The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.

For more than a century, corporations have controlled the Hawaiian island’s water. That could be changing.

The United Arab Emirates-based Blue Forest plans to start planting 200 million mangrove trees in Mozambique in a concession twice the size of Singapore in November.

In recent years, Gulf economies have tackled their food dependencies not just by importing foodstuffs but through land enclosures, or the purchasing of agricultural land abroad, particularly in the Middle East, North and East Africa (but also as far as the United States and Australia)

Amr Abdel Wahab, chairperson and managing director of the Egyptian Countryside Development Company, signed an investment contract with Al Magd Group for a 29,000-feddan area for the large-scale cultivation of oil seed crops

The Liberian Investigator has confirmed that the Socfin Group has sold the Salala Rubber plantation to Jeety Rubber following weeks of violent protests at the company’s facilities and years of serious criticism from Green Advocates and international rights groups for reportedly causing significant harm to local communities, including land grabbing, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses.

Les Emirats Arabes Unis vont soutenir l’Etat malgache dans la production de sucre. Le président Andry Rajoelina entend encourager les investisseurs émiratis à intervenir dans les secteurs clés de l’économie tels que l’agriculture résiliente.

African Food Security, a New York-based company, says it will grow maize on 305,000 ha in Cameroon and and 335,000 in the DR Congo, with plans to eventually reach 1 million ha in Africa.

A military-owned company will lease the land for 30 years through joint ventures and allocate it to investors for farming projects

San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.

Peasant families are threatened with eviction by Brasil Bio Fuels oil palm plantation company, with the complicity of the state governmen.

“Salic, which is charged by royal decree to make strategic investments at home and abroad to ensure food security in Saudi Arabia, is a good fit for several of our State institutions, as well as for our private sector, in the area of agriculture, livestock and agribusiness," says Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

The Zimbabwean government has allocated 4,000 hectares of land to Schweppes, where the company plans to cultivate its own citrus.

Buyers from the UAE have expressed interest in investing in the local agriculture sector, taking advantage of favourable climate, vast tracts of fertile land and the availability of numerous water bodies.

A delegation from the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) expressed interest in Zimbabwe’s agricultural potential and acknowledged the country’s strategic importance in the region.

Golden Veroleum Liberia is not being held accountable for defying a ruling issued six years ago by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil against the company for land grabbing.

In Tanzania, Chinese seed company Longping is setting its sights on expanding its soybean operations to the Ndogowe area of Dodoma, as well as developing a massive 10,000-hectare farm in Mkulazi, Morogoro.

Silva Capital invests in agricultural land to develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by reforesting cleared areas, while ensuring the land remains productive for farming.

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.

Elaia, the agricultural platform of Atitlan, acquires Ecosac, a Peruvian company specializing in grape and canned pepper production with 2,500 hectares currently under production and another 2,500 in reserve.

The Gulf’s dispossession of African land for carbon offset projects is key to its efforts to delay, obfuscate and obstruct addressing climate change in meaningful ways.

In a major move towards resolving long-standing tensions in Malen Chiefdom, Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr. Moinina David Sengeh, convened a dialogue on 4 August 2024 where he assured the community of the Government’s commitment to renegotiate the contract with Socfin Agricultural Company.

President of the Philippines says CP Group committed an additional USD1.5 billion in investments to the country, starting with a 10,000-hectare modernized mega farm, during meeting at the presidential palace.

Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up

The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.

Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.

Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.

With scarce arable land and water resources, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are expanding their agricultural diplomacy to improve food access and vying for agricultural cooperation with Africa

Selu Africa Limited, which is at the final stages of acquiring a lease, will put in an initial 80 million US Dollars to open up 20,000 acres of land for irrigation over a three-year period

Farmers cried out for help on Tuesday, July 23, as a P2-billion palm oil plantation project threatened to displace them and their families in three villages in Negros Occidental, Philippines.