nous sommes au champ le 1er Février 2025, nous avons reçu la visite des agents de sécurité et les militaires employés par Socapalm nous demandant d’arrêter tout travail car ce site est dans la concession de Socapalm. »

Abia State Governor Otti disclosed this while receiving in audience a delegation of an Israeli – Agro business Investment Company, AgroTop Israel and their development partners from Max Agro Farm.

A Nigerian-owned agribusiness firm, JR Farms, has entered a partnership with the Cross River Government to develop a 30,000-hectare coffee plantation across the 18 local government areas of the state over the next five years.

Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions.

Optimism is reverberating among workers as issues of decrepit housing and a plethora of other problems left behind by Socfinaf - a Luxembourg multinational, partly held by France's Bolloré group, that owned SRC until it divested in August 2024 - are now being addressed.

Peruvian Agriculture Minister Angel Manero on Monday announced some $24 billion in largely public-private projects to improve irrigation in the Andean nation, as the government looks to expand its farmlands by some one million hectares

The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them

The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.

Alors qu’une nouvelle campagne de replantating des palmiers à huile est annoncée, la Socapalm craint la paralysie de ses activités par une nouvelle incursion des riverains dans ses plantations. Le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime est appelé à la rescousse.

The Kenyan government is planning on leasing at least 350,000 acres of land under its control to private companies as part of plans to increase food production over the next decade.

The World Bank unit's "action plan" is an attempt to respond to its own compliance advisor's recommendations on issues ranging from land grabs to sexual exploitation on the plantation.

El grupo agroindustrial, ya acusado de acaparamiento de tierras baldías, ha logrado certificar más de 11 mil créditos de carbono en hectáreas dedicadas a la conservación de la biodiversidad en el Vichada, Colombia

Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.

Despite persistent rumors, only 4% of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan goes into agriculture. Foreign investors cannot purchase land, it can only be leased for a maximum of 25 years through open auctions.

Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.

Una investigación del Registro Agrario Nacional en México reveló que 36 personas poseen alrededor de 63 mil ejidos que abarcan más de 39 mil hectáreas, divididas en 21 mil 695 parcelas útiles para las actividades agropecuarias o forestales y 41 mil 385 predios destinados a la urbanización y construcción de vivienda.

The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.

Le village Mbonjo situé dans l’arrondissement de Fiko, département du Moungo est envahi par les plantations de la Socapalm. On retrouve le palmier à huile jusque derrière les maisons d’habitation.

ATGRO SCR already has two assets in its portfolio: an investment in pistachio plantations, with more than 3,200 hectares, and Ecosac, Peru’s second-largest exporter of seedless table grapes.