The world's biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farmed on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.

A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.

The transferability of land, along with the liberalisation of agriculture and finance the Bank and IMF have pushed on Global South states, have facilitated investment in agribusiness and driven the financialisation of national agricultural sectors.

Steve Dyer is executive director of Semper Fund Management, a $100M company that was founded in 2019 with partner Ciro Echesortu, former CEO of Louis Dreyfus Company, to seize the unique opportunity in US farmland investment.

Veripath Farmland Partners has brought its total acreage under management to approximately 120,000 acres through its latest acquisition of 1,246 acres of farmland in the Province of Alberta.

The World Bank’s independent watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), has finalized its investigation into a complaint filed five years ago, alleging grave human rights violations by communities living near the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia.

Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.

The Qatari agricultural company plans to inaugurate a farm that extends over 100,000 hectares and produces 200,000 tonnes of powdered milk annually.

The Butler Valley leases terminated by Arizona's governor only amount to about one quarter of Fondomonte’s total farm holdings in Arizona prior to October. Besides the 3500 acres that the company leased from the state, it privately controls almost 10,000 acres more further south and closer to Vicksburg.

Foreign ownership of American land has gained a lot of buzz lately, but senior staff attorney and professor with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, Fran Miller says more attention should go to domestic corporate ownership.

In a move to bolster Bahrain’s agri-food sector and address food security challenges, Mumtalakat, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, yesterday announced the establishment of the Bahrain Food Holding Company.

Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.

In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

Haishan Group, a private Beijing-based construction firm with farming operations in Angola, has announced its involvement in the construction of a 300-hectare real estate and fishery industrial park featuring aquaculture, seafood processing, and feed production facilities.

Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

A new study identifies around 18m hectares of land in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC that have been acquired in large-scale deals for logging, intensive agriculture, fossil-fuel extraction and mining.

At least 30 residents have been charged by provincial court in Cambodia for allegedly illegally occupying state land. The detention stems from an incident when authorities mounted a mass crackdown during a clash over a long-disputed land. The authorities said the land belonged to a rubber company called Seladamex, having received an economic land concession (ELC) from the state.

A Saudi dairy company that once pumped water through a lease on local farmland in far west Arizona has officially ceased operations.

The Company intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone and will transfer the same model to Ghana and Liberia and other countries across Africa, where approximately 90% of land suitable for restoration is held by smallholders.

Klimat X intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone beyond the 57,000 ha that have been secured to date to at least 100,000 hectares and will transfer the same model to other countries across Africa, starting in Ghana and Liberia

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price

“The Emiratis are farming and have withdrawn so much water from the ground that the entire town of Wenden has sunk by four feet,”

The largest landowners in Serbia are Matijevic Meat Industry, Al Dahra (UAE), Delta Holding, Almex, Login EKO, Coric Agrar, Mile Blagojevic, Elite Agro (UAE), Al Rawafed (UAE) and Nicko, Forbes Serbia reports

While farmers across Europe protest high costs and foreign competition, agribusiness investors continue to fortify their positions in the Spanish and European agricultural sector.

A private equity farming giant with more than 1,500 acres of land in Fresno and Tulare counties and 8,600 acres statewide has declared bankruptcy.

A Strategic Investment Partnership Agreement was formalized in Qatar between Dinara Group Holding and Qatar National Enterprises which will upscale Dinara's dairy, meat and crop farms and erect additional dairy farms

New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.

The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize