Edo State Governor tells delegation of World Bank's IFC that his government is in discussions with the Central Bank of Nigeria to develop a programme to provide investors with 100,000 ha of agricultural land for plantations.

The decision by the Supreme Court's Court of Appeal gives the green light to Stanbic Bank Plc to dispose off Karuturi Limited assets as foreclosure to defaulted loans totaling to Ksh. 621 million in the flower farm's pre-receivership

Details are just emerging of the scale of the recent disturbances in Sahn Malen chiefdom in Southern Sierra Leone. There are disputes between local land owners and a European agribusiness company, SOCFIN. BBC reporter Umaru Fofana went to the area with a group of human rights activists and sent this special report from Pujehun.

At least two villagers killed and dozens of others are in hiding or being held by police in Malen, Sierra Leone following a brutal intervention by police and military to suppress local protests against SOCFIN's oil palm plantation operations.

A new Oakland Institute report details how the Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world.

Under an MoU signed between Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation and the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Uzbek government has offered the Indian company around 20,000 ha of land for farming

Sime Darby has put up its oil plantation in Liberia on sale after failing to acquire all 220,000 hectares of land the government promised it as stated in a concession agreement signed about a decade ago.

Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.

ACT NOW! is demanding Papua New Guinea government to immediately publish a full list of SABLs current status. SABL is one of the world’s biggest illegal land grabs, and now more than 5-years after PNG government promised to cancel the SABL, people are still waiting to hear which leases have been cancelled.

Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide

Cameroon’s top human rights body condemns human rights violations committed against a member of a local farmers association (OFFGO) embroiled in land conflicts with an influential Cameroon businessman

Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.