Russia could provide North Korean farmers with agricultural land in the Far East, a scheme that one expert said could be a DPRK attempt to improve its food situation and earn cash for the regime.

One of the world’s largest palm oil producers, First Resources, appears to have secretly controlled a network of companies that have been clearing rainforests in Indonesia for more than a decade, an investigation by The Gecko Project has found.

The Vice President of Zimbabwe received a delegation from Ali Gholami Vegetables and Fruits LLC, a specialist in the procurement and supply of a wide variety of fresh products for the Gulf region.

Elite Agro Projects plans to establish a wheat farm in Ethiopia, where it already operates a flower farm.

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.

The company acquired 25,000 acres of land in the Tacama Savannah, within the Ebini area, located up the Upper Berbice River in Region 10.

The Company has now completed demarcation of more than 20,000 ha of land and transferred payments to 170 smallholders under the supervision of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank

Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 65 hectares of farmland in the US state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned.

Millets acquired through a partnership with India will be produced at Tacama Landing along the Berbice River as the country strives to achieve its ambitious food security goal.

The Supreme Court of India has cancelled anticipatory bail granted to Ram Karuturi who is accused of defaulting on a US$6.5 million loan taken in 2011 from the government of Djibouti to develop 15,000 ha of agricultural land

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.

Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

From Ghana to Nigeria and Ivory Coast, communities impacted by the operations of Belgium’s SIAT Group seek an end to a decade-long conflict tied to SIAT’s extensive plantations.

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.

Under Cibus Fund I’s ownership, Innoliva has doubled its footprint from around 4,300ha of “super high-density” olive-oil production to over 8,300ha of diversified products, including almonds and table olives.

The Communities who were contending over the equity distribution of ground rent by the owner of the estate, Wing Song M-House, finally reached a mutual understanding after a series of previous engagements with the ministry.

Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.

Work is progressing on the joint venture between Demerara Distillers Limited and the LR Group of Israel, with land clearing and preparation of the first 100 acres currently in progress.

Koh Kong provincial court in Cambodia convicted ten land activists on Tuesday of incitement to commit serious social disorder and malicious denunciation and sentenced them to one year in prison plus a total fine of 40 million riels to be paid to the plaintiff, tycoon Heng Huy.

Earthworm Foundation visited the plantations run by Socfin’s subsidiaries, one in Liberia and the other in Cameroon, where communities and local and international organizations had raised serious allegations of sexual harassment, land grabs, pollution and unfair labor practices.

Socfin agrees that more needs to be done to further "reduce" communities' "concerns" and that some serious issues need immediate action

The state’s retirement system invested heavily in a private land deal that allowed a foreign company to effectively ship Arizona’s scarce water supply overseas.

Between Aug. 4 and Aug. 7, security guards for a palm oil company Brasil BioFuels S.A. (BBF) in the Amazonian state of Pará that’s been dubbed the “palm oil war” region allegedly shot and wounded five Tembé Indigenous people. The shootings are the latest outburst in a chain of violence tied to the disputes between Indigenous communities and palm oil companies over land in the region.

Agriculture is being flagged as the replacement for residential property investments following changes to Portugal's Golden Visa programme, with investors urged to look towards funds such as Pela Terra and Terra Nova.

The Farmland for Farmers Act, in banning corporations from purchasing farmland, improves the chances for beginning, small-scale producers to access land and produce food for themselves and their communities.

With Pakistan’s parliament's approval of the Special Investment Facilitation Council on August 1, all is now set for offering investors to procure huge lands for agriculture farming.

Ukrainian agricultural conglomerate owned by Saudi Arabia's SALIC is planning to market the country's first soil carbon credits using a methodology developed by Verra, despite the ongoing war.

the story of a women group in Kalimantan called “Hurung Hapakat”, which means “Working Together”. Collectively, and against serious repression, they have reclaimed some land from oil palm plantations in order to also reclaim their food sovereignty, dignity and wisdom. And they are not alone.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should allow lands given to agrarian reform beneficiaries be leased by bigger corporations that are into agribusiness, a business leader said Thursday.