Veripath Farmland Partners has brought its total acreage under management to approximately 120,000 acres through its latest acquisition of 1,246 acres of farmland in the Province of Alberta.

Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.

Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.

La société Sequoia réclame avoir obtenu 60,000 hectares pour un projet de monoculture d’eucalyptus dans la province du Haut-Ogooué, au Gabon.

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?

The mediation process is set to collapse, unless strong measures are taken to ensure adequate, safe, independent and truly inclusive participation of the local communities and their representatives.

La médiation risque d’être un échec si des mesures fortes ne sont pas prises pour assurer un processus adéquat, sur, indépendant et réellement inclusif pour les communautés locales et de leurs représentants.

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

Équiterre, la Fédération de la relève agricole du Québec, la Coopérative pour l’Agriculture de Proximité Écologique, Protec-Terre et Vivre en Ville joignent leur forces et lancent l’Alliance SaluTERRE dans le but de protéger les terres et les activités agricoles du Québec des nombreuses menaces qui mettent en danger notre autonomie et notre sécurité alimentaires

For seven months, the leader of the Awyu Tribe indigenous people, underwent a trial process under lawsuit case regarding Environmental Feasibility of the Oil Palm Plantation Development Plan in an area of 36,096.4 hectares by PT Indo Asiana Lestari (PT IAL), which is located in the customary territory of the Awyu Tribe, South Papua Province, Indonesia.

Ecologistas en Acción acompaña una gira de cinco activistas de Indonesia y Brasil que viajan al Estado español para denunciar la deforestación tropical y la vulneración de derechos humanos causada por la producción masiva de palma y soja en sus respectivos países.

Elite Agro Projects plans to establish a wheat farm in Ethiopia, where it already operates a flower farm.

Menacés, volés et extorqués par les groupes criminels - y compris pour vol de terres - les agriculteurs affichent un ras-le-bol.

Over the last three years, Australia’s agriculture and farmland have been in high demand for institutional investors in Canada searching for diversification and sustainability.

A new report explains how Harvard University, pension fund TIAA and multinational agribusiness corporation Bunge are enabling illegal land grabs and increasing deforestation for soy production

The Swiss association of the largest public pension funds, has decided to exclude shares in the French group Bolloré SE. The exclusion is justified by “potential human rights violations in Liberia, Cambodia and Sierra Leone”.

L'association suisse des plus grandes caisses publiques de retraite a décidé d'exclure les actions du groupe français Bolloré SE "à la suite de violations potentielles des droits humains en Libéria, Cambodge et Sierra Leone".

Corporate and property records show a winding path of ownership for the lands of the Al Dahra farm that leads from the city of Phoenix to an investment fund that includes the Arizona State Retirement System.

Socfin agrees that more needs to be done to further "reduce" communities' "concerns" and that some serious issues need immediate action

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.

Pension funds, Wall Street investors, and other well-funded entities and individuals looking for good investments have been buying up domestic farmland. Their goal is profit, not food production or stewardship of natural resources.

L'Alliance informelle des communautés victimes d'investissements fonciers irresponsables s'est réunie pour un camp d'activités en Ouganda. Compte rendu de Witness Radio.

At a week-long camp held in Kassanda district, members of the informal Alliance for victim communities of irresponsible land investments have resolved to use any available opportunity at their disposal to re-build a new life.

An Indian agri-investment platform says it has raised ₹70 crore from over 2,000 investors and deployed this over an area of more than 3,000 acres of land. Currently, have subscribed to this platform

A delegation of leaders of communities in Southern Piauí presents letter to state authorities asking for action against the expansion of monocropping of agricultural commodities and land speculation.

Iowa farmers are bidding not only against neighbors, but out-of-state investors including professional athletes, well-known billionaires and the Mormon Church.

O marco temporal é uma tese jurídica defendida pelo agronegócio, repudiada pelas organizações indígenas e considerada inconstitucional por juristas e advogados - indígenas e não indígenas.

A prominent Indigenous leader was shot in the Brazilian Amazon, intensifying the cry for justice in a region where violence against land activists keeps systematically soaring without punishment.

Ce communiqué du Collectif TANY, CRAAD-OI et SIF porte sur la refonte de la loi sur les investissements à Madagascar qui pourrait permettre la vente des terres agricoles aux étrangers

Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.