Green Scenery calculates that 60% of the total area in Pujehun district is already being, or could soon be converted for large-scale industrial agriculture, primarily for oil palm plantations.

This special edition of DTE newsletter focuses on some of the past and present campaigns and debates around top-down development in Papua and the impact on communities, including the Merauke Estate massive land grab

Final call for organisations to sign the Dakar Appeal against land grabbing before 15 June 2011!

Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming across the US grain belt -- and National Australia Bank is right in the middle.

The emerging resistance against MIFEE is located within a national (and international) alliance against land grabs and within the indigeous movement against Indonesian occupation and exploitation.

Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.

The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.

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

SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.

Human rights organizations and parliamentarians from West African countries and Zambia in East Africa have expressed interest in Sierra Leone’s new land laws and efforts to resist and negotiate better terms with international companies.

Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.

The oil palm is native to West Africa, where it plays a vital role in food security and local economies, especially for women. But in Sierra Leone, the arrival of an industrial oil palm plantation has threatened all this.

Many oil palm plantations’ concessions in West and Central Africa were built on lands stolen from communities during colonial occupations. This is the case in the DRC, where food company Unilever began its palm oil empire. Today, these plantations are still sites of ongoing poverty and violence.

CNBC Africa reports on the US-based company African Agriculture Inc and its relationship with Les Fermes de la Teranga, which took over the lands previously leased to Senhuile, in northern Senegal

For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control is the key to any radical transformation of the food systems and for attempts to achieve genuine sustainable development to really matter.

Companies are seeking to press ahead with investments on community lands or even take advantage of the pandemic to avoid the usual authorization requirements

The European Union spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing and land grabs.

In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.

Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights

Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.

An obscure company’s quest to rebuild a century-old business could lead to the British stock exchange.

Civil Society Organisations in Edo State, Nigeria under the umbrella of Coalition for Protection of the Environment, recently staged a protest against land grabbing and deforestation.

The current economic model of transferring land to foreign investors on a massive scale fails to acknowledge the rights of rural communities to collectively own and manage their territories.

CSO Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia concerned by reports that draft law has been altered significantly behind closed doors, and calls on the legislature to immediately release the new draft for scrutiny by the public and civil society.

Already, investors in Brazil, Guyana's neighbour to the south and south west, have indicated their willingness to invest in the intermediate and Rupununi savannahs.

Pressure is mounting on the Northern Territory Government to make land available for a Chinese company, as it struggles to progress environmental approvals and negotiate with the Indigenous Traditional Owners.

Disregarding the rights of indigenous people to their traditional lands is costing companies millions of dollars each year, and costing communities themselves their lives.

New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.

Africa is being heralded as the new frontier for commercial farming but, as governments and investors sign deals, a counter-movement of family farmers is promoting alternative pathways to development.