Water Asset Management has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated land across Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada as well as pending deals in New Mexico and Texas.

The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries

The Agriculture Minister of the German state of Brandenburg wants to enact a new law to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.

A holding brasileira J&F paga US$ 2,64 bilhões para a indonésia Paper Excellence, recuperando o controle total da Eldorado Brasil Celulosa e pondo fim há 8 anos da maior briga empresarial do Brasil. Uma das alegações para anulação da compra foi a falta de autorizações do Incra e do Congresso Nacional para assumir terras no país, exigência da Lei de acesso à terras por estrangeiros.

Cameroonian villagers protesting on March 25 against plantation company Socapalm's replanting of oil palm trees on disputed land were dispersed with tear gas by local law enforcement.

How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests

Japan's Sojitz is collaborating with Vinamilk and Vilico to invest in a 10,000 cattle farm and beef processing and distribution facilities.

Findings from the Federal Government’s latest annual Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Register released last week show the total area of ag land with a level of offshore ownership has fallen just 0.3 percent from 47.7 million hectares to 47.56m ha last year.

Indonesia's new president is literally flooding Papua with new military troops to provide security at a 2 million-hectare food plantation being carved out of jungle outside of Merauke.

Paghimutad investigates the social and environmental costs of the controversial 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation owned by construction firm Consunji in Candoni town of Negros Occidental.

"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."

Une enquête du Comité d’éthique du fonds de pension norvégien, actionnaire du groupe Bolloré, sur les opérations de Socfin au Cameroun imputent de graves méfaits à ce mastodonte de l’agro-industrie qui contrôle Socapalm et Safacam.

Os movimentos denunciam que o mercado de carbono e o avanço da produção de energias tidas como renováveis incentiva a especulação fundiária por corporações nacionais e transnacionais, levando a mais violência no campo. O enfrentamento à crise climática, afirma a Carta, não será eficaz sem democratização da terra e promoção da agroecologia.

Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.

Two prominent union leaders who were not present when the Salala Rubber Corporation buildings were set on fire have been jailed as retaliation for their efforts to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for the plantation’s contract workers.

Les riverains du village Apouh, au Cameroun, n’entendent pas reculer sur le replanting annoncé de la Socapalm, tant qu’ils ne seront pas rentrés dans leurs droits.

Earthworm investigators told Mongabay they were shocked by some of their findings of sexual harassment and gender-based violence on Socfin's plantations. "If they don’t make progress on these issues, we would stop working with them, as that’s our mission as a foundation.”

The alleged plan for the sale of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) by its parent company Socfin, has raised concerns among civil society organizations and communities affected by the operations of the company amid the ongoing lawsuit for forcefully taking local community land to extend their rubber plantations.

“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.

Le Sahara algérien est aussi en passe de devenir le grenier du pays grâce à l’essor de nombreuses filières agricoles -- et des investissements saoudiens, italiens, qataris et turques.

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.

Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.

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

Mientras el mundo recorre un camino para analizar los flujos de inversiones, en Argentina se desarma uno de los pocos casos de corrimiento del velo societario, que permite indagar sobre los capitales que controlan la tierra.

«Les investisseurs potentiels ont raison de douter des projets de l’entreprise, qui sont à la fois extravagants et néfastes pour les communautés locales», assène le porte-parole de la Convergence globale des luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau en Afrique de l’Ouest, Massa Koné.

The case stems from accusations lodged by the Djiboutian Ambassador in 2018, asserting that Karuturi neglected to meet the terms of agricultural agreements signed in 2011 and 2012 for activities in Ethiopia.

After the Ondo State government allocated SAO Agro thousands of hectares in the Oluwa Forest Reserve for an oil palm plantation, it moved into the forest with full force and left trails of blood and devastation.

The fund's targeted niche strategy is to buy smaller farms, as it views this particular segment as a pocket of opportunity – too large for non-institutional scale farmers, and too small for corporate scale investors.

A World Bank Group entity has agreed to a settlement to end a case alleging that it is liable for financing a notorious palm oil company’s violent land-grabbing campaign in Honduras