Emmanuel Elong, the farmer who came from Cameroon specifically for the lawsuit filed by the Bolloré group against France 2, tells of the psychological pressure you are under when you confront a major group in Africa.

In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.

Harvard bet the farm in Brazil and lost. The university, which invested at least $150 million in a mega farm project in country's northeast, is now exiting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Fonterra's owners are worried about the cooperative's $800m investment in establishing dairy farms in China, which yielded only $1m in earnings last year, despite a $38m subsidy of their operations by Fonterra's China ingredients division.

The slaughter of people defending their land or environment continued unabated in 2017, with new research showing almost four people a week were killed worldwide in struggles against mines, plantations, poachers and infrastructure projects.

Starting in September, holders of customary land rights in South Sorong Regency, West Papua province, have staged a "customary law blockade" to areas of PT Permata Putera Mandiri (PT PPM)oil palm plantation. The blockade leads to violence by special police brigade (Brimob) to the villagers.

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.

A busload of indigenous leaders highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in Bonn. They demand respect for land rights, decriminalisation of indigenous activists, and free, prior and informed consent before any development by outsiders.

The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, shines new light on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. The stories expose the role of collusion between palm oil firms and politicians.

The group, backed by European development banks, revealed it had sold 90% of its Zampalm operation to the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia, a state-backed fund, for $16m

There were dramatic scenes outside Phnom Penh court this week as one of Cambodia’s most iconic activists, Tep Vanny lost an appeal to overturn her two and a half year jail sentence.

Indian company Estina was given a free 99-year lease to a 4,400 ha farm, as well as a guaranteed R114-million per year for the construction and running of the farm, but cash was siphoned out of the country as quickly as the South African public paid it over.

The flood of investment over the last several years means that agricultural land itself is being treated more and more like a profitable financial asset, instead of a productive natural resource.

As the farmland REIT sector grows, Sustainable Economies Law Center is busy researching and piloting alternative models of farmland ownership that prioritize racial equity, ecological sustainability, and long-term stewardship.

Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture has called for a review of the flawed 50 year land lease agreement signed in 2011 between land owners and Socfin Agriculture Company

A new study comparing forest loss and cocaine busts supports the theory that drug money is being laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America.

A coalition of environmental, human rights and family farm organizations delivered a letter with over 100,000 signatures to pension fund management company TIAA, expressing concerns over the company’s investments in farmland and palm oil.

The fate of the Multi-billion shilling Yala swamp Dominion Farms project in Siaya hangs in the balance following a fallout between an America investor and Nyanza politicians.

Peasants in Honduras have sued a branch of the World Bank over its financing of the corporation Dinant, which has vast palm oil plantations in Bajo Aguán valley

Siaya MCAs have now vowed to kick out American investor and Dominion farms CEO Calvin Burgess from Yala swamp, accusing him of belittling the community by peddling falsehoods.

The notorious reluctance of Australian superannuation funds to invest in agriculture because of perceptions it is too risky, volatile and low-return may be slowly changing, according to key farm and food industry players.

A worrying number of land grabs in developing countries involve European companies or are backed by European money – from banks, equity and pension funds, for instance.

Opposition parties criticized the government for not revealing documents related to the expenditure of $11 million on a farm to breed sheep in Saudi Arabia for the interest of a Saudi businessman who owns a sheep farm in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

This report describes the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It covers the period of July 2014 to June 2015 when Addax was still operational as well as the period of July 2015 to June 2016 when Addax scaled down its operations.

"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International.

Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.

The Bank says the move will help alleviate poverty in the Southeast Asian country, but land rights activists expressed disappointment over the decision.

Thousands of people are being disenfranchised, evicted and deprived of their livelihoods near Kade, Eastern Region of Ghana, by the Belgian oil palm plantation company GOPDC.

Protest in Kazakh city of Atyrau comes as public fears grow that changes in the Land Code could allow sales of land to foreigners, though the government has said this will not happen.

We believe that there's plenty of land in Africa and Africa will feed the world, says Nuradin Osman, AGCO managing director for Africa and Middle East.