Subsidiária do conglomerado estatal chinês Citic projeta plantar 100 mil ha de soja e milho em Angola, com 60% para exportação, para garantir o abastecimento de longo prazo em meio à guerra comercia. 8 mil ha já foram desmatados

Despite a track record of financing linked to land grabbing and deforestation, agricultural investment funds, or Fiagros, have been cleared by Brazil’s Monetary Council to receive up to 10% of pension fund assets

Citic Construction Co. will invest $250 million over five years to develop as much as 100,000 hectares of land, according to Fan Juntao, the managing director of the company in Angola.

One of the country's biggest agricultural landholders is set to hit the auction block after Macquarie Asset Management told investors it would take its Paraway Pastoral Company to market after 17 years of ownership.

Mardi 8 juillet, plusieurs membres du gouvernement américain ont annoncé leur volonté d’interdire aux investisseurs chinois l’acquisition de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, invoquant un enjeu de sécurité nationale. Trump semble avoir également dans le viseur les actuels propriétaires.

Sudan proposed a trilateral partnership to combine Sudan’s fertile land, Pakistan’s agricultural expertise, and Saudi investment to launch impactful joint ventures.

Community land Rights defender Olupot James and his wife Apio Sarah are amongst a few remaining families that resisted the Kiryandongo Sugar Limited's violent eviction and repression.

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record

The companies said the two separate projects will plant 11 million trees across 8,000 hectares

Crypto powerhouse Tether, the world's largest digital assets company, is leveraging its recent acquisition of a South American agricultural firm to make a strategic play for the multi-trillion dollar a year global commodities trade.

Proterra's Asia Food Fund 3 is backing a greenfield blueberry cultivation project in the southern Paksong district, Laos with Mekong Blue Singapore.

British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, today announced a €30 million investment in MHP, Ukraine’s leading agribusiness.

The meeting focused on strategic projects aimed at boosting food security and modernising agriculture in Libya. Both sides discussed proposals for large-scale initiatives involving advanced technologies and public-private partnerships.

The Norrenberger Financial Group has disclosed that it plans to cultivate 1,000 hectares of arable land in Kano State as part of its support towards boosting food production and ensuring food security in the country.

In May this year, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni began producing agri-feedstock with other edible crops, such as sunflower and soy, which could have a negative impact on local food security.

One of the country’s biggest milk producers – backed by the Rich Lister Perich family and China’s New Hope Group – has sold one of its major farms in Victoria’s north for close to $55 million.

The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) jointly raised their concerns over the alleged state sponsored push for corporate farming, widespread land grabbing, and the forced eviction of peasants from lands they have cultivated for generations.

Ghana is partnering with Onesta Ghana Ltd to launch the Redgold Oil Palm Plantation Project, which will cover 10,000 hectares

Standard Bank Namibia has invested N$40 million into a large-scale blueberry farming initiative by Namibia Berries, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Loxworth Capital

When Microsoft announced a 10-year carbon removal deal with US forestry credits firm Aurora, some people with a Bristol, UK pension pool were paying close attention.

La Chine a condamné mercredi les mesures envisagées par l'administration américaine pour interdire aux investisseurs chinois d'acquérir des terres agricoles américaines, dénonçant une pratique «discriminatoire».

Washington compte «prendre rapidement des mesures législatives et exécutives pour interdire l'acquisition de terres agricoles américaines aux ressortissants chinois et à d'autres adversaires étrangers», a affirmé la ministre de l'Agriculture Brooke Rollins

The US Department of Agriculture will work with state lawmakers to end farmland purchases "by nationals for countries of concern or other foreign adversaries".

Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman has announced that Indonesia will co-manage 20 thousand hectares of land with Palestine to grow rice and horticultural crops, and send the majority of the produce to the Middle Eastern nation.

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation owns more than 540,000 acres of land in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, making it the single largest owner of foreign agricultural land in the US state.

A Socfin spokesperson told Mongabay that the collective statement by civil society offers a “broad brush overview” that “understates both the calibrated nature of the EF findings and the tangible progress we have already made.”

Emmanuel Elong, Président de la Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun, souligne que le cabinet Earthworm Foundation, qui a mené l'enquête, « est incapable de faire changer la politique de Socfin ».

Bracell, uma das maiores produtoras de celulose solúvel do mundo, detém mais de 230 mil ha, principalmente no estado da Bahia, região do Matopiba no Brasil, está sendo investigada por violar os limites da lei de acesso à terras por estrangeiros e à lei ambiental.

KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Aware Super, a leading Australian super fund, announced the signing of definitive agreements under which funds managed by KKR will acquire ProTen Pty Limited (“ProTen”), one of the largest agricultural infrastructure businesses in Australia.

Depuis des décennies, les communautés riveraines des plantations du groupe Socfin dénoncent les pratiques abusives de l'entreprise, qui vont de l'accaparement des terres à la violence sexuelle. Aujourd'hui, leurs plaintes ont été validées par une source surprenante : les propres consultants rémunérés de Socfin, qui ont conclu que la plupart des plaintes sont au moins partiellement fondées et que la grande majorité des abus sont de la responsabilité de l'entreprise.