BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group announced that it has raised $370 million in commitments for its newest core Latin America strategy, focused on large-scale, sustainably managed, core timberland assets across Chile, Uruguay and Brazil that generate carbon credits.

Canadian farmland investment manager Invictus Farmland has partnered with Calgary-based financial services firm Pinnacle Wealth to launch Invictus Farmland Fund I, an investment vehicle that is built upon a farmer-first structure for accredited investors seeking exposure to Canadian farmland.

A mammoth Canadian pension fund, PSP Investments, has listed 4200 hectares of prime NSW agricultural land for sale across six Central West properties.

FarmTogether is now offering exposure to one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. permanent cropland with the launch of Riviera Avocado Grove, the firm’s first expansion into avocado production.

Initial review found no instances of unauthorized foreign ownership of farm land

A year after the World Bank approved a plan to redress community grievances over inadequate compensation and sexual harassment at Liberia’s Salala Rubber Corporation, a progress report provides little evidence that any of its key commitments have been implemented.

The Brazilian Supreme Court is one vote away from vetoing the acquisition of land by foreigners or Brazilian companies with foreign shareholding control

Mykhailo Hranchak, Managing Director of the Investment Banking Department at Dragon Capital, on how M&A in the agricultural sector is changing, who is shaping demand in the market today, and why

The company is said to have acquired several pork farming assets from Novgorod-based Adept Group, including a multi-breeding facility, a feedlot, commercial farms, and small plots of land.

US and Canadian pension fund managers have submitted multiple bids for Australia’s $3bn Paraway Pastoral empire, and its vendors are assessing offers for the 4.4 million hectare agricultural business.

With tilapia farms on Lake Victoria in Kenya and Lake Kivu in Rwanda, Victory Group will use the financing from AgDevCo to support the group’s next phase of expansion including multiple new farms in Kenya and Rwanda.

The negative impacts of oil palm plantations promoted by India's national policy to increase national oil palm production are already being felt in three villages in the state of Manipur, where the area are targeted for the plantation. The turmoil it is creating at the plantation villages indicates a departure from the indigenous ways of land governance and relations to a system designed to cater to a corporate economic system.