How US pension fund TIAA purchased farmland with a legacy of racism and murder

A partnership between UAE agribusiness, Al Dahra, and Danish climate agtech company, Agreena, will see the largest consolidated arable farm in the European Union transition to regenerative agriculture.

US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

La concession économique de 42.000 hectares a été accordée en 2011, et pour une durée de 70 ans, à cinq entreprises chinoises appartenant toutes au même conglomérat, le Hengfu Group Sugar Industry. Douze ans plus tard, les souvenirs malheureux des évictions sont plus amers que jamais pour les habitants de Preah Vihear : pas rentable et mal financé, le projet agricole a périclité.

British sugar company Tate & Lyle enriched itself off the harvest of stolen land. More than 12,000 Cambodians have been forced off their land, leaving them to suffer through years of destitution.

En Senegal, una empresa de inversión llamada African Agriculture Inc. está cultivando alfalfa rica en proteínas dentro de la Reserva de Vida Silvestre de Ndiael, utilizando agua del lago Guiers, la única reserva de agua dulce del país

Le 22 novembre, les agriculteurs et sympathisants de l’Union nationale des fermiers sont venus manifester devant le parlement d’Ottawa pour demander d’interdire au Canada l’achat de terres agricoles par des investisseurs corporatifs.

‘The Gecko Project’ asegura que varias multinacionales trabajan con First Resources, un proveedor supuestamente sostenible acusado de talar 95.000 hectáreas de bosque en el último lustro

African Agriculture Inc., une société d'investissement basée dans un espace de travail partagé Regus au neuvième étage de Park Avenue à New York, cultive 300 hectares (740 acres) de luzerne vert émeraude à l'est de Saint-Louis dans une réserve naturelle désertique appelée le Ndiael. La ferme tire son eau du lac de Guiers voisin, alimenté par un canal venant de la rivière. Seule réserve d'eau douce du Sénégal, le lac fournit la moitié de l'eau de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal.

Impact Ag Partners recently joined SLM Partners to launch the SLM Agri Carbon Fund – a new investment vehicle to back regenerative agriculture and carbon storage in Australia.

The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.

The Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo will plant 40,000 hectares with trees to combat greenhouse gas emissions and pursue an agroforestry plantation on another 10,000 hectares in the Batéké Plateaux

Surexport has just announced its completion of three acquisitions: Portuguese raspberry producer Solana; Moroccan blueberry producer AG Group; and Spanish producer of organic berries Flor De Doñana.

Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.

A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.

Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.

The Supreme Court of India has cancelled anticipatory bail granted to Ram Karuturi who is accused of defaulting on a US$6.5 million loan taken in 2011 from the government of Djibouti to develop 15,000 ha of agricultural land

Local communities near Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) in Margibi County are seemingly winning a case of ‘land grab’ and ‘gross human rights violations’ brought against SRC; as its parent company, Bollore Group has been blacklisted by Switzerland’s largest public pension funds.

Colombia está demorada en tener un marco regulatorio estatal de la extranjerización y acaparamiento de tierras, indicó la ministra de Agricultura, Jhenifer Mojica

La députée de Verdun et responsable de Québec solidaire en matière d’Agriculture a présenté le projet de loi 495 afin de lutter contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles et mieux protéger la relève agricole.

Terra est une société de l’indo-canadien Rahim Dhrolia qui dispose dans le Haut-Katanga, en République Démocratique du Congo, d’au moins 10 mille hectares de terre consacrés à l’agriculture, dont 2 mille seulement ont été exploités cette année

Concrètement, les épargnants acquerraient des terres agricoles qui seraient ensuite données à bail à long terme à un agriculteur dans le cadre du statut du fermage

The Communities who were contending over the equity distribution of ground rent by the owner of the estate, Wing Song M-House, finally reached a mutual understanding after a series of previous engagements with the ministry.

Behind a process to transfer land and hand over 14,173 hectares to three villages stands Landesa, a land rights organization that designed the modality of the transfer process and coordinated the negotiations.

China will launch the Plan for China Supporting Africa's Agricultural Modernization to help Africa expand grain plantation and encourage Chinese companies to increase agricultural investment in Africa.

Au Nigeria, le gouvernement de l’Etat d’Ogun cherche à mobiliser 20 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans les localités de Yewa north et d’Imeko-Afon pour l’installation d’une rizière.

Koh Kong provincial court in Cambodia convicted ten land activists on Tuesday of incitement to commit serious social disorder and malicious denunciation and sentenced them to one year in prison plus a total fine of 40 million riels to be paid to the plaintiff, tycoon Heng Huy.

Mitsui & Co. has invested US$360 million through a Singapore-based holding company in Ecuador-based Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila (IPSP), which controls 18,000 hectares of farming ponds.

Dans le sud-est du Mexique, des milliers de ruches sont mortes ces dernières années. Les apiculteurs mayas, qui blâment l’usage massif des produits chimiques, s’élèvent contre l’agro-industrie qui accapare les terres.