Australia’s largest dairy operation, Tasmania’s historic Van Diemen’s Land Company, is reportedly on the verge of being offloaded by its Chinese businessman owner Xianfeng Lu.

The Minister of Environment and Forestry said she would prepare the land needed for investment by the United Arab Emirates agricultural giant, Elite Agro LLC.

The women of Malen, who are struggling to get their lands back from SOCFIN Agricultural Company, are calling on the government to intervene as soon as possible so that they can have access to their lands since that is all that they know.

A spokesperson for Malaysian palm oil giant, Sime Darby, who labelled NGO critics as ‘toxic entities’ and called on the government to suppress them, has sparked fury among civil society groups all around the tropics.

This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms to agriculture in illegal settlements on Palestinian and Syrian lands and examines their role in the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

One year after palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) were called out for illegal deforestation, land grabbing, and the destruction of critical wildlife habitats, and many ongoing abuses later things on the ground don’t look much better.

A new report on the state of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa shows how communities are turning the tide on a massive land grab in the region

Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.

Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.

Agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was the second deadliest sector for people standing up for the environment and their lands.

NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).

On the 8th of March - International Women's Day – we join women across the world who are affected by the violent expansion of industrial oil palm and rubber plantations and who are calling for action to stop the harassment, sexual violence and abuse against women in and around plantations IMMEDIATELY!

Wrathall went to the the most remote and contested parts of north Western Australia to investigate stories of the forced closure of Aboriginal communities. What he found instead was a complex and complicated set of issues around the ways that huge mineral-rich region is being developed by government, big mining and big agriculture.

Interview activist Nasako Besingi, the Director of the Cameroonian organization Struggle to Economize the Future Environment (SEFE), which supports local communities’ land rights struggles mainly against palm oil plantations.

The SOCFIN land acquisition in Malen Chiefdom reads like a collusion between the government and the investor—an alliance of the powerful and wealthy—to strip a community of their most valuable resource.

At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.

Once one of Florida's iconic ranching dynasties has sold the balance of its Osceola County land holdings to a global agribusiness firm Optimum Agriculture and the government of Dubai for $136.5 million.

Earthsight report exposes the secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture which are threatening the Congo Basin’s forests. This post details findings from The Republic of Congo.

The chief investment officer for the University of Illinois Foundation is aiming to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio she oversees.

Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.

Two farmers from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were shot inside oil palm plantation of PT. Bumi Sawit Kencana (BSK), a subsidiary of Wilmar Group. They were shot by police officer assigned to secure the plantation area.

Thanks to the railway and other projects, former Soviet bloc countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan smell opportunity for boosting agricultural exports to China. So does Russia.

In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc.

The cultures and very survival of indigenous peoples in Africa are seriously threatened by land grabbing and land dispossession caused by extractive industries, agribusiness and other forms of business operations.

The controversy surrounding palm oil cultivation involving agricultural trading company Olam International has intensified over the last two months.

Bollore seems to think all of the countries in central Africa are colonies there for its private exploitation and its own financial bottom line.

The report titled, Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana: restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.

A new video by LifeMosaic, part of the series “Territories of Life“, looks at the impacts of the enormous land grab affecting indigenous peoples around the world.

This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon.

A new report by Italian researchers shows that the controversial Senhuile project in Senegal is on the verge of collapse. The project, initiated by Italian and Senegalese investors four years ago to produce biofuels, has provoked fierce resistance from affected communities in which six people have died.