Communities living close to oil palm plantations run by PHC in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo are laying claim to just over 58,000 ha of land, and are demanding access to the company’s land titles to determine the boundaries of its concessions.

A state-owned palm oil company and an industry association have begun early work to push a vast new plantation strategy in Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands. The proposal includes aspirations for production of a form of environmentally friendly fertilizer hope that it will enable producers to apply for climate finance incentives, despite the deforestation implied in the plan.

The Egyptian Countryside Development Company and the Italian Ambassador to Egypt discussed cooperation and strategies to attract Italian investments to the lands and sectors of the 630,000 ha agricultural project.

Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

Foreign ownership of American land has gained a lot of buzz lately, but senior staff attorney and professor with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, Fran Miller says more attention should go to domestic corporate ownership.

Klimat X intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone beyond the 57,000 ha that have been secured to date to at least 100,000 hectares and will transfer the same model to other countries across Africa, starting in Ghana and Liberia

While farmers across Europe protest high costs and foreign competition, agribusiness investors continue to fortify their positions in the Spanish and European agricultural sector.

In October 2023, Arkansas became the first US state to enforce foreign farmland ownership laws when it ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres of farmland.

Mirova, affilié de Natixis Investment Managers, annonce le lancement de Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2 (MSLF2), un fonds basé sur une stratégie de gestion durable des terres en Amérique Latine, en Afrique et en Asie

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.

The Company has now completed demarcation of more than 20,000 ha of land and transferred payments to 170 smallholders under the supervision of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank

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

the story of a women group in Kalimantan called “Hurung Hapakat”, which means “Working Together”. Collectively, and against serious repression, they have reclaimed some land from oil palm plantations in order to also reclaim their food sovereignty, dignity and wisdom. And they are not alone.

Dubai Investments and E20 Investment, an Abu Dhabi-based agribusiness investment company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop 3,750 Ha of agricultural land in Angola, espeically for rice and avocados

Groups call on development banks and their governments to ensure that the mediation panel takes steps to rectify the situation.

Des organisations demandent aux banques de développement et à leurs gouvernements de veiller à ce que le groupe de médiation prenne des mesures pour rectifier la situation

There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.

A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.

PT Kenertec Power Systems, a company belonging to the Korindo group has agreed to end a long-running lawsuit intended to silence a civil society campaign to protect rainforest, in Indonesia’s Papua province, threatened by Korindo’s extensive palm oil operations after a judge in Germany set to dismiss the case.

Palm oil producer Socfin systematically excludes parts of their plantations from certification. This way, they do receive the RSPO certificate, while large parts of their plantations do not meet the environmental and social requirements, analysis by Milieudefensie shows.

One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.

For the past 13 years, 47-year-old farmer Saturday Wilson has been embroiled in a battle with a foreign oil palm plantation company over his farmland. It has placed him behind bars three times, but he still owns the land.

Philippines' Board of Investments (BOI) announced it would invite global investors in agriculture and food production sectors to invest in Bukidnon’s 40-hectare Industrial zone.

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

The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.

The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.

Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.

Le projet comprend une zone agricole de 168 000 ha où seront cultivés et transformés la luzerne, le blé, le coton, le sésame et d'autres cultures

De la Sierra Leone au Nigeria, en passant par le Cameroun, la Guinée et la Côte d'Ivoire, les communautés vivant à proximité des plantations industrielles d'huile de palme et de caoutchouc de Socfin/Bolloré se battent pour leurs droits et contre la répression.

Film by Reunion of Episcopal Conferences in West Africa shows how land grabbing and extractivism are depriving communities of their livelihood and making the fight for social justice increasingly urgent.