Greenpeace Netherlands is taking legal action to block the giant meat company's destructive expansion plans in Nigeria.

Supreme Court’s vote confirms that caps on farmland ownership apply not only to companies registered abroad, but also to Brazilian companies whose controlling shareholders are foreign.

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.

As Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf state's strategic farmland investments across Africa face a reality check

The 22,000-hectare Rushy Lagoon property has been a major dairy and beef producer for decades, but pine plantations could be in its near future, as UK's largest forestry asset manager has made a bid for it.

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.

A controversy over land in Kenya’s Rift Valley has captured public imagination and ignited debates about foreign investment, sovereignty, history, and geopolitics. At the centre of the controversy is a 520-acre agricultural and residential project developed by Israeli investor Erez Rivkin in Solai, Nakuru County.

FCC has convened a coalition of more than 20 investment organizations, including venture capital, private equity and Royal Bank of Canada. It will connect these investors to opportunities in land acquisition, manufacturing and new ag-tech startups, among other projects.

A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm

The project dreamt of transforming dunes of Cholistan into farmlands by contracting out vast tracts to private companies who were supposed to vanguard a corporate farming revolution. But the companies involved are disillusioned, with one foot already out the door.

Kernel, one of Ukraine’s largest agribusiness groups, has acquired a major agricultural holding with 41,000 hectares of farmland and a network of grain elevators, in a deal valued at over $100mn, the company confirmed this week.

This acquisition also acts to solidify Unifrutti’s position as a leading grape grower and exporter in the Southern Hemisphere, giving the company control of 4,300 hectares of table grape farms producing approximately 15 million boxes, or 120,000 metric tons of fruit per year.

An ASX-listed real estate funds manager has pulled off a second major farmland coup in as many weeks, snapping up a portfolio of 22 properties in an off-market deal.

Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose tighter restrictions by passing new laws or amending existing ones.

As African leaders, policymakers and researchers gather for the Sixth Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), civil society groups are issuing a powerful challenge to the dominant development model that treats African land as “vacant,” “underused,” and open for exploitation.

The Saskatchewan Government has made regulatory amendments to ensure Saskatchewan farm land is not owned by foreigners or corporations, and has removed an exemption that allowed the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to own land.

China and other nations are investing in African agriculture to diversify away from US trade, with China removing tariffs on imports from African countries with which it has diplomatic ties, and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates investing in farming and infrastructure.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr this week signed the law liberalising the lease of private lands by foreign investors., which aims to encourage investors to build industrial estates and factories as well as tourism and agriculture projects in the archipelago.

US investors have poured billions into Aussie farmland in recent years including many purchases made without FIRB scrutiny, leading some to question the current rules.

Sinohydro Group of China will invest more than $100 million in Angola to develop a 25-year, tax-free 30,000 hectare land concession to produce soybeans for export.

Farmland investors say a tax imposed uniquely by Queensland on foreign-owned agricultural land is having a “chilling effect” on new investment and prompting existing offshore investors to divest Queensland assets and replace them with investments in other states.

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.

A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.

Australian farmers aren’t the only ones cheering the rocketing price of almonds and beef from the simmering trade tensions between the US and China – a cohort of fund managers is also in the money.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is calling on the private sector to invest in the 336,000 hectares that the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority plans to complete to make the land suitable for agriculture.

Private equity firms — notorious for buying up private companies, often with the goal of selling them quickly — have lately accelerated their investments in California wineries, targeting famous Napa Valley estates.

Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.

Macquarie shopped ProTen as a $1 billion-plus infrastructure investment given its sprawling property portfolio – 62 broiler farms nationally and 720 poultry sheds, supplying to clients like Inghams.

The multinational conglomerate plans to develop a 5,000 hectares rice farm and a sugar factory to complement its existing sugarcane plantation in Jigawa State, as well as to expand into sesame and peanut production

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.