The pandemic has opened an opportunity for activities such as illegal logging and land grabs across Asia-Pacific because of less oversight and accountability.
Human Rights Watch found that DFID's CDC Group failed to ensure that the palm oil companies it finances in the DR Congo respects the basic rights of the people who work and live on or near its plantations.
Finnfund, a development financer, has invested US$15 million in a syndicate loan to Export Trading Group, one of Africa’s largest agricultural conglomerates.
The European People’s Party has proposed an EU law to prevent oligarchs and land-grabbers drawing on EU subsidies at the expense of small and medium-sized farming businesses.
Hewitt Cattle Australia, a joint partner of Canadian pension fund – Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), has listed its Mt. Cooper aggregation in Northern Queensland for sale.
Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company has acquired a 50% stake in Al Dahra Holding Company, which operates a landbank of 350,000 acres of irrigated land with direct access to various rivers such as the Danube, Colorado and Nile rivers.
Phoenix Global - the Dubai-based agri-trader which directly farmed more than 150,000 hectares in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Uganda, Mozambique and India - is now in liquidation
DR Congo's largest plantation company announces resignation of its Executive Chairman, soon after departure of its CEO.
The past few years has seen a steep increase in the players involved in the Australian agribusiness investment sector, particularly with Canadian and American pension funds.
Greenpeace finds that 1,319 hectares of forest - equivalent to 1,800 football fields - were deforested within indigenous territories from January to April 2020.
Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard joins international civil society groups to shed light on HMC’s morally repugnant land investments
The "BigMa" rice-corn blending initiative of listed firm AgriNurture, Inc. and groups of indigenous peoples in Mindanao will devote vast tracts of idle land for planting white corn as an alternative to reduce dependence on imported rice.
