Palm oil company DekelOil, which operates plantations and a mill in Ivory Coast, says it raised £700,000 through a share placing anchored by high profile Africa-focused fund Nubuke.
The CT Group has revealed plans to grow up to 10,000 hectares of dragon fruit in Australia's Northern Territory.
Real estate developer Yoma Strategic Holdings is ramping up its push into Myanmar, including in agriculture where it has formed a holding in which the World Bank's IFC holds 20%.
The Cambodian government and the European Union remained at odds last week over how to compensate families that have lost land to the country’s controversial sugar plantations and seemed to move closer to agreement on the need for an outside party to mediate.
A study commissioned by Aquila Capital reveals that institutional investors are to increase their direct ownership of real assets, including farmland, by 14%.
Saudi dairy company Almarai completed the purchase of 9,834 acres of farmland in Arizona, US, as part of its efforts to secure a supply of alfalfa hay from outside the Kingdom to support its dairy business.
Union Development Group continues to bulldoze the land of Koh Kong province families. Villagers say the company is breaking with its concession agreement by planting cassava instead of building a luxury resort.
Why the struggle to quantify the global land grabbing crisis is part of the problem.
Report describes and analyzes specific cases of land grabbing around the world within various socio economical contexts and with diverse social and environmental consequences .
Global Witness and SAMFU welcome the commitment by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to make any expansion by Equatorial Palm Oil onto Jogbahn Clan land dependent on the approval of the communities affected.
One month after the confrontation between land owners in southern Sierra Leone and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company, Green Scenery published a 13-page report on the clamp down on community members who have been advocating for their rights to their land.
Sunny Ajele, talks about how life for the communities in Edo State Nigeria has changed with the expansion of the oil palm plantations by a SOCFIN subsidiary
