Institutional investors are driving movement in Australia's poultry farm property market, underscoring sustained demand for agricultural assets that offer steady, passive income.

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.

A large contingent of policemen, including elite force personnel, were sent to subdue peasants protesting for two days against the government’s decision to reallocate 528 acres of their “ancestral land” — cultivated by them for nearly a century — to a private company.

In a rare move, Australia’s largest agricultural landholder by value, the mammoth Canadian pension fund PSP, has listed a significant cropping aggregation in southern Queensland for sale.

Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co., controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks on a transaction that would value Olam Agri Holdings at about $4 billion.

SALIC aspires to expand co-operation and investment in the Vietnamese market, especially in the production, processing and export of rice, along with animal feed, poultry, livestock and aquaculture.

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.

Ethiopia’s hopes of ushering in a new era of commercial farming ventures rested in large part on the shoulders of the Gambella Regional State. Recent years have seen hundreds of investors granted licenses and credit to establish commercial farms in the southwestern corner of the country, but little has come from the efforts.

The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of its 2,000 hectares rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area, as part of the 10,000 hectares initially earmarked for its food security programme

One of Arbonics' clients in Lithuania is INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II which has already planted around 200 hectares of mixed forest and 750,000 trees in total to earn carbon credits.

The new program “PSN Merauke”, being implemented at a high speed, might become the biggest deforestation project worldwide, is overlapping with customary lands and will directly affect 40,000 indigenous people.

This article and podcast tell the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.