Arizona’s attorney general has called for an investigation into a 2015 deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department for desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value.

Angola's Minister of Agriculture presented projects for large-scale agriculture to the UAE's Al Dahra Group and Elite Agro, while in the UAE on a six day visit.

Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.

A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the sale of more than 100 hectares of Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha by Shalimar Flowers.

Farmers and researchers in Canada say this trend could speed up rising costs and force smaller, local farmers to expand or get out of the industry altogether.

Small farmers in the US are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers.

In September 2022, two large contingents of national police and military were dispatched to oil palm plantation concession areas of the Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) in Lokutu and Boteka.

The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.

Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South under a compromise arrangement backed by Zimbabawe government.

In 2014, over 700 Cambodian villagers filed a complaint with the Thai Human Rights Commission against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol, accused of forced displacement, property destruction and land grabbing.The trial on the substance of the case is expected to start in April 2023, with a verdict at the end of next year.

We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.

These assets will be added to Manulife’s existing portfolio of 400,000 acres of managed farmland across agricultural regions in Chile, the U.S., Canada, and Australia

The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs

In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.

New podcast, in English, featuring Ardo Sow from the Collectif pour la Défense du Ndiaël

What if foreign investors, US corporation funds, pension funds, land development companies, and wealthy investors continue to buy more US farmland?

Letter from Indigenous Peoples, civil society, and community-based organisations to household consumer goods companies demanding they immediately suspend Indonesia’s second largest palm oil company from their supply chains.

Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five multinational corporations, and could continue expansion. Plantations take up large tracts of land and water. The current water crisis in these territories would not exist if corporations had not grabbed the land from communities.

There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic.

As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.

Film maker Gabriela Cowperthwaite uncovers a massive global scheme to gobble up resources, pairing with the Center for Investigative Reporting to bring these shadowy operations to light.

Around the same time security forces were destroying markets and shops on Lubigi, two flower farms belonging to Uganda’s richest man, Sudhir Ruparelia, could be seen extending their reach into wetlands outside Kampala.

The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.

The project, which is a joint venture between Northsworthy Farms, and Allied Industries Limited and Nigeria's Delta State Government had planted over 250,000 oil palm trees in over 1,400 hectares of land.

About 100 families from two villages in southern Laos were forced to give up 190 hectares of farmland to a company that will build a cassava processing plant after Lao soldiers threatened them if they did not comply.

Communities protest grabbing, bulldozing and replacing of their biodiversity with monocrop oil palms by Fayus Nigeria Ltd and several other of the Edo State governor's business friends and multinational companies.

In May 2022, community members, activists, and land and human rights defenders from West and Central Africa gathered in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire for a meeting of an informal alliance formed to fight against industrial monocultures.

Voters will decide whether to create a new government entity to take back control of water held by one of Hawaii’s most powerful agribusiness corporations and a Canadian pension fund.