China has urged local authorities to support qualified domestic firms to “go out,” and build hog farming bases in countries where pig products are eligible to be exported back to China.

A little-known company, Camvert, intends to convert 60,000 hectares of forest adjacent to Campo Ma’an National Park into oil palm plantations.

A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, is engaged in land grabbing, deforestation and killing of endangered elephant calf within its plantation

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Nearly 88 percent of Gabon is covered in forests, but NGOs fear that the development of oil palm plantations threatens this viable resource. Local communities accuse SOTRADER, a public-private partnership between the government and the multinational Olam, of land grabbing.

Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests.

In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.

Investigations carried out by RFUK and its partner organisations find that three plantations in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are responsible for destroying over 20,000 ha of forest, an area twice the size of Paris.

Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.

Kilombero Plantation Ltd, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd. and “best in class” player in the field of socially responsible ag investments in Africa, is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions.

Locked within the legislation is a flaw for those living on the quarter of the country’s land set aside for concessions: it is not retroactive. A difficult truth that is only just beginning to permeate thousands of villages in Liberia.

ESCR-Net has written to President Bio about the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and Users Association in connection with industrial scale palm oil operations by Société Financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin Group).

Elite Foods CEO says his South African company wishes to take advantage of the Northern Province's huge expanse of water and land.

Sierra Leone Land Rights Defenders say SOCFIN's land acquisition in Malen has resulted in serious conflict with local landowners, who face intimidation and harassment for defending their land rights and challenging the company.

The South African state-workers’ pension funds and black-economic empowerment group Pelo Agricultural Ventures take a majority stake in Karan Beef (Pty) Ltd., owner of the continent’s largest cattle feedlot.

New report from Oakland Institute, Indonesia: The World Bank’s Failed East Asian Miracle details how Bank-backed policy reforms have led to the displacement, criminalization, and even murder of smallholder farmers and indigenous defenders to make way for mega-agricultural projects.

Liberia has passed a landmark law that will help communities fight foreign land grabs by giving them ownership of ancestral territory,

The Government of Bangladesh has decided to acquire land in Sudan in a bid to explore commercial farming opportunities in the Northeast African country.

The employees accuse CFC Stanbic of demanding more money than it lent to Karuturi, saying the South African lender is responsible for the poverty that struck their families since Karuturi was placed under receivership, 3 years ago.

The African Development Bank is nevertheless accelerating a push for projects such as the failed 80,000 hectare Bukanga Lonzo project in the DRC, for which it provided about $1 million to finance a feasibility study.

Karuturi Agro Products PLC says it is about to recommence the troubled commercial farms it was forced to abandon in Ethiopia, last year, with a new 25,000 hectare lease.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority buys a 3,500 ha farm in Nasarawa State through a joint venture with UFF Agri Investment, a South African company owned by Old Mutual Property

From rapes, forced body searches and searches of private spaces, to the risk of losing their lives: this article calls on us not to be accomplices to the violence women living around industrial tree plantations in Cameroon suffer.

Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.

Sime Darby Plantation has planted only 10,000 hectares in Liberia and has not laid a seed in two years, stalled by uncertainties over new environmental standards.

A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.

Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has lamented over the plight of peasant farmers who have lost their lands and thrown into abject poverty as a result of land grabbing.

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi tells Reuters that the governments of India and Ethiopia are working to “amicably resolve outstanding Karuturi issues”.

Brazilian president Michel Temer has now twice survived votes to initiate impeachment against him. Temer did so by selling out the environment, allowing agribusiness to rent indigenous lands.

The African Land Policy Centre will serve as a means to strengthen and sustain Africa’s capacity to coordinate Member States and other actors in the implementation of the AU Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges