"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”
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 Forsta AP-fonden is downsizing its Australian farmland holdings after listing about $50 million of cropping properties in Western Australia’s Great Southern region.
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.
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
