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We must recognize and stop the growing takeover of forest, grassland, and farmland by powerful financial actors, which is being perpetrated in the name of new myths of false solutions to climate change.

The attorney general of the US state of Arizona is set to launch legal proceeding in the next two weeks against the Saudi dairy company Almarai over groundwater pumping on two farms in the state.

Entre enero y agosto de 2024, inversores extranjeros, principalmente de Estados Unidos, Japón, Brasil y Argentina, adquirieron 135.888 hectáreas de tierras agrícolas uruguayas.

Irrigation projects include a US$172mn, 23,000ha project with US-based Valley Irrigation , a €75mn, 13,000 ha project with Spain's Grupo Charmatin, and a US$100mn, 20,000 ha project with US-based Lindsay Zimmatic.

There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of particular interest to institutional asset owners. But just because something is a natural investment does not always mean it is good for the environment. Or that it is a good investment.

TIAA is the world’s largest landgrabber, having acquired over 3 million acres of land in a little over a decade, often in places impacted by land-related violence, such as Brazil, Colombia, and in the United States, Phillips County Arkansas.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will add 46 farms covering 41,554 acres — or about 65 square miles — in eight US states to its vast portfolio, further bolstering its standing as an agricultural “titan.”

Il est désormais clair qu’African Agriculture ne tiendra pas ses promesses de « développement » de la région. Sur son lit de mort, l’entreprise doit restituer ses terres aux communautés du Sénégal, du Niger et de Mauritanie.

The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.

The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.

Profiteering companies are lining up to buy water rights in the western US as the water supply dwindles.

Google will buy 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Mombak, which purchases degraded land from farmers and ranchers or partners with them to replant native species in the Amazon rainforest