So far, the government has made available 5,000 hectares of land at Chimwamkango estate for value crops and 5,000 hectares of land at Dwambazi estate in Nkhotakota for cattle raising

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.

In the palm oil industry, image control is a means of survival, and what is said can be even more nefarious than what is done.

The companies that sell oil palm to major firms like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's and Mondelēz are depriving indigenous communities of potentially millions of dollars of income, a joint BBC investigation has found.

President Museveni has promised to compensate residents who were evicted after he donated lands in 2017 to Kiryandongo Sugar Factory, Agilis Partners of the US, and Great Season to pave way for large-scale farming.

Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.

Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.

New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.

The oil palm plantation company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of military forces for the protection of its plantations and environs.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.

Arla Foods, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in Europe, has inked a joint-venture partnership with consumer goods company, Tolaram Group, for establishment of a 200 hectare dairy farm in Kaduna State.

The minister said the MoU requires all parties to work together to build 10,000 Agriculture 4.0 greenhouses over the next 10 years that are to produce at least 400 tonnes of crops a year.

The government in February last year planned to evict 12,000 villagers after it set aside 12 940 hectares of communal land in their area for lucerne project by Dendairy.

Faced with multiple challenges Brazil's landless workers' movement (MST) has adopted new political lines and more occupations to fight the current crisis are now planned.

The uncertain conditions left behind by Sime Darby and the apparent failure of the government to intervene has revived the activism instinct of a selfless champion of community rights.

In September 2021, the signature of the final agreements between representatives from indigenous communities in Busra commune and the rubber company Socfin Cambodia concluded a five-year mediation process that started in 2016.

In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.

Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership

In Liberia, a unit of the world’s second-largest palm oil company has admitted to destroying forests and violating the rights of indigenous people. Yet its parent is among the industry’s leaders in investor ratings for ESG policies.

An open letter has been sent to the AfDB and Nordic Development Fund, calling on them to take immediate action to address reprisals against a community in Uganda impacted by the Wadelai irrigation project.

Located in Kaduna State, the 200-hectare farm, scheduled to open in 2022, will have housing for 400 dairy cows, modern milking parlors and technology, grass lands and living facilities for 25 employees.

Land conflicts in Brazil broke a record in 2020 for the second year running, reaching 1,576 cases — the highest since 1985, according to the Pastoral Land Commission.

Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.

The TIAA-Divest! campaign demands that TIAA "stop land grabs," as TIAA is one of the two largest foreign buyers in Brazil and many of its landholdings lead to displacement of local communities and deforestation.

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.

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

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez had advised lawmakers against allowing foreign ownership of land, an 'emotional' issue for Filipinos

The World Bank and the European Union stand ready to provide technical support and other resources for Ukraine to successfully implement farmland reform, says World Bank economist.

Salala Rubber Corporation holds a concession of over 40,000 hectares in central Liberia, but has often been accused of land grabbing and destruction of the locals’ farms

Mustapha Foboi made history and brought the Government of Liberia to its knees when he took on the world largest oil palm conglomerate, Sime Darby.