Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration

NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO International for causing palm oil abuses

The government has prioritised provision of land to investors, mainly large scale and foreign-based, free of charge or for a nominal sum, under an incorrect assumption that this will result in livelihood improvement for all the people.

Tyson Foods, the largest meat processing company in the U.S., will invest in the construction of a modern meat processing complex in Kazakhstan with the Kusto Group, a Singapore-based company involved in beef production in Kazakhstan.

China hosted African agricultural leaders for a forum to expand and deepen cooperation, investment, and trade with African agriculture over the next 3 years. And 11 project agreements were signed by government departments, international organizations, research units, and companies, adding to 115 agricultural projects that China has in two-thirds of African countries.

Indonesian government have alleged that permits underpinning a multi-billion dollar plantation project in Papua were falsified. The land is being opened up by investors whose identity is hidden behind anonymously owned companies, as part of a plan to develop an oil palm plantation almost twice the size of London in the remote region.

A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, is engaged in land grabbing, deforestation and killing of endangered elephant calf within its plantation

The Philippines, Brazil and Colombia ranked as the deadliest countries for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people and land rights activists.

Indian billionaire and Pepsi International franchise holder Ravi Jaipuria wants to acquire vast swathes of prime land in Zimbabwe to diversify into production of key agricultural products.

PSP Investments has been doubling down on capital commitments in Australia’s ag sector – and particularly in almonds and water recently.

Malaysia’s Sime Darby says it will sell its underperforming palm oil concession in Liberia to Mano Manufacturing Company (MANCO), Liberia’s largest manufacturer of household health and cleaning products.

Open letter to the heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development