The rise of Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly threatened the landless movement with violence, has residents of Amazon agrarian reform settlements deeply worried.

Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.

BrasilAgro, which is 40% owned by Argentina's Cresud, continues to clear land on its Chaparral farm in Correntina, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights

Warakirri says it is already managing discrete agricultural investments for super funds, but this new fund is being set up in response to demand from private family offices, high-net-worth and not-for-profit community

Declaration by the peasants’ movements and civil society organizations from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan at the 4th Triangular Peoples’ Conference against ProSAVANA in Tokyo

"They robbed our lands and set our houses on fire." A new video by Zwischenzeit and FIAN connects German companies and development banks to the displacement of Zambian farmers.

CFC Stanbic bank has been asked to explain a debt it is owed by struggling Naivasha-based Karuturi flower farm.

Between 2000-2011, 68% of all investigated foreign capital to 9 top companies in soy and beef sectors in the Brazilian Amazon was transferred through tax havens. Soy and beef production cause major Amazon deforestation.

On 18 November 2008, The Financial Times exposed a massive deal being negotiated between Daewoo Logistics and the government of Madagascar. Ten years later, what are we seeing?

The fight over a vinyard in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains illustrates the risks that Harvard’s endowment once embraced with its unusual strategy of investing directly in massive agriculture projects around the world.

Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector's massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.

A German state-owned bank has found itself at the centre of a battle in the Democratic Republic of Congo over agricultural land dating back to the Belgian colonial period

The communities of the DR Congo want a resolution to a land conflict that dates back to the Belgian colonial period with a palm oil company that is currently being financed by a consortium of European development banks led by DEG.

How can it be that finance centers in New York or Stockholm exercise control over lands in Northeastern Brazil?

Environmental rules and tighter restrictions on foreign ownership are denting dairy farm prices which have fallen more than 18 per cent.

Serbian farmlands that were recently cultivated, used and improved by 80 farming families are now being leased to UAE-based companies.

In order to facilitate private sector investment in agriculture, the Government of Zimbabwe will expedite issuance of bankable 99 year leases to allow farmers access to funding from financial institutions.

Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness

Farm and asset management company Gunn Agri announced it has finalized the acquisition of Abingdon Downs, a 484,000-hectare breeding property in Queensland, Australia from the Keough Cattle Company, for an undisclosed sum.

GRAIN recently learned that several cases of land grabbing have been prosecuted in the courts, or been acted upon by national authorities, and so we have compiled a short update on these developments.

Kenya's Court of Appeal is in December expected to determine if Karuturi will pay Sh1.8 billion contested debt to Stanbic Bank before the dispute before High Court is determined.

Despite all the hypocritical calls and posturing of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for ending hunger, they have facilitated, enabled, and led the global rush for landgrabs

Phoenix Fruits, a subsidiary of Phoenix Commodities, the global Indian agri-business giant, is in the process of securing several greenfield sites for fruit production in Kazakhstan

ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by providing 40 million $ loan to a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a statement released by Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overs.

The elite university has quietly become one of the largest owners of farmland in the world, according to a new report by GRAIN, an international nonprofit supporting small farmers, and Brazil-based Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos

Shanghai-based conglomerate Pengxin redirected the $US400 million it was prepared to pay for Australia's largest private land holding, S. Kidman & Co, into investments in Brazil after it was snubbed by then treasurer Scott Morrison in 2016.

Phatisa will continue its focus on the African food value chain – considering investments in mechanisation, inputs, poultry and meat production, food processing and manufacturing across sub-Saharan Africa.

“Domestic resources from African countries have to be supplemented by European resources, and that has to mean the private sector,” says Tom Arnold, who chairs the European Commission and African Union's joint Rural Taskforce.