The Nubian Desert in north-eastern Sudan might not be anyone’s idea of promising farmland, but the Agriculture Investment Holding Company (Ethmar) Ltd, a joint venture between Royal Group of Abu Dhabi and DAL Group, Sudan’s biggest conglomerate, is investing $225m to change all that on over 105,000 hectares.

Depuis l’invasion russe en février 2022, la guerre en Ukraine est au centre des questions de politique étrangère et des médias. Cependant, peu d’attention a été accordée à une question majeure qui est au cœur du conflit : qui contrôle les terres agricoles dans le pays connu comme le « grenier de l’Europe » ?

Illegal oil palm plantations spanning an area one and a half times the size of London have been amnestied under an Indonesian government program that critics say incentivizes corporations over small farmers.

Kilter Rural launches a $333.7 mln agriculture fund that will buy and develop 21,000 hectares of farmland in Southeastern Australia, creating biodiversity and carbon credits in the process.

Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.

En la Amazonia colombiana, como en la brasileña, aumenta el acaparamiento de tierras para la ganadería extensiva e industrial

TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents show they ignored a litany of red flags when buying farms in a region long known for land grabbing.

En la Cámara de Diputados brasileña, hegemonizada por la oposición al presidente Lula da Silva, se creó una Comisión Parlamentaria de Investigación para investigar las ocupaciones de tierras supuestamente promovidas y dirigidas por el Movimiento de los trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST).

In the latest deal, private equity-backed Stone Axe Pastoral has acquired the Moyhu Wagyu aggregation in Victoria’s King Valley from tax reform pioneer Bob Officer for about $25 million.

Tres principales gestoras - Sembrador Capital, Toesca y Credicorp - se han adentrado en este negocio para aprovechar los beneficios del sector, que proyecta rentabilidades de hasta 12%.

Worsening drought has focused new attention on a Saudi-owned dairy company and whether Arizona should be doing more to protect its groundwater resources.

Fund II invests on a global scale in production assets across a range of crop types including coffee, almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, and olive oil.

Work is underway to boost cultivation area by five times to reach 1,900 hectares

Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.

Le 13 avril 2023, les populations du village Apouh à Ngog situé dans l’arrondissement d’Edéa 1er, département de la Sanaga-Maritime, région du Littoral, ont paralysé les activités de production à l’usine de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Edéa.

There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.

The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya

The Ondo State government has forcibly evicted over 10,000 farmers from the Oluwa Forest Reserve in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to make way for a large-scale plantation project by SAO Group.

Levantamento inédito do observatório De Olho nos Ruralistas identificou 1.692 fazendas com incidência em território indígena; por trás das sobreposições estão gigantes do agronegócio, indústria armamentista e investidores dos cinco continentes

Campesinos y campesinas de Honduras exigen aprobación del Decreto de Emergencia sobre el acceso y legalización de las tierras como una medida para contrarrestar el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de empresarios nacionales e internacionales.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.

Aparece ante nosotros la clara imagen de la bifurcación entre mundos y no cabe la menor duda de cuál de ellos debe extinguirse. Las últimas movilizaciones populares en Francia de les Soulèvements de la Terre (los levantamientos de la Tierra) contra el acaparamiento de tierras y aguas, nos anuncian un giro drástico en este combate.

Kilter Rural was recently awarded a US$50m mandate from a large US financial institution to invest in Australian agriculture.

Sur le manque d’espaces vitaux, les populations de la Sanaga Maritime reprochent à l’exploitant, de s’être accaparé des aires propices à leurs activités de survie quotidienne, l’agriculture de subsistance et les aires pastorales notamment.

As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.

The Korean corporation POSCO International is in talks with the government of Uzbekistan for a US$196 million textile investment, that includes lands for the cultivation of cotton.

A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.

Une étude sur les observatoires fonciers en Afrique

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

Ministry of Agriculture will finance state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production even as the government seeks to lease out more chunks of unutilised farms to the private sector.