Entities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are directing large commitments to the farmland space, Investable Universe reports.

Companies from countries across the world have acquired fertile Nile-irrigated land for growing food crops, non-food agricultural commodities such as alfalfa, flowers, tobacco, and biofuels, rearing livestock and logging trees.

Serbia has neither clear rules of the game nor a development strategy for the agricultural sector, which is why the government confuses itself with Gulf State investors in secret meetings and makes real deals under the grain.

CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.

Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy government to farm 60 000 ha in the Lower Mangoky region of southwest Madagascar, for the local market and for export

The government initially planned to allow foreigners to buy farmland from 2024, but Zelensky, under pressure from opponents, has promised a referendum on this.

Memorandum du « Mouvement Citoyen contre l’Accaparement et l’Aliénation des Terres du WALO »

Hoy, las comunidades de Ndiaël que lucharon contra Senhuile desde que ésta llegó, siguen ahí. Para ellas, nada ha cambiado. Informe de una visita de campo de GRAIN y Enda Pronat.

Aujourd’hui, les communautés du Ndiaël qui ont combattu Senhuile depuis son arrivée sont toujours là. Pour elles, rien n’a changé. Compte-rendu d'une visite sur le terrain.

Today, the communities of the Ndiaël that fought Senhuile since it arrived are still there. For them, nothing has changed.

Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration

Brazil’s Federal Police have launched an investigation, dubbed “Operation Far West,” to crack down on an alleged massive land grab by an agribusiness collective in western Bahia, one of Brazil’s largest soy producing regions.

A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading Canada into a new era of speculation on farmland -- one where private companies not traditionally involved in agriculture are acquiring tracks of land.

NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in the Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations to publicly issue a clear statement of support for the mediation process and to ensure the security of participating community members.

Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to remove a ban on the sale of farmland for the first time in nearly two decades, a move supported by the country’s foreign backers that risks a political backlash.

Le tribunal français « invite » chaque paysan à communiquer avant le 20 janvier 2020 « tout document officiel établissant l’existence, la nature, la localisation, la surface exacte et le référencement de la ou des terres dont il est demandé la restitution », « tout document notarié, individualisé et officiel établissant la propriété de chacun sur la ou les terres revendiquées » et « tout document justifiant de l’état civil de chacun ».

Eighty Bunongs farmers from Mondol Kiri, a province in the east of Cambodia – who are accusing the French industrialist Vincent Bolloré of grabbing their lands in 2008 to make way for rubber plantations, will have to prove their identity and show land titles by 20 January 2020 according to an order issued on 8 November by French court.

With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.

Consistent interest from Saudi Arabia in direct investment in foreign agriculture, such as SALIC's recent purchase of 200,000 ha in Western Australia, will continue.

With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.

The government’s plans to open up the land market are stirring fears that Ukraine’s coveted black earth will be bought up by foreigners, including Russians. Report from Associated Press.

Tenemos pruebas de que los incendios del Cerrado también están vinculados a otros intereses financieros con sede en Estados Unidos: el Fondo de Dotación de la Universidad de Harvard y el TIAA, el fondo de pensiones privado que invierte en nombre de millones de profesores, académicos, enfermeras y trabajadores del gobierno en todo el país.

Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.

The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm plantations in local communities. But the local communities are not welcoming these plantations. They want their land back.

Central Kalimantan provincial government in Indonesia agrees to cooperate with Elite Agro LLC of UAE to develop agriculture and plantation sector. As initial step, government will prepare 5,000 hectares of land for the agriculture project.

Terra Firma, founded by British multi-millionaire Guy Hands, has owned CPC since 2009 when it paid James Packer and partners about $425m for what was then a 5.6m hectare estate.

French lawyer Fiodor Rilov's account the lawsuit brought by Bunong communities from eastern Cambodia against Bolloré group.

Depuis 2015, des agriculteurs demandent la restitution de terres ancestrales, cédées à une filiale du milliardaire. Mardi, une délégation s’était déplacée au tribunal de Nanterre pour une audience.

Eighty indigenous farmers are suing the Bolloré group and its subsidiaries for having grabbed their ancestral lands

Nine representatives of the Bunong indigenous communities in Cambodia who claimed to be victim to plantation project by French company Socfin-KCD appeared for questioning at the Tribunal of Nanterre in France.