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Mozambique: ProSavana implemented “by sword and fire”?
- DW
- 16 September 2017
“Full speed ahead with the ProSavana!” is the position of the Mozambican government, despite the agricultural project raising a chorus of criticism.
Papua New Guinea: SABL untold stories
- Act Now!
- 16 September 2017
Locals in Bewani, West Sepik Province are paid poorly for their labour on oil palm plantations by logging companies.
One hundred years later, reviving a ‘jewel’ deep in the jungle
- Bloomberg
- 16 September 2017
An obscure company’s quest to rebuild a century-old business could lead to the British stock exchange.
European Development Finance Institutions and land grabs: The need for further independent scrutiny
- FERN
- 16 September 2017
This study highlights the role of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in possible land grabs and questionable forestry projects in Africa.
Samsung won’t partner with Korindo following outrage over forest destruction in Indonesia
- Mongabay
- 14 September 2017
Under fire from watchdogs and consumers of its smartphones, Samsung said it would not pursue a joint venture with Korindo amid an NGO campaign highlighting Korindo’s rainforest destruction for palm oil in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua region.
Well-to-do investors plow cash into Canadian farmland
- Globe and Mail
- 13 September 2017
In Canada, surveying the land you own a share of, and talking crops with your farmer partner, might just be as close to real farming as many investors care to get.
AgDevCo supports banana production in Mozambique
- MacauHub
- 13 September 2017
The Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) has partnered with Nika SA, a Mozambican investment company, to recover a banana plantation by increasing its planted area and productivity
Caravana Matopiba uncovers alarming human and environmental costs of agribusiness 
- FIAN et al
- 12 September 2017
During its visits, the delegation observed high levels of agrochemical pollution, diminishing natural resources, land grabbing, as well as significant impact on the health of traditional communities, resulting from increasing soy plantations.
The oil economics and land-grab politics behind Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee crisis
- Quartz
- 12 September 2017
Since the 1990s, military juntas have been taking away the land of smallholders across the country, without any compensation and regardless of ethnicity or religious status.
40% of agricultural land in Romania belongs to foreign investors
- Romania Insider
- 11 September 2017
Foreigners hold 5.3 million hectares of farmland in Romania, as the total agricultural land amounts to 13.3 million hectares.
The palm oil crisis in Nigeria - and beyond
- Ecologist
- 08 September 2017
In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc.
Communities affected by Hengfu sugar plantation in Cambodia submit petition to Chinese Embassy
- GRAIN
- 07 September 2017
On 30 August 2017, 40 people brought a petition to Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh calling for the withdrawal of sugar company Hengfu, that accused for grabbing tens of thousands of families land since 2011.