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Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

Prima Wawona, the one-time largest peach producer in the world, financially rotted in the few years after private equity players took control. A former owner wants to know how.

The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a fourth major Aussie cropping aggregation.

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.

El periodista Jack Thompson investiga el caso del fallido proyecto agrícola de African Agriculture en Niéti Yone, Senegal, una historia que comienza con ambición, promesas de empleo y desarrollo... y acaba con deudas, tierras improductivas y una comunidad fracturada.

Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.

The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.

Pese a la ofensiva arancelaria de Donald Trump, el sector agrícola de España y Portugal sigue acaparando el interés de los fondos nacionales e internacionales, a los que se ha sumado un actor especialmente relevante: Farmland Reserve, una compañía de inversiones dependiente de la Iglesia mormona que se alza como el quinto mayor propietario institucional de tierras agrícolas de Estados Unidos, con cerca de 690.000 hectáreas en el país norteamericano.

Australia-based Costa Group has launched a new blueberry farming project on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos, starting with 17 hectares of crops at Paksong.

Vermont Pension Investment Commission, Montpelier, committed $35 million to U.S. Core Farmland Fund on behalf of the $6.8 billion Vermont State Retirement Systems.

The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to plant trees on 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas

Through its two carbon credit agreements with Microsoft, the company will work on restoring a total of 33,000 hectares of land in parts of the Amazon and Atlantic forests.