A Chinese-backed company’s dealings with a family were put under the blowtorch yesterday at the start of a Supreme Court trial into the collapse of an $8 million deal to buy farmland in Western Australia

Of the 600 hectares of farmland that KAI has cleared and prepared, roughly 250 hectares will be dedicated to the chia, with sweet sorghum to be planted next.

In 2013 NDC of Tanzania inked a deal with Nava Bharat Pte Ltd of Singapore (NBS) to put up an oil palm farm and processing plant. The joint venture agreement was valued at $111 million.

The government has tasked state-owned fertilizer maker Pupuk Indonesia to raise Rp 7 trillion ($534 million) to clear and develop 750,000 hectares of rice fields in Papua, a senior official said over the weekend.

A $250 million loan package is being prepared to support foreign investment in farms in Mindanao

Investigations reveal that 1,300 people are at risk of losing their land to make way for a sugarcane plantation, which is a flagship project of the G7’s initiative to increase agricultural investment in Africa.

NO PALM (Network Opposed to Oil Palm Plantations) established during National Oil Palm Conference held in Davao City on May 9-10 serve as a platform and stepping stone for a broad and strong mass movement against rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in the Philippines.

Following the uprisings in Cameroon and in Cambodia, the residents of villages neighboring the Socfin plantation in Liberia are mobilizing to confront the company this Saturday 16th of May.

Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi backed a deal in 2008 to lease 100,000 hectares of Mali’s best farmland. Terms of the agreement, and the contact itself, weren’t released publicly. Many wondered what the deal contained.

A new report on water for food security and nutrition shows how land, food and water issues are inextricably linked. This must be reflected in policymaking.

CSOs demand that consultations on the Master Plan of ProSAVANA be re-started with a new programme that eliminates the errors of the previous consultation.

The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment Land Administration Agency disclosed that it has provided over 2.3 million hectares of land for investors this Ethiopia fiscal year.