SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.

India’s growing embrace of industrial palm oil threatens the nation’s rich diversity of oilseed crops. What are the risks for farmers, public health and the environment?

Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Local farmers say that their wells have dried up since since an Emirati alfalfa farm moved in.

L'Association des Femmes Riveraines d'Edéa (AFRISE), au Caméroun, a recueilli 316 signatures de soutien dans sa lutte face à la Socapalm, du groupe Socfin

Bloomberg exposé on Frank Timis' plan to turn Les Fermes de la Teranga (ex-Senhuile) into a major source of animal feed for the Gulf States and the implications for Dakar's water supply

The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.

The increased need for cropland would result in “a race for prime spots”, especially in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Investigation uncovers how the Okumu Oil Palm Company PLC's craze for rubber and palm kernel has been linked to displacement of indigenous people, deforestation, and rights violations in Nigeria.

Vice President Kashim Shettima stated that Nigeria's “70 million hectares of under-utilised arable land”, which is “75 per cent of the country’s total land mass,” makes it best placed for such investment.

Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 65 hectares of farmland in the US state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned.

On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs in organizing an International Conference on Global Land Grabbing on 19-21 March 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

When Dominion Farms Ltd pulled out from the Yala Swamp, residents hoped to get their lands and water back. But the lands were signed over to a bank that then transferred it to a sugar cane plantation company on a 99 year lease.

Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.

For villagers whose ancestral lands have been lost to the expansive reach of Socapalm’s plantations, the passage of time has failed to bring about the restitution they so desperately seek.

Mitsui & Co. has invested US$360 million through a Singapore-based holding company in Ecuador-based Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila (IPSP), which controls 18,000 hectares of farming ponds.

The proposed joint venture would bring together irrigation techniques and integrating digital tools into farming and landscaping projects.

The Farmland for Farmers Act, in banning corporations from purchasing farmland, improves the chances for beginning, small-scale producers to access land and produce food for themselves and their communities.

Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion investment manager of TIAA, has expanded its partnership with a global fintech platform to offer investors and financial advisors the opportunity to allocate to global agricultural assets.

Indonesia’s decision to revoke plantation permits across the country is marred with irregularities including companies continuing to operate or engage in conflicts with Indigenous and local communities.

Fighting between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces threatens Gulf states which have invested tens of billions of dollars in Sudan for the production of crops and animal fodder, in addition to livestock rearing, for their own food security

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Un informe de Global Witness dice que instituciones financian a sabiendas a comerciantes de carne vacuna acusados de tener vínculos con la deforestación en el Gran Chaco.

The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

Across the region, people have been harassed, threatened and criminally charged in retaliation for opposing land and water grabs linked to mining, dams and industrial agriculture, cementing the region’s ranking as one of the world’s most perilous for environmental and land rights defenders.

As Mennonite colonies continue to expand, so too are their massive crop fields, which are putting pressure on Santa Cruz’s Indigenous Territories and other protected areas.

Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.