The Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026 grants the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States special investigatory powers to examine farmland owned or purchased by foreign entities
We need better land governance, better standards, and more transparency says the Land Matrix. We need to “put an end to offsetting as a false solution to the climate crisis — urgently” says GRAIN
Nigeria's BUA Group, which is developing a 20,000 ha sugarcane plantation and refinery, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding to explore collaboration in sugar refining, agro-industrial development, and integrated global logistics solutions with AD Ports Group and MAIR Group of Abu Dhabi.
In Sudan and Ethiopia, Gulf capital has targeted large-scale agricultural estates, livestock production, and agro-processing, often through joint ventures with local elites or state authorities.
Angola is granting roughly 60,000 hectares to Brazilian farmers in Cuanza-Norte province as part of a $120 million cooperation deal backed by BNDES, Banco do Brasil, and Angola’s sovereign wealth fund — more than 30 Brazilian agribusiness companies have already signed up
Charoen Pokphand Foods Philippines Corp. is pushing for a P500-million agro-industrial facility in Bataan. It is meant to help meet the increasing demand for poultry in the Philippines.
AgriTouch Group, in partnership with international agri-food company SanLucar, plans to establish a 180-hectare blueberry plantation in western Georgia.
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty says land, water, forests and oceans are increasingly concentrated in the hands of corporations and financial actors, driving dispossession, inequality and ecological collapse.
40 South Dairies, a dairy farming joint venture owned in part by the Washington State Investment Board, has emerged as the buyer of the Peltzer family's prized 2683 hectares Logan estate.
On February 14, the Agriculture Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with private firm COM'ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE to support its plan to develop 150,000 hectares of new rice-growing areas.
A wave of land disputes that began in eastern Uzbekistan has spread to Sirdaryo, where farmers say authorities are using courts, debt enforcement, and administrative pressure to shift farmland into a system that favors foreign, particularly Chinese, investors.
Critics in Suriname are speaking out against plans for a public-private partnership to develop 113,465 hectares of rainforest for industrial agriculture in the district of Nickerie.