Open Letter to the RSPO Board of Governors, RSPO Secretariat, Investigation and Monitoring Unit, Human Rights Working Group

In the palm oil industry, image control is a means of survival, and what is said can be even more nefarious than what is done.

Kenyan aquaculture company Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, has raised $5 million in private equity funding to expand operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and the DRC.

A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.

The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.

It is clear that natural capital markets and wider investor interest in carbon offsetting and green agendas are driving market interest in Scottish land and in particular land values for plantable land

Conforzi Plantation Limited has unveiled plans to invest $10 million in a 5,000 hectare irrigation scheme under Public Private Partnership arrangement to grow high-value crops.

The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.

Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda

From Sierra Leone to Nigeria, through Cameroon, Guinea and Ivory Coast, communities living near the industrial palm oil and rubber plantations of Socfin/Bolloré are fighting for their rights and against repression.

The dismissal of a petition signed by 1,475 community members objecting to the certification of Socfin Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil is an attempt to silence and criminalize opposition to the operation of SOCFIN in Sierra Leone

Land for Life Initiative, a civil society organization that advocates land rights, has issued a press statement calling on government to intervene and settle the land dispute between members of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC).