Despite objections by numerous community organisations and representatives, Siaya Kenya's National Land Commission will provide Lake Agro Ltd 17,250 acres of land at the Yala Swamp for agricultural use in a 66 years lease agreement.

Compagnie Fruitier in Ghana hopes that issues of land allocation to local farmers would be expedited to avoid the problem of encroachment on lands already allocated.

Farmers and researchers in Canada say this trend could speed up rising costs and force smaller, local farmers to expand or get out of the industry altogether.

Assets up for grabs include a 70-hectare piece of land and greenhouses sitting on 26 hectares of land

Harvard student organisations find that Harvard’s endowment lacks transparency in its investments and is complicit in occupations, prisons, militaries, land grabs, policing, and border control.

Aliko Dangote has announced that the Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc is significantly scaling up its investment in the sugar sub-sector in line with the requirement of the Nigeria Sugar Master plan

Poor planning and ignoring advice of indigenous groups resulted in flooding, failed crops and left behind arid, barren land that could exacerbate the climate crisis

The Japanese insurer has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp

On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia

Farmers in the El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme are considering forming a union to address land issues, seven years after the Farmers Union was disbanded by the Al Bashir regime in Sudan.

Small farmers in the US are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers.

A mediation process is unlikely to address long-lasting tensions and tenure issues that arise when ‘development’ projects on public lands take over large tracts of ancestral land