A Riyadh private equity firm established by a Saudi royal is joining forces with Canadian asset manager Cordiant Group to set up two funds worth $5 billion for agricultural investments across the GCC and globally.

En un raro acuerdo, el gobierno cubano entrega el control de 1.000 hectáreas a una empresa extranjera. La empresa asiática Agri VMA cultivará arroz por tres años vendiendo su paquete tecnológico, como semillas híbridas y pesticidas, mientras Cuba obtiene ingresos por el alquiler de la tierra y la sustitución de importaciones.

Beijing AgriFam Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of China's CITIC Group, has formally committed USD $73 million towards the development of advanced feedlot infrastructure in Botswana.

In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

Sembilan pelapor khusus PBB telah mengirimkan surat kepada pemerintah Indonesia dan perusahaan PT Global Papua Abadi meminta tanggapan dari kedua pihak atas dugaan pelanggaran HAM dan lingkungan hidup dalam pengembangan perkebunan pangan dan energi skala luas melalui Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke. Lebih dari 630.000 ha akan diubah jadi lahan tebu, pengolahan gula dan produksi bioetanol dan lebih dari satu juta hektare akan dijadikan lahan sawah dan perkebunan tanaman lainnya.

The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) has raised an alarm over the alleged illegal occupation of 6,000 hectares of farmland in Ipao-Ekiti by the Agbeyewa Group of Companies, accusing the Ekiti State Government of fraudulently reallocating land that the association legally acquired.

La Synaparcam, une association de riverains des plantations Socapalm au Cameroun, réagit à une réponse de la Socfin publiée par la Business and Human Rights Research Centre.

El Boletín Nyéléni 60 llama la atención para una nueva oleada de «acaparamientos verdes» impulsada por los mercados del carbono y la biodiversidad - cerca del 20% de los acuerdos actuales de compraventa de tierras a gran escala están vinculados a la bioeconomía. También destaca el programa de FMI de privatización de tierras públicas en Siri Lanka.

A civil society group closely monitoring developments at the 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation welcomed the call for a temporary suspension of its activities.

Swiss-based Harvest Group SA, through its subsidiary Harvest Agro Holding, has announced an investment of half a billion dollars to develop as much as 300,000 hectares of pastureland across rural Kazakhstan into productive agricultural land

Officials of UK-based Rainforest Builder say they will restore 2,000 hectares of degraded forest—double what they planted last year.

Canarias negocia un acuerdo con la multinacional emiratí Al Dahra Agricultural Company, que según organizaciones "Se trata de un modelo que entrega tierras y agua, escasas y disputadas en un archipélago que ya depende de 90% de importaciones"

La lutte contre le changement climatique et les politiques de transition énergétique génèrent, paradoxalement, de nouvelles formes d’accaparement de terres.

Derrière des achats discrets, parfois opaques, se joue un bouleversement majeur du modèle agricole breton.