Only the Amazon and Congo basins rival Papua New Guinea for pristine tropical wilderness. But 5 million hectares of its jungle is under threat from foreign land grabs and back-door logging.

A new report claims that European demand for biofuels is not to blame for land acquisitions in poorer countries. But evidence suggests that the issue is more complex than the biofuels industry would like us to believe.

The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails

Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.

China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and the risk of further deforestation in Brazil and beyond. Tom Levitt reports.

No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.

Joining the neo-colonial bandwagon, Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food at the cost of locals

China’s search for new land has led Beijing to aggressively seek large land leases in Mozambique over the past two years, particularly in its most fertile areas, such as the Zambezi valley in the north and the Limpopo valley in the south.

Even the World Bank is continuing its role as a neo-colonial consensus agent by actively pursuing and financing access to 'under-utilised land' around the world through its International Finance Corporation.

A day-long conference will be held on Feb. 6, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi to deliberate on the ongoing land takeover in India and in African countries like Ethiopia by Indian companies.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.

A US subsidiary of Saudi dairy giant Almarai Co. is “taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resource,” the lawsuit says.

The CSSF has put an end to a year-long dispute between small shareholders and Socfin's main shareholders, the Fabri family and French billionaire Vincent Bolloré: the 689,337 shares they not control between them will be bought back at €32.50 per share. This will take Socfin off the stock market at a time when it is the target of fierce criticism from a major Norwegian pension fund. It was also the end of an era for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Twenty organisations and allies of communities affected by the Socfin group’s oil palm and rubber plantations express their dissatisfaction with the Norges Bank Investment Management's decision not to divest from Bolloré SE and Compagnie de l’Odet SE

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.

The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.

The complaint to the OECD lodged by Friends of the Earth was supposed to deal with adverse impacts of three of the bank’s palm oil clients, ranging from human rights and labour rights violations to deforestation

Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.

Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and armed groups that have tried to take over the land where rural communities and Indigenous people live in the Colombian plains, including the US corporation Cargill.

The United University Professions' resolution calls for an end to TIAA landholdings “associated with deforestation and human rights abuses".

Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil, and Papua is its newest frontier. A visual investigation suggests fires have been deliberately set on the land by Korean palm oil giant that has been buying up swathes of Asia's largest remaining rainforests for their plantations.

Nicaragua has ramped up export production to the US amid the pandemic. But this has come at a high cost for Indigenous communities, who are being run off their land to make way for cattle ranches.

The Feronia case, and other development bank investment failures, shows that there is a need to overhaul development finance institutions practices and to consider whether it might be better to just shut them down entirely.

In Sri Lanka, where the state formally owns an estimated 85 percent of the country’s 6.6 million hectares of land, there is legitimate concern that the proposed US-funded project, the MCC compact would shift control of these lands towards private interests.

RSPO member companies and their associates account for three-quarters of the fire hotspots detected in the plantation concessions of the top 30 groups in the first nine months of 2019.

Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.

In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, Olam wants to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon.

29 March is Day of the Landless, it marks the founding anniversary of Asian Peasant Coalition and the launching of No Land, No Life! campaign. 126 organizations from 24 countries are issuing the following statement to commemorate the struggle of rural communities around the world for land and resources.