In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years, with large-scale monocultures initiated by oil companies under the seductive term of carbon neutrality and promises of job creation for communities.

The company intends to cultivate bamboo in phases, beginning with 8,500 hectares, and is applying for carbon credits with Gold Standard.

UAE-based agribusiness venture Al Dahra plans to expand its business in Egypt amid the African country’s bid to promote investments in different agricultural sectors.

PT Inecda, a Samsung subsidiary, violated the RSPO sustainability standards by failing to obtain consent from an Indigenous community in Sumatra before clearing more than 5,000 hectares of forests for palm oil plantations.

A new agricultural hub is expected to be embodied in an Algerian-Saudi partnership in strategic agriculture and dairy cattle on an area exceeding 20,000 hectares in the wilaya of El Menea (Southern Algeria).

One Chinese company that has joined Laos' durian rush is Jiarun, an infrastructure builder that has vowed to establish the world's largest durian plantation in Attapeu, a remote province in southern Laos, on 5,000 ha it has secured on a 50-year lease from the Laotian government.

TIAA is the world’s largest landgrabber, having acquired over 3 million acres of land in a little over a decade, often in places impacted by land-related violence, such as Brazil, Colombia, and in the United States, Phillips County Arkansas.

Sinoe County’s Superintendent Peter Wleh Nyensuah is backing an oil palm company’s illegitimate operations against a local community demanding its rights and holding the firm accountable.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will add 46 farms covering 41,554 acres — or about 65 square miles — in eight US states to its vast portfolio, further bolstering its standing as an agricultural “titan.”

US court orders the IFC to pay nearly $5 million in reparations to members of Honduran land defense movements who faced violence at the hands of security forces linked to a Central American palm oil corporation that received a $30 mn World Bank loan in 2009.

The Italian agricultural group Bf Spa, in partnership with the Algerian National Investment Fund (Fni), is launching this high-tech regenerative farming initiative that will initially cultivate 3,000 hectares of durum wheat, with plans to expand to 10,000 hectares of dried legumes.

The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.