Tensions between local communities and large-scale agriculture companies are running high in Cameroon and disputes over land and environmental impacts have increased over the years.

Security guards working for the multinational fruit company Del Monte have been accused of running over two teenagers at a pineapple farm in Kenya that is currently at the centre of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses.

Dubai Investments and E20 Investment, an Abu Dhabi-based agribusiness investment company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop 3,750 Ha of agricultural land in Angola, espeically for rice and avocados

A growing list of global household brands, from PepsiCo to L’Oréal to Hershey’s, have suspended their purchases from Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), Indonesia’s second- largest palm oil producer, in the wake of reports of land grabbing, environmental degradation and criminal persecution of human rights defenders by AAL and its subsidiaries operating in Central Sulawesi province.

Communities are calling for a resumption of dialogue with a view to resolving the land conflicts and compensating the damage suffered.

A grievance assessment mission commissioned by Belgian oil palm and rubber company Socfin has been rejected by communities affected by the company’s operations in several African and Asian countries.

The new law gives foreign investors equal rights to land as ordinary Malagasy, some who are still demanding the return of ancestral lands seized by the French in the 19th century.

Launched during the pandemic in mid-2020, Veripath Farmland Partners has already amassed a total of 115,000 acres under management in Canada.

Iowa farmers are bidding not only against neighbors, but out-of-state investors including professional athletes, well-known billionaires and the Mormon Church.

Indonesia’s decision to revoke plantation permits across the country is marred with irregularities including companies continuing to operate or engage in conflicts with Indigenous and local communities.

GenZero will generate carbon offsets for Singapore by investing “north of US$20 to US$30 million” to restore about 100,000 ha of land in the Kwahu region of Ghana by planting cocoa and other plant species.

Pakistan Chambers of Commerce calls upon the government to unveil rules and regulations for agriculture real estate investment trusts to enable large stretches of land to be sold to individuals or legal entities.

Carbon credit schemes are not just flawed as climate solutions; they have perpetrated devastating human rights abuses and land grabs.

At the Annual General Meeting of shareholders in Luxembourg, civil society denounce SOCFIN's self-regulatory practices, which prevent the resolution of land, social and environmental conflicts.

A l’occasion de l’Assemblée Générale des actionnaires du Groupe SOCFIN, la société civile dénonce ses pratiques d’auto-régulation qui ne permettent pas la résolution des conflits fonciers, sociaux et environnementaux.

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.

An official claims that three land activists in Cambodia, detained on suspicion of conspiring to overthrow the government, had intended to incite a peasant uprising by educating farmers on the wealth and poverty divide

Groups call on development banks and their governments to ensure that the mediation panel takes steps to rectify the situation.

Des organisations demandent aux banques de développement et à leurs gouvernements de veiller à ce que le groupe de médiation prenne des mesures pour rectifier la situation

When NCH Agriculture, a $1 billion agriculture investment business, founded Agroprosperis in 2006, they didn’t have a plan but they saw an opportunity to invest in cheap Ukrainian farmland.

The bill's proponents say hedge funds and other money managers have been buying up agricultural land in California to sell water rights and use water "at an unsustainable rate to farm permanent crops or grow livestock feed for export.

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.

A prominent Indigenous leader was shot in the Brazilian Amazon, intensifying the cry for justice in a region where violence against land activists keeps systematically soaring without punishment.

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

The Development Bank of Japan annonces investment in fund that will pursue a diversified portfolio of high-quality food and agriculture investments in targeted regions across Australia and New Zealand.

Un informe de Global Witness dice que instituciones financian a sabiendas a comerciantes de carne vacuna acusados de tener vínculos con la deforestación en el Gran Chaco.

Illegal oil palm plantations spanning an area one and a half times the size of London have been amnestied under an Indonesian government program that critics say incentivizes corporations over small farmers.

Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.

There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.

As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.