Women in the districts of Bombali and Pujehun, affected by the large-scale land acquisition by multilateral companies have called on the government to ensure inclusiveness in decision- making and good governance of their lands.

When the Indonesian government announced ambitious plans to ramp up domestic food production as the pandemic set in last June, officials claimed that it would not lead to “environmental destruction”. An investigation by The Gecko Project and Tempo reveals how the ministry has exploited regulations that were drafted hastily during the pandemic, stripping away environmental safeguards and opening up vast new areas of land for agriculture.

In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.

The inflation wave that’s sweeping through the global economy is playing into a investment niche that a small group of people in finance have spent years developing: farmland.

US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.

Examples of large-scale land acquisitions in Sierra Leone (Addax/Sunbird Bioenergy and Socfin) and the DR Congo (Feronia) call for European and African governments and development banks to stop funding such operations

Aim is to defend human rights within rubber concessions, including Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and the Liberia Agricultural Company (LAC).

In a new report, Greenpeace Africa and Green Development Advocates (GDA) expose the disastrous effects of the illegal Camvert oil palm plantation in Cameroon, which is supplied with seedlings by the French research agency CIRAD.

Gladstone now holds 111,000 acres in 15 different U.S. states, and 45,000 acre-feet of banked water in California, growing a variety of permanent and annual row crops.

The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a New York-based asset manager with expertise in forestry, agriculture, and emerging markets, announced it had completed the sale of the Kaiuroo aggregation to RFM for an undisclosed sum.

An administrative court in West Papua Province ruled in favour of a district head who had revoked permits allowing more than a dozen palm oil companies to operate in Indigenous forest areas and turn them into plantations.

Aminata Fabba is the Chairlady of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender in the southern provincial district of Pujehun. MALOA is a community movement resisting SOCFIN and other biofuel capitalists in Sierra Leone.