A Ugandan court has finally fixed different hearing dates for cases filed by victim communities in Kiryandongo who were forced off their land by multinational agribusiness companies.
A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.
A joint venture between Australia's Warakirri Asset Management and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired a grain growing aggregation in Riverina, Australia for more than $55 million
Researchers say that cross-border campaigning and resistance by community land rights organizations is a major reason why the industry has faltered in Africa.
Managing Director of Okomu Oil Palm Company, Edo State, Dr. Graham Hefer, lamented gunmen’s attacks on the company’s plantation and challenged host communities to volunteer information.
Indonesia’s food estate program, billed as improving domestic food availability, has had the opposite effect on farmers recruited into the scheme, a new study shows.
Australia’s richest person believes foreign ownership of Australian farmland should be capped at a maximum of 49 per cent to protect against breakdowns in international relations.
Experts warn that providing companies with an option to dispute the revocation opens up room for corruption, and gives companies time to speed up the exploitation of the land while the revocations remain non-binding.
PHC wishes to assure those local communities with whom it is engaged that it will continue all mediation processes with local communities commenced prior to the transaction.
TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, rice, and timber on behalf of European pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
An area nearly the size of Belgium will be cleared in Indonesia’s Papua province to grow food crops under a government program. A new analysis shows that this conversion alone could result in the release of 616 million metric tons of greenhouse gases — a third of what Indonesia as a whole currently emits in a year.
