The Pension Fund has made an initial commitment to Nuveen’s flagship Global Timberland strategy, with the potential for further allocations in both forestry and farmland.

Possible plans to develop large-scale agriculture in Suriname have sparked backlash from Indigenous communities and others who are concerned about deforestation of the Amazon and the fate of ancestral territories.

The strategy for Lombard Odier is to create nature-based investment assets by deploying capital into monoculture coffee plantations near forests and to re-forest them, creating shaded, biodiverse agroforests.

Mirova, affilié de Natixis Investment Managers, annonce le lancement de Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2 (MSLF2), un fonds basé sur une stratégie de gestion durable des terres en Amérique Latine, en Afrique et en Asie

The funding agreement secured with a British Petroleum subsidiary for US$2.5 million will support the planting and development of 5,000 ha of degraded land in Sierra Leone

Plusieurs villages en République démocratique du Congo réclament leurs terres suite aux accords signés entre leurs ancêtres et la Société Jules Van Lancker (JVL) pendant époque coloniale

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.

Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.

Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania

Between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.

Grupo Socfin han causado la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana con el avance de los monocultivos de palma aceitera y caucho.

« Les accaparements de terre sont une grande source de changement climatique en Afrique », rappelle à RFI Wisdom Koffi, un militant ghanéen

Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Local farmers say that their wells have dried up since since an Emirati alfalfa farm moved in.

L'Association des Femmes Riveraines d'Edéa (AFRISE), au Caméroun, a recueilli 316 signatures de soutien dans sa lutte face à la Socapalm, du groupe Socfin

Bloomberg exposé on Frank Timis' plan to turn Les Fermes de la Teranga (ex-Senhuile) into a major source of animal feed for the Gulf States and the implications for Dakar's water supply

The increased need for cropland would result in “a race for prime spots”, especially in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.

Over the last three years, Australia’s agriculture and farmland have been in high demand for institutional investors in Canada searching for diversification and sustainability.

farming communities from across Latin America to Suriname with the plan of starting a series of agriculture projects.

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

Une victoire d'étape pour les 145 plaignants camerounais dans leur action en justice contre la Socapalm (Société camerounaise de palmeraies) et sa société-mère Socfin. Avec en toile de fond, la question du rôle du groupe français Bolloré.

An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry for carbon credits has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

When Dominion Farms Ltd pulled out from the Yala Swamp, residents hoped to get their lands and water back. But the lands were signed over to a bank that then transferred it to a sugar cane plantation company on a 99 year lease.

New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.

For villagers whose ancestral lands have been lost to the expansive reach of Socapalm’s plantations, the passage of time has failed to bring about the restitution they so desperately seek.

RRG Nature Based Solutions LLC has so far acquired lands for carbon farming projects in Morocco and Colombia.

Earthworm Foundation visited the plantations run by Socfin’s subsidiaries, one in Liberia and the other in Cameroon, where communities and local and international organizations had raised serious allegations of sexual harassment, land grabs, pollution and unfair labor practices.

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.

Institutional investors, large corporates and big family operators are expected to dominate demand for prime farmland this financial year as smaller farmers’ buying power takes a hit from higher interest rates, lower profits.