The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya

The Ondo State government has forcibly evicted over 10,000 farmers from the Oluwa Forest Reserve in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to make way for a large-scale plantation project by SAO Group.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.

Kilter Rural was recently awarded a US$50m mandate from a large US financial institution to invest in Australian agriculture.

As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.

The Korean corporation POSCO International is in talks with the government of Uzbekistan for a US$196 million textile investment, that includes lands for the cultivation of cotton.

A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

Ministry of Agriculture will finance state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production even as the government seeks to lease out more chunks of unutilised farms to the private sector.

In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.

The fund acquired the farmland and forest plots through its subsidiaries Zemvalde Forest and Zemvalde Agro.

What are sovereign wealth funds? What link, if any, do they have with people’s struggles around food sovereignty, landgrabbing and today’s deepening climate crisis?