Poor planning and ignoring advice of indigenous groups resulted in flooding, failed crops and left behind arid, barren land that could exacerbate the climate crisis
The Japanese insurer has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp
On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia
Farmers in the El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme are considering forming a union to address land issues, seven years after the Farmers Union was disbanded by the Al Bashir regime in Sudan.
Small farmers in the US are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers.
A mediation process is unlikely to address long-lasting tensions and tenure issues that arise when ‘development’ projects on public lands take over large tracts of ancestral land
At least eight states in the US considered implementing a new limit on foreign control of agricultural land, and one, Indiana, passed a new law limiting new investment by foreign companies
In September 2022, two large contingents of national police and military were dispatched to oil palm plantation concession areas of the Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) in Lokutu and Boteka.
The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.
Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South under a compromise arrangement backed by Zimbabawe government.
The first phase of Agroberries’ strategy in Morocco includes the planting of 300 hectares of blueberries in three different regions.
For more than a decade, some Bunong villagers have been trying to reclaim and gain legal recognition for their customary land that have been acquired by Luxembourg-based Socfin Group’s subsidiaries since 2007. Some details of the settlement were released this September, in a joint statement issued by the firms and community representatives who negotiated on behalf of 210 families in five villages.
