The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.

O grupo colombiano Daabon anunciou a compra, em parceria com investidores brasileiros, de 100% das operações da Agropalma, detida pela Apar, holding da família Faria

L’association Terre de liens alerte sur le fait que « 70 % des exploitations agricoles en France sont en réalité des firmes agro-industrielles, en filière longue, majoritairement orientées vers le commerce international ».

The 636-hectare portfolio, to be named Bunya Orchards, includes 341 hectares of established, high density macadamia orchards and 50 hectares of grazing land earmarked for greenfield macadamia development.

The two private equity funds, backed by European development banks, sell Zambia’s largest table-egg producer and large-scale farm operator to the Belgian family-owned Vanden Avenne Group.

The agricultural land market in Ukraine crossed the symbolic milestone of one million hectares, since July 2021, when the sale and purchase of land were legalized.

Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura said that the expansion would lead to corporate exploitation of oil palm leaseholders and growers and to land grabbing from peasants and Indigenous peoples.

The government has ordered two subcontracting firms operating within the Liberian Agriculture Company (LAC) concession to pay thousands of US dollars in retroactive wages to more than 500 workers, following an investigation that uncovered years of minimum wage violations.

At the centre of the company’s rollout strategy is a 400-acre estate in Kogi State, where individual investors acquire one-acre parcels priced at ₦6 million.

As a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 600,000 hectares of land owned by agri-food companies from the TOP-100 ranking are in territories controlled by the Russian army.

The Kempen SDG Farmland Fund has expanded its Pacific Northwest presence through the acquisition of two blueberry operations: the Pan American farm in Oregon and the Othello farm in Washington state.

À ce jour, environ 100 000 hectares ont déjà été mis à disposition d’investisseurs, principalement via des baux de location longue durée