The UN counted 355 SLAPPs from the business community between 2015 and 2022. Individuals and organisations that expose human rights violations, abuses in mining, agriculture and forestry and on palm oil plantations are most often affected.

The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers of Nyamuntende Village in Kiryandongo district for allegedly threatening violence against land grabbers’ laborers is set to begin tomorrow.

Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.

Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.

Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields

Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the sale of more than 100 hectares of Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha by Shalimar Flowers.

Despite objections by numerous community organisations and representatives, Siaya Kenya's National Land Commission will provide Lake Agro Ltd 17,250 acres of land at the Yala Swamp for agricultural use in a 66 years lease agreement.

Compagnie Fruitier in Ghana hopes that issues of land allocation to local farmers would be expedited to avoid the problem of encroachment on lands already allocated.

On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

A potential large-scale rice farming company in the Philippines will be sending a delegation to Papua New Guinea in November this year to evaluate the country’s potential for large-scale rice farming in Central Province.

The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.

Scotland’s richest man, an oil giant, an earl, and private equity and property firms are among those developing carbon credit projects that critics say are pushing up land prices and allowing companies to “greenwash” their image.

There will be plenty more scuffles between local populations and new global landlords. But, according to the Financial Times, such fights are unlikely to stem the tide of land investment.

The undertaking will be carried out alongside PSP Investments’ local operating partners on more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of farmland and timberland.

A major loan was approved this week for an industrial food producer operating in Brazil, despite concerns that the money would ultimately fund activities that contribute to deforestation.

African Africulture Inc takes control of 20,000 ha previously granted to Senhuile in Senegal plus 2.2 million hectares in Niger

The National Land Commission team will hold public hearings for three days in Siaya on plans to allocate the Yala Swamp to a private investor.

Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.

A legal battle launched by several organisations to force Bolloré to remedy land and other rights violations around the Socapalm plantations in Cameroon moves ahead as the appeal judge rules again in favour of the plaintiffs.

The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.

A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in

The 16 ha greenhouse is a joint venture between the Israeli company, Inosselia Agro, and the government of Malawi established in 2019 that supplies vegetables to supermarkets.

Socfin says the result of clauses limiting lease agreements to an initial max of 5000 hectares, and for a period not exceeding 21 years for non-citizens, would be no more investment in rubber, forestry, palm oil or other plantation crops

The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.

An area nearly the size of Belgium will be cleared in Indonesia’s Papua province to grow food crops under a government program. A new analysis shows that this conversion alone could result in the release of 616 million metric tons of greenhouse gases — a third of what Indonesia as a whole currently emits in a year.

Despite a federal law requiring foreign transactions of agricultural land be reported to and recorded by the government, the US Department of Agriculture’s database appears to be missing significant acres of land.

The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.

In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.