A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella

Minerva is 35% owned by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company, which already has 211,000 hectares of farmland and two mutton processing plants in Western Australia.

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.

Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.

The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.

Rising interest rates and higher production costs have failed to dent the appetite for prime livestock stations as demand from cashed-up farming families looking to expand outweighs a limited supply of properties for sale.

A claim circulating on social media that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sold off 17 million hectares of farmland to US corporations is baseless.

Macquarie Asset Management is stepping up its investment in farmland, taking control of Cowal Agriculture, a cropping enterprise affiliated with US-based Global Endowment Management.

Foreign investors in Australian rural property now pay up to $1 million in fees when applying to buy farmland or commercial agribusiness assets.

Chinese agribusiness giant, New Hope Group, has moved to buy itself a comfortable majority share of the big Australian Fresh Milk Holdings dairy farming business.

There will be plenty more scuffles between local populations and new global landlords. But, according to the Financial Times, such fights are unlikely to stem the tide of land investment.

Australian farmland manager Gunn Agri Partners has acquired 6,000 hectares of land for its Transforming Farming Platform, which is backed by the Dutch asset manager Kempen.

Australian farmland manager Gunn Agri Partners has acquired 6,000 hectares of land for its Transforming Farming Platform, backed by the Australian government-owned clean energy finance corporation and Dutch asset manager Kempen.

Green Sea Agriculture Co Ltd's plantation currently covers a total area of 1,200 ha, and it plans to invest an additional $500 million to expand mango cultivation and export the fruit to the Chinese market on a large scale

When the ABC's Vote Compass asked whether the federal government should further restrict foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land, 88 per cent of voters said they "somewhat" or "strongly" agreed that it should.

Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.

Created specifically for domestic and offshore institutional investors, the fund has already secured significant cornerstone funding from one of the largest pension funds in Europe

When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.

Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.

A joint venture between Australia's Warakirri Asset Management and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired a grain growing aggregation in Riverina, Australia for more than $55 million

Australia’s richest person believes foreign ownership of Australian farmland should be capped at a maximum of 49 per cent to protect against breakdowns in international relations.

US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.

A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board has maintained a single-minded focus on controlling East Maui water since it bought 41,000 acres of ag land in November 2018.

US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.

The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a New York-based asset manager with expertise in forestry, agriculture, and emerging markets, announced it had completed the sale of the Kaiuroo aggregation to RFM for an undisclosed sum.

Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia

US private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners, which owns significant farmland assets in Australia, says farmland investing is going strong, both among domestic and foreign investors

Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014

A US institutional investor has awarded a US$50m mandate to Australian sustainable farmland manager Kilter Rural to invest in agriculture and water assets.