Phatisa has already invested $84 million into nine projects in seven African countries, ranging from palm oil in Sierra Leone and the DRC, to poultry farming in Zambia.
New WRM video based on interviews with people from communities in Africa affected by the expansion of oil palm plantations.
The US's Millennium Challenge Corporation says it is helping Burkina Faso to improve its land ownership legislation to protect rural land owners from unfair deals that have seen wealthy buyers acquire vast tracts of land.
Brazil has authorized the sale of farmland to foreigners for the first time since 2010, when the country's attorney general imposed limits on foreign land control in one of the world's top producers of agricultural commodities.
The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails
Land acquisitions, whether to produce food, biofuels, or other crops, raise questions about who will benefit. Even if some of these projects can dramatically boost land productivity, will local people gain from this?
Internally displaced Colombians face killings and widespread death threats for attempting to reclaim their land, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Cima Coffee Farms this week announced it has officially launched as a standalone real estate concern dedicated to the sales of prime agricultural property
A journalist's visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities.
An EU trade initiative intended to reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries has driven thousands of Cambodian farming families into destitution and led to serious human rights violations, says new report
A massive New Zealand farm the size of Christchurch has been sold to a North American investment group.
Saudi ag minister says his government is positioning itself as a facilitator for the Saudi private sector, seeking land and agricultural investments, and providing funds, credit, and logistics.
