AP Pension’s agriculture investments more than doubled in net income, partly due to a higher land value. The pension firm has noticed an increased interest in land from other actors as well.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land.

Across the region, people have been harassed, threatened and criminally charged in retaliation for opposing land and water grabs linked to mining, dams and industrial agriculture, cementing the region’s ranking as one of the world’s most perilous for environmental and land rights defenders.

Harvard, Saudi Arabia and The Vanguard Group are just a few of the investors who have been buying up Ukrainian land en masse, while many Ukrainian farmers argue it should stay in Ukrainian hands.

Local ranchers, joined by Harvard students, oppose university’s plans to build reservoirs at Its large vineyard in California.

‘Non-traditional’ farmland buyers help drive up prices, highlighting tight land supplies across Canada

As Mennonite colonies continue to expand, so too are their massive crop fields, which are putting pressure on Santa Cruz’s Indigenous Territories and other protected areas.

In recent years, the Ethiopian government has been enthusiastically renting large swathes of its territory to both local and foreign investors, regardless of who is already living there.

Murder attempts, death threats, harassment, deforestation, and land grabbing attempts: that is what the beginning of 2023 was like in the territories of rural communities in the Cerrado of the state of Piauí.

Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.

The Beligian retail company Colruyt Group has recently started buying its own farmland to produce foods for its supermarkets.