Between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.

Grupo Socfin han causado la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana con el avance de los monocultivos de palma aceitera y caucho.

Grimmway’s owner is backed by pension funds including the public employees of the states of Maine and Oregon, Texas teachers, the New York state Teamsters union and the Producer-Writers Guild of America.

The President talked about his country’s over 5 million hectares of arable land and said he was seeking credible partnerships for investment in large-scale food production

As part of the initiative, development bank BNDES could set up a fund to attract foreign capital, and Japan, South Korea, China and Saudi Arabia have shown interest backing investments of this type.

The Minister of Water Resources has appealed to state governments and communities to provide land for a Presidential directive to cultivate 500,000 ha of irrigable agriculture across Nigeria's twelve River Basins.

A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.

Pour la Confédération paysanne, les Amis de la Terre, le mouvement des Amap et Terres de liens, cette nouvelle forme de portage du foncier risque de s’avérer contre-productive, en favorisant la concentration foncière en France.

After a delay of almost five years to the day, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has finally got around to addressing a complaint filed against a company linked to clearing Papuan rainforests.

Emirati agribusiness Al Dahra is in talks to acquire 210,000 ha of agricultural land in Toshka, southern Egypt.

The founder of debt ladden Chinese property developer Shimao Group Holdings has put a Western Australia cattle station portfolio almost as big as Belgium on the market with an asking price of about $250 million.

Colombia's government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as part of a bid to increase agricultural output and boost peace efforts.

Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo.

More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for the cost of “land preparation” and other fees.

Du Ghana au Nigeria en passant par la Côte d’Ivoire, des communautés exigent la résolution des conflits fonciers et sociaux qui perdurent depuis une décennie dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT.

An Indonesian court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua.

Una colonia menonita compuesta por tres sectores (Liviney, Las Piedras y Australia) en el municipio de Puerto Gaitán, Meta, ha acumulado cerca de 38 mil hectáreas de tierra.

RRG Nature Based Solutions LLC has so far acquired lands for carbon farming projects in Morocco and Colombia.

Through Macquarie Asset Management, PFJC will invest in farmland with various crops, such as wheat, beans, cotton and avocados on farmlands spread across eastern and western Australia.

Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion investment manager of TIAA, has expanded its partnership with a global fintech platform to offer investors and financial advisors the opportunity to allocate to global agricultural assets.

"Empresas transnacionais do agronegócio causam violência, grilagem de terras e destruição no Cerrado" é o título de um novo relatório da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos

In southern Cameroon, about 150km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a bitter story from the colonial era is playing out. Rubber companies are once again destroying rainforests and communities.

Answers from the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation to questions from member Futselaar (SP) about the withdrawal by the Dutch development bank FMO of Plantations et Huileries du Congo.

The Danish-designed dairy farm covers 400 hectares of land, with the capacity to house 400 milking cows and 1000 animals in total.

A High Court in Pakistan resumed hearing a petition against the grant of large swathes of public land in Punjab to the military for “corporate agricultural farming”, under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

The 2000 hectares of agricultural land, along with buildings and related assets, is located within the Mkushi Farm Block of Zambia’s Region II agricultural zone.

Researchers say the construction of a dam and sugarcane plantations has dispossessed the Lower Omo’s peoples of their farming and grazing lands and irreversibly altered the natural cycles of the Omo River.

Le plaidoyer des communautés soutenues par des organisations de la société civile a contraint l’entreprise à ne céder que trois sites sur les cinq escomptés, pour une superficie totale d’environ trois hectares, alors que les communautés en espéraient 30 hectares.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

Across the region, people have been harassed, threatened and criminally charged in retaliation for opposing land and water grabs linked to mining, dams and industrial agriculture, cementing the region’s ranking as one of the world’s most perilous for environmental and land rights defenders.