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.

In a move to bolster Bahrain’s agri-food sector and address food security challenges, Mumtalakat, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, yesterday announced the establishment of the Bahrain Food Holding Company.

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.

Defence Front for the Interests of Santa Clara de Uchunya condemn the smear campaign of the company Ocho Sur and demand its withdrawal from their ancestral territory

The International Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Bogotá this week is a step towards strengthening alliances across social justice movements.

In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

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.

Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.

A new study identifies around 18m hectares of land in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC that have been acquired in large-scale deals for logging, intensive agriculture, fossil-fuel extraction and mining.

Tumbling corn and soybean prices are sparking defaults, undermining returns for so-called Fiagros, the Brazilian investment funds backed by agricultural receivables such as interest, dividends and land-lease payments.

Zambezi's appeal to investors for developing green schemes over fertile land aims to transform Namibia into a food basket, marking a significant step towards sustainable agriculture and food security.

Fiagros are a new type of fund that can allow foreigners to circumvent legal restrictions and acquire land in Brazil.

Le nom de Socfin, la holding belgo-luxembourgeoise qui détient des dizaines de milliers d’hectares de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas, a été symboliquement saisi en France, dans le conflit qui oppose depuis des années les paysans africains et le groupe Bolloré.

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price

Eni is pursuing agricultural production for biofuels in six African countries, including the Republic of the Congo where collaboration with ‘Big Agri’ companies risks land dispossession and environmental degradation.

A comprehensive study of thousands of agribusiness and other projects funded by the World Bank’s IFC from 1994-2022 finds that the average project "causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced”.

Cent cinquante paysans camerounais ont saisi mi-février la marque d’une holding belgo-luxembourgeoise, qu’ils accusent d’être liée au groupe Bolloré, pour ne pas leur avoir réglé une créance de 140.000 euros

The Swiss-based multinational ASC Impact claims to have acquired 22,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s remote Gambela state along the border with South Sudan for large-scale tree plantations, carbon credits and agriculture.

A Strategic Investment Partnership Agreement was formalized in Qatar between Dinara Group Holding and Qatar National Enterprises which will upscale Dinara's dairy, meat and crop farms and erect additional dairy farms

A showdown is looming in South Sudan over the draft land ownership policy as the Central Equatoria State Assembly rejected the “land belongs to the people” policy, claiming it is a secret deal to legalize land grabbing.

The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has opened up 21,000 acres of idle land belonging to the National Youth Service and Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority for commercial leases to boost food security.

New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.

“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.

The case stems from accusations lodged by the Djiboutian Ambassador in 2018, asserting that Karuturi neglected to meet the terms of agricultural agreements signed in 2011 and 2012 for activities in Ethiopia.

The National Sugar Development Council in Nigeria has secured new investors to expand the sugar industry by 20,000 hectares as part of the council's implementation of the Nigerian Sugar Masterplan.

US food giant Del Monte is facing multiple accusations of assault, rape and murder by its guards at the vast farm northeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, some going back years.