The oil palm plantation company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of military forces for the protection of its plantations and environs.

In the lead up to the sixth European Union – African Union Summit, small, rural farmers from umbrella organisations in Africa and Europe are calling for coherent policies that protect small-scale African and European agriculture.

The Bolloré Group is involved in rubber and oil palm plantations through its 39.4 percent shareholdings of SOCFIN, which controls close to 400,000 hectares of concessions for plantations in Asia and Africa.

Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of mass eviction by their sugarcane plantation companies in neighbouring Uganda?

The Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana has approved a $50m commitment to PGIM’s US agriculture fund.

Camvert SA, an agricultural production company controlled by Cameroonian business mogul Aboubakar al Fatih, recently signed an investment agreement with the API, Cameroon’s agency in charge of the promotion of private investments.

Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is buying into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds with a $456m investment.

An EU audit found that the Czech Republic's former prime minister, the billionaire Andrej Babiš, had improperly kept control of his food and farming conglomerate Agrofert while in office.

As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.

Arla Foods, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in Europe, has inked a joint-venture partnership with consumer goods company, Tolaram Group, for establishment of a 200 hectare dairy farm in Kaduna State.

South Sudan's Deputy Minister for Foreign and International Cooperation Deng Dau Deng Malek placed the proposal in a meeting with Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque in Dhaka.