Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations that could supply multinational firms’ thirst for palm oil and put the wealth into the community, says SDI

Vietnam's HAGL Agrico, which has 18,000ha of agricultural land worth about US$400 million in Ratanakiri province northeast Cambodia, has shipped its first batch of fresh bananas from its Cambodia plant to China

With the aim of improving its financial resources, management is in on-going discussions with its lenders and major shareholders and is reviewing various short and long term financial alternatives.

The government initially planned to allow foreigners to buy farmland from 2024, but Zelensky, under pressure from opponents, has promised a referendum on this.

Agrinurture Inc. is in talks with the Department of Justice through the Bureau of Corrections over the development of about 2,000 hectares of property into an integrated agri-tourism corn plantation in Palawan, Philippines.

A little-known company, Camvert, intends to convert 60,000 hectares of forest adjacent to Campo Ma’an National Park into oil palm plantations.

So far dozens have been arrested with one reported fatality among the protestors.

Today, the communities of the Ndiaël that fought Senhuile since it arrived are still there. For them, nothing has changed.

Uzbekistan's cluster system is essentially a new form of "hidden" or "secret privatization" in which shadowy firms are assuming the state's long-time monopoly control over the most profitable aspects of agriculture.

Ukrainians are concerned that cash-flush foreigners could snap up one of Ukraine’s agricultural lands, leaving many of the country’s 41 million people forced to work for others on the soil they once owned.

Traditional authorities of Mbonjo, a village located in Moungo division of the Littoral region, say they have taken enough from SOCAPALM (Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies), whom they accuse of defiling their cultural heritage and landgrabbing.

On December 13, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) launched the new ‘Laws of Land Grabs in Asia Pacific‘ report. This publication is a joint effort of six member countries of Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific under the Food Sovereignty Programme of Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).