A $5 billion Exim Bank of India fund to support Africa's agriculture development through the "Feed Africa" project seems to fit into the Africa Development Bank's plans to improve the agriculture sector
A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.
Asian Peasant Coalition strongly condemns the repression and land grabbing carried out by the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co., Ltd. against the indigenous Kuy people of Preah Vihear, Cambodia.
Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Mozambique tells the Charge d'Affaires at the UAE Embassy that his ministry will co-ordinate with other relevant authorities to provide UAE investors with land to for agricultural projects
Why did it take years for Cargill and Wilmar to cut off one of Guatemala’s most corrupt companies?
The slaughter of people defending their land or environment continued unabated in 2017, with new research showing almost four people a week were killed worldwide in struggles against mines, plantations, poachers and infrastructure projects.
An Indonesian community rights group has filed a complaint against the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil at the OECD for failing to address complaints by residents of two West Kalimantan villages.
Four new permits for palm oil expansion issued in Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia covering area almost the size of Singapore - major parts of which are comprised of high-density forest cover. One is given to Wilmar International key suppliers, Ganda group.
A local Liberian company has filed a lawsuit against Golden Veroleum Liberia claiming that the palm company owes it money for services rendered, including death benefits for an employee who died from a workplace accident.
This report by IIED discusses evolving patterns in land use investments, developments in investment frameworks, and implications for legal empowerment approaches.
AgCAP has completed the sale of its initial Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) portfolio, which included the sale to institutional and private equity investors of SAF’s three cropping aggregations in Australia.
About 2.5 billion people around the globe, including 370 million indigenous people, depend on land and natural resources that are held, used, and managed collectively, meaning one third of the world’s population is vulnerable to dispossession by more powerful actors
