Sweden

Swedish pension fund to sell three Victorian dairy farms
- The Weekly Times
- 04 November 2024
A trio of dairy farms spanning a combined 570 hectares in the state’s north have been listed for sale after more than a decade in the hands of Swedish owners.
Swedish pension fund looking to offload $50m of WA farms
- AFR
- 25 August 2024
Swedish pension fund Forsta AP-fonden is downsizing its Australian farmland holdings after listing about $50 million of cropping properties in Western Australia’s Great Southern region.
Swedish fast food chain Max is offsetting its emissions - so we can eat burgers with a clear conscience
- Aftonbladet
- 04 May 2024
Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.
Who’s behind the destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado?
- Grist
- 28 February 2024
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price
Relatório “Os Invasores” revela empresas e setores por trás de sobreposições em terras indígenas
- De Olho Nos Ruralistas
- 19 April 2023
Levantamento inédito do observatório De Olho nos Ruralistas identificou 1.692 fazendas com incidência em território indígena; por trás das sobreposições estão gigantes do agronegócio, indústria armamentista e investidores dos cinco continentes
European pension managers go big for indoor ag as Equilibrium closes $1.1bn CEA fund
- AgFund News
- 08 July 2021
CEFF II raised $1 billion from a group of institutional investors, mostly pension funds, to invest in high-tech greenhouses, indoor, vertical farms, and other sectors that need controlled environment agriculture facilities.
Grimmway Farms finds a buyer in Indiana
- Bakersfield
- 29 November 2020
Indiana-based Teays River Investments has agreed to acquire family-owned Grimmway Farms – the self-proclaimed largest carrot producer in the world – for an undisclosed sum.
Swedbank 2007 Romania junk bond land scheme investigation closure appealed
- ERR
- 05 May 2020
Victims of an alleged 2007 land investment fraud scheme in Romania say they are going to the Office of the Prosecutor General with the case following the Police and Border Guard Board's decision not to launch a criminal investigation.
Sierra Leone bioenergy project poses new challenges to communities
- Swedwatch
- 28 Mar 2019
The Addax Bioenergy project continues to pose challenges to communities in Sierra Leone nine years after its start. In a new turn of events, the whole community of Tonka community has been informed it will be relocated.
Danish Ingleby becomes fourth largest farmland owner in Romania
- Romania Insider
- 29 June 2018
Ingleby group is owned by the Swedish billionaire family of Hans Rausing. The group exploited over 100,500 ha of land worldwide, of which 81,500 ha farmland and 7,261 ha forest.
Swedfund, FMO failed to respect human rights when exiting bioenergy project
- Swedwatch
- 08 November 2017
Swedwatch report shows how local communities were affected when the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone stalled and when development banks exited from the project without taking steps to protect that the rights of local communities.
Farmland investments are finding their way to international arbitration
- IISD
- 23 September 2017
Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.